A major South African hospital chain and its chief executive have been charged after years of investigation into a human organ trafficking case that stretched from Israel to South Africa to Brazil, hospital officials and police said. Police spokesman...

In the windblown hills of the Eastern Cape, boys from the Xhosa tribe are in a hurry to be men. At 20, Siphelele Zweni was ridiculed in his village. They called him nofontyela, a non-man, who’d gone too long without his coming-of-age...

A South African girl who survived a criminal attack that shocked the nation was among those killed when a train hit a school van this week, a family spokesman said Friday. Liesel Augis was only six years old when she was raped, beaten unconscious with...

People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.

Public healthcare patients went without treatment. Schools could not operate. Police fired rubber bullets and water cannons at demonstrators trying to block roads. South Africa’s national civil service strike disrupted lives throughout the...

South African autoworkers seeking wage increases more than triple the inflation rate went on an indefinite strike on Wednesday, hitting auto production in Africa’s largest economy. The powerful National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa...

Eyewitness News has learnt of a shootout at Zindzi Mandela’s house in Athol on Sunday evening but no official case has been opened and police are refusing to release any details. Eyewitness News understands that three men armed with handguns and...

South African 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya has won her first race since being cleared to return to competition after underdoing gender tests. Semenya won the 800 meters in a modest time of two minutes, 04.22 seconds on Thursday at the...

BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in SA yesterday for a state visit. On Sunday, SA will officially hand over the keys to Brazil as the next host nation of the Fifa Soccer World Cup to be held in 2014. This event will take place...

Nigeria became the third African side to drop out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup when they were held to a 2-2 draw by South Korea at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Tuesday. The Super Eagles follow hosts South Africa and Cameroon in making an early...