The 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been living with prostate cancer for nearly 20 years, reiterated his support for assisted dying in an opinion piece published on the Washington Post on his 85th birthday.

A look at what has sparked the biggest student protests to hit South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994.

An Asian bird species under threat for it's ivory-like "helmet" has gained extra protection at the Cites conference in Johannesburg.

A campaign is launched in South Africa calling for telecom providers to reduce how much they charge for internet services.

Treasures from pre-colonial southern Africa were suppressed because they contradicted apartheid's official history.

Anderson, who has been accused of hate speech following remarks against homosexuality, has publicly criticised South African leaders - including Gigaba - for allowing same-sex relations in the country. The controversial pastor has taken to social media, promoting his visit to South Africa as a "soul-winning marathon". Gigaba said this prohibition will be implemented in terms of section 29(1)(d) of the Immigration Act. This section affords the department the legal means to prohibit a foreigner who is...

He spends his day on his knees, reverently arranging and rearranging his books on the plastic sheets that serve as his sidewalk shop on a downtown bridge, as thoughtful as a fortuneteller turning over cards.

South Africa is the cheapest country in the world for foreigners who are looking to retire or relocate, according to the latest data from Numbeo and GoBankingRates.

Worlds apart and culturally different, what is life like in these two strikingly unique countries?

The Guidance and Navigation Control computer launched on 1966's Apollo-Saturn 202 mission, was the first of its kind. It successfully led a rocket in and out of suborbit, paving the way for the mission to the moon. After that kind of pioneering adventure, you might expect this metal explorer to be safely ensconced in a museum somewhere. But until very recently, it wasn't. Instead, it was languishing in obscurity—first in a scrap heap, then in storage in Houston, Texas.

The murder rate in South Africa, which has one of Africa's highest crime rates, has increased by 20 per cent over the past four years, according to the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS).

A South African court jails a woman to 10 years for kidnapping a baby 19 years ago and raising her as her own, in a case which has gripped the nation.

At least 100 people have been injured and 400 homes destroyed after a tornado hit the Tembisa township in the East Rand, government has said.

Most South Africans learn about rape, or the threat of rape, when they are very young – even if they are yet to have the words for it. Sexual abuse has become normalized. Though the country’s annual crime figures, released on Tuesday, saw the number of sexual offences drop by just over 5% to 53 617 between 2014–2015, most researchers believe this figure reflects only a fraction of actual that occur. The chances of rape convictions have proved to be scanter still.

Thousands of South African gold miners and their families can pursue a multi-million-dollar class action against mining companies over fatal respiratory diseases contracted at work, a high court judge has ruled. The decision opens the way for the current and former miners to sue about 30 companies for damages, after suffering silicosis and tuberculosis from dangerous underground working conditions dating back decades.

KINDERHOOK, NY — Meleko Mokgosi’s eponymous solo show, well installed at The School, Jack Shainman gallery’s outpost in Kinderhook, New York, will hit your sweet spot if you’re in the m…

A wine estate employs hundreds of ducks as daily pest control specialists, to the delight of visitors.

Ahmed Kathrada, who stood in dock at Rivonia trial, tells South Africa president to go as scandal mounts over government cash for private mansion. By Mark Townsend.

The following dramatic photos were taken by Hoopstad farmer Petrus Roux during a massive sandstorm in the Freestate, South Africa.

South Africa has banned the leopard hunt for the 2016 season - the first time in decades hunters with deep pockets cannot target the so-called "Big 5" game animals in the country. The temporary ban comes in the wake of a global uproar last year over the killing of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe by a US dentist. The decision to ban the leopard hunt, however, was driven by science, not emotion.