A year and a half after a wave of xenophobia raged through South Africa, killing over 60 people and leaving close to 100.000 African foreign nationals homeless, xenophobia has erupted in De Doorns, a farmers' settlement 120 km north east of Cape Town.

Human rights groups have claimed that the police attacked Pemary Ridge, an informal community in Durban, South Africa on November 14th, randomly beating people.

A report says the former South African Air Force (SAAF) pilot who was killed at yesterday’s Overberg Fly-In near Cape Town was a very experienced pilot with close to 16,000 flying hours.

A former military aircraft belonging to a private aviation company has crashed at an air show near Cape Town, killing the pilot, Dave Stock.

South Africa has remembered its war dead with wreath-laying ceremonies marking Armistice Day, also known as “Poppy Day,” in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

The American nuclear-powered attack submarine, USS San Juan, has arrived in Simon’s Town, South Africa’s main naval facility, for an unprecedented series of joint manoeuvres with South Africa’s submarine force.

South African media reported that a white South African woman was recently granted permission to stay in Ireland, writing she applied for the permit because she was at risk in her home country because of racial discrimination.

A group of 38 South African women, who are accused of killing an alleged rapist, has been granted free bail by the Magistrate Court in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.

South Carolina Department of Commerce data shows that not all unemployed workers receiving benefits qualify to receive unemployment to begin with.

South Africa's most respected investigative journalists, Shadi Rapitso is no more. She was held hostage and allegedly killed by her neighbour, who couldn't accept the fact she did not want to be romantically involved with him.

Chairman of the Makhonya Royal Trust, Zolani Mkiva, said on Friday that leaders will slaughter a cow preceding the opening showcase of the World Cup in order to bless the stadiums in South Africa.

Although the number of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Africa has dropped over the past year, the continent nevertheless harbors almost half of the world's IDP population. Of the 26 million IDPs worldwide, 12 million live in Africa.

When thinking of South Africa, many people think of crime, racial tension and governmental greed and corruption. Although these problems indeed exist and persist, South Africa is much more than that.

Groups in South Africa representing Muslims, local communities and Somali immigrants have rejected allegations in the media about links to terror networks or Muslim militancy.

South Africa has marked its 10-year anniversary of peacekeeping missions. At a military parade in the central city of Bloemfontein, President Jacob Zuma said the missions brought hope to the African continent.

The South African government has officially lost the plot. Instead of investing in poverty alleviation, job creation, upgrading the electricity network and solutions to other problems, Jacob Zuma's herd will spend $4.5 billion on high-tech fighter jets.

The measures being put in place to keep visitors safe at next year’s FIFA Soccer World Cup in South Africa will include the biggest command and control operation yet undertaken by the South African military.

The meeting of DIVERSITAS in Capetown, South Africa this week will be highlighting the world's failure to protect the environment and all the species of life existing on the Earth.

The Second Diversitas Open Science Conference, “Biodiversity and Society: Understanding Connections, Adapting to Change” opened today in Cape Town, South Africa. It runs through Friday the 16th of October.

Che Guevara’s children have arrived on a two-week lobby campaign to drum up support for releasing five convicted Cuban spies held in America.