20120523 AFP A South African court convicted a black farmworker Tuesday of murdering white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, but found the motive was financial rather than racial.
20120523 AFP Two men on Tuesday vandalised a portrait of President Jacob Zuma posing as Vladimir Lenin with his genitals exposed in a Johannesburg gallery, prompting the curator to take down the painting.
20120523 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress sought a court order Tuesday to have a painting depicting the president's genitals removed from an art gallery but two men took matters into their own hands by defacing the portrait with gobs of paint.
20120522 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's most famous township, Soweto, is getting its first state-of-the-art theater that could spark a theater revival in the area known for its apartheid-era works that exposed the horrors of racist rule.
20120521 AFP South Africa's renegade ex-youth leader Julius Malema received large and questionable payments from businesses in his home province of Limpopo, a newspaper reported Sunday.
20120519 AFP South African exports to Europe and other developed countries remain below their 2008 peaks while trade with emerging economies has boomed, trade minister Rob Davies said Friday.
20120519 AFP A portrait of President Jacob Zuma posing as Lenin with his genitals hanging out has sparked outrage in South Africa, but the gallery on Friday refused demands from the ruling ANC to take it down.
20120516 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's main opposition party called a march Tuesday to make a point about economic policy, but ended up facing rock-throwing counter-protesters in scenes that illustrated that democracy and traditions of political tolerance are still young 18 years after apartheid was toppled.
20120516 AFP South African police fired teargas during clashes Tuesday between the opposition Democratic Alliance and the most powerful trade union in Johannesburg, an AFP photographer said.
20120509 AFP Petty hunters, corrupt wildlife officials and Asian traffickers have all been snared in South Africa's crackdown on rhino poaching as special prosecutors battle syndicates feeding the trade in horns.
20120429 AFP A South African court on Saturday halted the roll-out of tolls on major highways around Johannesburg in the latest delay for the project which has met widespread opposition.
20120425 AFP South Africa's ruling ANC wants to close the book on renegade youth leader Julius Malema, but analysts warned Wednesday his expulsion could still rock President Jacob Zuma's re-election drive.
20120422 AFP South Africa's polygamous President Jacob Zuma on Saturday celebrated his sixth wedding in a second day of weekend festivities filled with traditional Zulu culture.
20120421 AFP A quirky South African budget airline said Friday it will offer a free flight to families with multiple wives as polygamous President Jacob Zuma ties the knot for the sixth time.
20120416 AFP The youth wing of South Africa's ANC on Sunday insisted suspended Julius Malema continue as their leader, in open defiance against an order from the parent body.
20120416 AFP Authorities seized assets of a nephew of President Jacob Zuma to cover debts to a security company that guarded now-liquidated gold mines he co-owned with a grandson of Nelson Mandela, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
20120407 AFP South Africa's firebrand youth leader Julius Malema defied his suspension from the ruling African National Congress, addressing a Good Friday church service despite his latest gag order.
20120403 AFP South Africa's Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on Monday announced a new strategy to attract listings from African firms after the Treasury lifted restrictions on foreign companies.
