An underground fire has engulfed a platinum mine in South Africa, claiming the lives of four people.

University students in South Africa have held demonstrations against government plans to raise tuition fees for next year.

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in South Africa's port city of Cape Town to protest against the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and its mass death sentences.

Army troops are going to be deployed in major cities across South Africa to prevent attacks against the immigrants in what could be seen as the last resort to rein in the recent spate of xenophobic violence which has claimed several lives.

South African police have arrested over a dozen people following a wave of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in the eastern coastal city of Durban.

South African authorities have arrested a teenage girl, who was planning to leave the country with the intention of joining the ranks of the ISIL Takfiri militant group in Syria.

South Africa’s Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane has died in a car accident, Johannesburg confirms.

All 486 South African miners trapped after a fire outbreak at a gold mine have been brought to safety, a source says.

South Sudan’s rebels have accused the government in Juba of violating the recent ceasefire deal aimed at ending hostilities in the country.a

South Africa has signed a deal on nuclear energy cooperation with China to expand its power supply system following similar agreements with Russia and France.

The mayor of Cape Town has suspended plans for the South African legislative capital to hold the annual Nobel summit over allegations of a government refusal to grant visa to the Dalai Lama.

South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, has been found guilty of culpable homicide for shooting dead his partner.

South Africa’s former Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has been accused of being involved in the killing of 34 mineworkers at Marikana in 2012.

South African Justice Minister Jeff Radebe says his country is not a battleground for foreign nations after the expulsion of three Rwandan diplomats suspected of masterminding an attack on an exiled Rwandan general’s home in Johannesburg.

South Africa's top platinum mining firm Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) is seeking possible jail sentences for those leading an ongoing strike over wage.

South African government mediators say wage talks between a mining union and three major platinum producers have been adjourned until next week.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council have called on South Sudan's president to free several political detainees who are at the center of efforts to begin a truce in the African country.

Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has hailed late Nelson Mandela’s commitment to the Palestinian cause.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he will miss his “dear friend” Nelson Mandela, “a man of courage, principle, and unquestionable integrity.”

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has offered his heartfelt condolences to the South African government and nation over the passing of country’s former president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.