Hundreds of farmers protested in Johannesburg on Saturday, urging the government to declare growing farm attacks "a crime of priority."

South Africa registered a record trade deficit of 21.2 billion rand (about 2.4 billion U.S. dollars) in October, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) announced on Friday.

The South African Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed the application by eight opposition parties to force National Assembly Speaker Max Sisulu to schedule a debate on a motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma.

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) in the South African economic hub of the Gauteng province on Friday announced it nominated Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to take over the leadership of the party.

South Africa's deputy president says he is "agonizing" over whether he would accept leading the governing African National Congress if he's chosen during the party's convention next month.

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday called on African countries to guard against illicit export of its capital through diamond trading.

South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu on Monday called for the lifting of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe, saying the embargo was not only affecting the country but the African continent as a whole.

A budget airline in South Africa says that it has applied for liquidation.

A fatal fire hit a shack late Saturday in South Africa, leaving three children dead and their parents hurt, a local emergency department said on Sunday.

PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete is expected to officially inaugurate the Arusha campus of the Nelson Mandela African Institutes of Science and Technology in Tengeru (NM-AIST), Meru District in Arusha region next week.

About 8,500 striking miners at the KDC East mine in South Africa were fired by the Gold Fields company on Tuesday, local media reported.

At least three persons were killed and 14 others injured in a bomb blast that hit a van carrying prisoners outside a prison in Johannesburg on Monday, local media reported.

South African police have arrested 40 striking workers who had seized a mine equipment at Kumba Iron Ore mine, a spokesman says.

Durban — An Inkatha Freedom Party member was shot dead outside the Ntuzuma Magistrate's Court on Monday, in full view of the police and television cameras.

Efforts to end a rash of strikes at South African gold mines have failed after the protesting workers refused the latest pay rise offered by mine owners.

Pro-Palestine activists in South Africa have intensified their campaign to prevent the sale of goods produced by the Zionist regime, Press TV reports.

A man has been set ablaze and another seriously wounded in clashes between South African police and striking workers near a mine owned by Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) company in the northern city of Rustenburg.

Enkanini — The Plaatjie family - like more than a million households in South Africa - lives in an informal settlement. But unlike most such households, the Plaatjies' shack is warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and it has an independent electricity supply as well as an alarm system.

The world’s biggest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), has fired 12,000 workers after they held a wildcat strike for three weeks at its mine in South Africa’s eastern town of Rustenberg.

A South Africa union leader has been shot and killed near a mine owned by platinum producer Lonmin, bringing the death toll for two months of violent strikes by miners in North West province to 47.