The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

The Reds legend said his mam Mary only returned home from South Africa on Monday morning and reported she was "on the tear again"

A modern dating method has revealed the oldest Homo sapiens' footprints yet, placing bipedal humans in South Africa around 153,000 years ago.

As the team prepared to fly home from Cape Town after their 19-14 victory over the Stormers in the Grand Final, they were greeted by a South African choir

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to investigate U.S. allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town last year, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 South Africa has proclaimed a policy of non-alignment in that conflict. This position was placed in doubt when US Ambassador Ruben Brigety claimed recently that he had evidence that South African arms and ammunition were loaded on a Russian ship in December…

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown trendy — 9,000 tons exported a year — they've been cut out of revenues. Until now.

Scientists identified a track made by Homo sapiens on South Africa’s Cape south coast. 

The 62-year-old was arrested this week near Cape Town after 22 years on the run.

One of Rwanda’s most wanted suspect in that country's genocide has appeared in a South African courtroom holding a Bible