President Jacob Zuma took a hard line on the ANC’s recent woes on Monday, setting the tone for the rest of the party’s five-day national general council. Zuma adopted a no-nonsense stance on public spats, the fight in the ruling alliance,...

The decomposed body of a baby girl was found in a packet on a river bank in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday morning, KwaZulu-Natal police said. She was believed to be between six and eight-weeks-old and had an open wound to the head, said Colonel Jay...

South Africa wants to be considered among the leaders of the developing world along with Brazil, Russia, India and China, its president said, pushing for membership of a grouping that has growing global influence. President Jacob Zuma told reporters...

Sudan said on Monday it was closing borders with Libya to protect travellers and traders from attacks by rebels, a likely reference to Darfur insurgents who have taken refuge in Tripoli. Sudan planned to block land crossings from July 1, said a...

A South African government official is proposing a complete ban on digitally distributed pornography. Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba has approached the country’s Law Reform Commission to ask whether a change in the law is...

SOCCER World Cup fever swept across the country as desperate South Africans queued for hours for the 500000 tickets that usually inflexible football governing body Fifa was forced to sell over the counter yesterday. About 50000 tickets were sold on the...

North Korea, denouncing South Korea for drawing up a contingency plan to deal with the potential collapse of the North’s government, warned Friday that it would cut off all dialogue with the South and exclude it from all negotiations concerning the...

he South African authorities have come under pressure to outlaw so-called “canned hunting” and have put forward a measure stipulating that lions must roam freely for two years before they can be targeted. Breeders have fought the new regulations,...

The viability of an effort endorsed by the United Nations to halt the trading of the so-called blood diamonds that have fueled conflicts across Africa is on the line this week, and the test case is Zimbabwe.

A South African newspaper has published what it says are e-mails showing local track officials authorized gender tests done in the country on runner Caster Semenya.