Namibia's President Hage Geingob on Sunday urged citizens to take part in the debate over mooted land reforms, including the expropriation of land, in order to avoid chaos. The southern African country will hold a "national land conference" from October 1-5, for discussion of policies that will accelerate the land reform programme.

The woman, who is now recovering in hospital, had been declared dead following a road accident.

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A casual chill by the pool for a couple of tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park became an unexpected up-close moment with nature. The pair were filmed frozen to their sunbeds as three wild elephants popped by for a drink from the swimming pool. Another couple made the recording and told Newsflare it was one of the "most amusing sights we have seen in a long time".

Johannesburg-based newspaper City Press reported owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand (£16.7m) for the land, but that the country’s government were willing to offer them just a tenth of that at 20 million rand (£1.67m). A letter sent to the owners earlier this year had said: “Notice is hereby given that a terrain inspection will be held on the farms on April 5, 2018 at 10am in order to conduct an audit of the assets and a handover of the farm’s keys to the state.”

White farmers in South Africa are trying to flog their land as fears grow that the government is about to start a widespread campaign of seizures. Union bosses say a record number of properties are for sale but nobody is buying, making the properties effectively worthless. Agri SA union, which represents mainly white commercial farmers, has warned that such seizures will deter investment, cause job losses, and may rob South Africa of the ability to feed itself.

A 24-hour television channel dedicated to round-the-clock coverage of Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial will be launched in March, the South African cable provider MultiChoice announced Wednesday. The network will go on air just one day before the double-amputee Olympian “Bladerunner” faces charges March 3 for shooting and killing his 29 year-old girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year.

In a gripping day of testimony that could shed light on the athlete’s relationship patterns, Pistorius’s ex-girlfriend testified about his penchant for sleeping with his gun, and his fear of strange noises at night.

Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee Olympian, returns to Pretoria court for the sixth day of trial over killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius vomited in the dock and retched repeatedly and loudly at his murder trial Monday as he heard graphic...

South African Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius is standing trial for the alleged murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot and killed on Valentine's Day last year. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and denies murdering her, claiming he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door because he thought she was an intruder.

Text messages Oscar Pistorius sent to his model girlfriend show the track star was by turns controlling and extremely apologetic to the woman he would later kill. The messages, sent in January on popular messaging app WhatsApp, were revealed during Pistorius' murder trial in South African court.

Oscar Pistorius testified today that he didn't "purposefully" fire his gun four times killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, that the gunfire was an accident. Pistorius' statement came during the first day of a withering cross examination by prosecutor Gerrie Nel who tore into the Blade Runner's often emotional account of how he claims to have mistaken his lover during the night for a burglar.

His laser-like focus once brought him medals, but on Day 22 of the South African’s murder trial, it was clearly undermining his case—and highlighting his testimony’s inconsistencies.

Tokyo Sexwale's divorce got a whole lot messier late yesterday when the lawyer of his estranged wife, Judy, accused the minister of human settlements of attempting to blackmail her with allegations of using hardcore pornography.

Oscar Pistorius returns to the dock on Monday after a month of psychiatric tests to determine whether mental illness played any part in his actions on the night he shot dead his girlfriend.

The Olympic athlete faces four charges in the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp

The parents of Reeva Steenkamp expressed anger and disbelief on Friday after Oscar Pistorius was formally acquitted of their daughter's murder, insisting: "Justice was not served." Amid growing discontent in South Africa at the verdict, the Steenkamps criticised judge Thokozile Masipa for being too lenient on the athlete, who was instead convicted of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter, and granted bail.

South African officials say game rangers killed three poachers in the past week in an escalation of armed incursions into South Africa’s flagship wildlife reserve, where hundreds of rhinos have been killed for their horns this year. Paul Daphne, a spokesman for South Africa’s national parks service, said Saturday that poaching in Kruger National Park had traditionally increased in November and December before tapering off around the year-end holiday season.

A sequel to Nelson Mandela's 1995 autobiography Long Walk to Freedom is to be published next year.

There’s a war on now in South African cities, but no one’s calling it what it is. South Africans, mostly Zulu, are attacking shops run by foreigners, driving the aliens (mostly Zimbabwean, Somali, ...

Race will be one of the factors considered by Telkom during its controversial restructuring process, the trade union Solidarity said on Monday.

Paleontologists in South Africa have announced the name for a new dinosaur species, but they didn't have to do any digging to find the creature's bones.

Internet taxi firm Uber said on Monday it was providing security for its drivers in South Africa after verbal threats from other taxi operators in the latest outbreak of friction to hit the fast-growing company. Uber drivers in Johannesburg have been targeted by meter taxi drivers and a protest was held outside Uber’s offices on Friday, local media reported.

A commuter train crashed into another passenger train during rush hour Friday in South Africa's largest city injuring more than 300 people.

This is how ANC operatives sent encrypted messages to one another in the final years of apartheid.

"Be Jealous!" Is not something I usually expect to say to people outside my country about my home, but I feel this warrants it. :) A 300 metre-long water slide is due to be a hit in Cape Town this summer from the good people over at Slide The City.

Artist provocateur Bill Drummond achieved success with the KLF. But 'not resting on your laurels' is one of his artistic creeds as he embarks on a 12-year world tour.

South Africa's justice minister has blocked the early release of Oscar Pistorius, saying the decision by the parole board to free him was premature.

Asian markets have staged a comeback with US index futures after a selloff that wiped $2.7 trillion from global equity markets.

Sudanese security forces gang-raped women in hospital, shot and burned civilians alive, and committed other appalling acts of torture during two military campaigns in Darfur, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, urging international peacekeepers to do more to stop the atrocities. In a new report – the latest detailing repeated horrors in Darfur – HRW quoted women who were gang-raped, and defectors from the...

The top secret historic fossil discovery was unveiled at the Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng today.

Scientists have discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South Africa. The discovery of 15 partial skeletons is the largest single discovery of its type in Africa. The researchers claim that the discovery will change ideas about our human ancestors. The studies which have been published in the journal Elife also indicate that these individuals were capable of ritual behaviour.

South African liberation leader Steven Biko meditates on his life, just months before his death on 12 Sept., 1977.