20120730 AFP The man slips the plastic pouch of gems into his mouth, an illicit haul from the sandy deposits scattered among the mountains of South Africa's diamond coast.
20120728 AFP A South African court Friday convicted a second man of high treason in a white supremacist plot to kill Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of the country in a trial that has spanned nearly a decade.
20120724 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African president Nelson Mandela is pledging support for a global initiative to increase road safety for youth two years after losing his great-granddaughter in a car accident.
20120724 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's president says he won't fire the education minister over a scandal that saw thousands of the country's schools remaining without textbooks for up to seven months.
20120722 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African official says a bus crash in the country's southeast has killed 18 people. Three of them were elementary school children headed to a sports event.
20120721 AFP The Congolese Labour Party of President Denis Sassou Nguesso retained its dominance in the first round of legislative elections in results announced Friday.
20120720 AFP About 117,000 babies were saved from HIV infection last year under South Africa's scheme to prevent mothers from passing on the disease during childbirth, health official said Thursday.
20120718 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa says 281 of the country's endangered rhinoceros have been killed by poachers in the first six months of the year.
20120718 AFP Nelson Mandela, who turns 94 on Wednesday, still keeps a close eye on the outside world despite a two year absence from the public eye, his old friend Ahmed Kathrada told AFP in an interview.
20120713 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A freight train collided with a truck carrying farm workers at a crossing in eastern South Africa Friday, killing at least 19 people and leaving bodies strewn across the scene of the accident.
20120713 AFP South African scientists said Thursday they had uncovered the most complete skeleton yet of an ancient relative of man, hidden in a rock excavated from an archaeological site three years ago.
2012-07-11 Xinhua The South African government on Wednesday reiterated its support for Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's candidature for a top post at the African Union (AU).
2012-07-11 Xinhua South Africa and other BRICS members should prioritize the development of small and medium enterprises as a way of quick job creation to benefit communities and people," an Indian diplomat said here on Tuesday. "There is nothing more effective than the smaller and medium enterprises when it comes to job creation. Small businesses generate effective and real economic empowerment," said the Indian High Commissioner to South Africa Virendra Gupta.
20120707 AFP A South African newspaper cartoon depicting President Jacob Zuma as a penis drew condemnation Friday from the ruling ANC just weeks after furore over a painting which exposed his genitals.
20120704 AFP South Africa on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort for its candidate to head the African Union Commission one week before the bloc votes in what may augur a changing of the guard on the continent.
20120703 AFP South Africa has shut down a gold mine owned by one of the world's top gold producers, Gold Fields, after an underground fire killed five people, an official said Monday.
20120701 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In the six years he's managed a sanctuary for abused and orphaned chimpanzees, South African conservationist Eugene Cussons is from time to time called on to comment when an ape somewhere in the world attacks a human. Cussons says he always could pinpoint a moment of taunting or perceived aggression that could have set off the quick and powerful animals.
