In the first effort of its kind, a team at a South African university not only returns human remains to families but also provides a window into the world of ancestral San and Khoe people.

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.