SOUTH Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday signed a new law which aims to provide universal healthcare, two weeks before…
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A WORKER has been rescued from the debris of a collapsed building in the South African city of George after…
SOUTH Africa’s top court was hearing an appeal on Friday to have former president Jacob Zuma declared ineligible to stand…
THE South African electoral commission has rejected a request to remove former President Jacob Zuma as the leader of the…
A MULTI-STOREY building under construction in South Africa’s coastal city of George collapsed on Monday trapping about 48 workers in…
SOUTH Africa’s scandal-hit ex-president Jacob Zuma has made a surprise comeback by running in May’s elections against his former party,…
SOUTH Africa’s former President Thabo Mbeki has vowed to remove “rotten apples” and “thieves” from the governing African National Congress…
MORE than 40 toddlers were taken to hospital in South Africa on Monday after mistaking rat poison for sweets. “Upon…
A SOUTH African court on Tuesday ruled that former president Jacob Zuma can stand in looming general elections, overturning a…
SOUTH Africa’s ex-Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been charged with 12 counts of corruption and one count of money…
SOUTH Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday filed an appeal against a decision by electoral officials barring him from…
NINE-TIME African champions, the Super Falcons of Nigeria, will open their training camp on Sunday ahead of the African final…
TWO people died and almost 2,000 were left homeless when fires engulfed hundreds of shacks in three separate incidents in…
SOUTH Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been involved in a car crash but was unhurt. A drunk driver collided…
FORTY-FIVE people have died in South Africa after the bus they were in plunged some 50m (165ft) off a bridge…
TROOPS from southern Africa’s regional bloc who were deployed to tackle an Islamist insurgency in Mozambique are to leave the…
MARKUS Jooste, the former head of the Steinhoff retail group that was at the centre of a huge corporate fraud…
A SOUTH African bank said on Wednesday a court had ordered a halt to outgoing payments from ex-president Jacob Zuma’s…
AN ELITE unit of South Africa’s police has raided the Johannesburg home of the speaker of parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, over…
MILLIONS of internet users groan as disruption continues in various countries across Africa. Outages have been reported in countries including…