The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

Scientists identified a track made by Homo sapiens on South Africa’s Cape south coast. 

The 62-year-old was arrested this week near Cape Town after 22 years on the run.

Timothy Engstrom is sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison over his part in a plot to import nearly 300 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the arm of an excavator from South Africa.

Partners in a struggling business who thought a broken excavator shipped from South Africa could solve their problems have been jailed over the cocaine inside.

Fulgence Kayishema was living under a false name at a grape farm in South Africa when he was arrested for ordering the murder of thousands of Tutsis in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

By Carien du Plessis

Mozambique's former finance minister has lost a last-ditch legal appeal in South Africa and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies

The recent furore over accusations by the US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, that South Africa was supplying arms to Russia despite its declared policy of non-alignment, has sparked a debate on whether the country’s arms control is lax, non-compliant and lacks oversight.

One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda’s genocide, a police officer suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people at a church nearly three decades ago, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a special tribunal set up by the United Nations…