The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

From US car factories to public sector workers in Nigeria and South Africa, strikes by trade unions continue unabated among the established sectors of the working class. In Detroit in the US, workers are resisting contract employment. In Nigeria they are angry over the rising cost of living and in…

Everything you need to know ahead of the Pool B clash

The Englishman is one of the officials at the tournament

South Africa face Tonga in their final World Cup pool game knowing a bonus-point win is likely to be enough to secure a place in the quarter-finals.

Scotland lost to South Africa in their first match but have since claimed big wins over Tonga and Romania.

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Duane Vermeulen will return to the field for South Africa against Tonga

GUWAHATI: Although they lost their first warm-up match to Bangladesh by seven wickets, wicketkeeper-opener Kusal Perera's injury will keep Sri Lanka more worried ahead of their opening match of the World Cup against South Africa on October 7.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Quinton de Kock was just 20 when he made his international debut for South Africa in a T20 International. A year later, he caught the imagination of the cricket world by smashing three back-to-back ODI hundreds against India. But it seems living life out of a suitcase has taken…

South Africa has the talent, experience and form to be the dark horse of the World Cup. With Quinton de Kock, Temba Bavuma, Rassie van der Dussen and Aiden Markram in the batting line-up, and Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jensen in the bowling attack, the Proteas have the…

Aziz Goolam Pahad, who has died at the age of 82, was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician and deputy minister of foreign affairs in the post-1994 government.