The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

This year’s Rugby World Cup in France has all the ingredients to justify the hype with the potential for a European winner and a greater capacity for upsets

The two-year-old pup will be working in conservation.

Just as New Zealand had bounced back to be considered Rugby World Cup pretenders, the flaws and angst have returned

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I’m thrilled by the unpredictability that stalks this tournament – the top scorers will end up as world champions

The regional bloc CCAS, and the country's opposition coalition, have urged international partners to push for a rapid return to civilian rule. Also in this edition: In Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 48 protesters are reported to have been killed in the eastern city of Goma. And finally: In…

People desperate for housing in a country with sky-high unemployment have taken to squatting in squalid conditions in former office buildings that are rented out by criminal gangs.

Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa’s deadliest inner-city fires Pathologists now face the grisly task of identifying dozens of charred bodies and some body parts that have been transported to several mortuaries across the city of Johannesburg

The stage is set for a spectacular tournament.

Building in central Marshalltown neighbourhood was being used as ‘informal’ housing for some 200 homeless people

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 24 to attend the 15th BRICS summit, an informal grouping of five major emerging nations: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.