Alarm bells ring for South Africa
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On Monday evening Jacques Kallis made a comment about South Africa&#39;s bowling which was quietly forgotten in the general excitement surrounding his earlier century.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu warns that poverty in South Africa could explode into social unrest.
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African health workers aren&#39;t just being lured away by better salaries in rich countries. They are fleeing squalid and unsafe workplaces and staggering workloads.
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Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate.
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Injury-hit South Africa received unexpected support for the first Test against Sri Lanka here from the man likely to cause them the biggest headache.
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Southern Africa could be facing a heightened risk of malaria this year, the World Heath Organization warns.
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South African gold miners continue a war of the words.
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A decade after apartheid's collapse, the gold industry in South Africa provides a measure of the transition in a country critical to Africa's future.
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JOHANNESBURG -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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To secure a driverâs license, South Africans must navigate a bureaucratic process so daunting that it has set off riots.
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Flow of desperate migrants into South Africa intensifies as inflation and shortages worsen.
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The South African president's friends fear the writing is on the wall, writes Chris McGreal in Polokwane
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Striking public sector workers in South Africa warned Monday that government threats to sack health workers would derail efforts to resolve an increasingly bitter pay dispute.
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The match against England in Durban will be a huge test for South African cricket. With the knives already out after their defeat in Port Elizabeth, another poor performance could have far-reaching consequences.
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South Africa should be worried by the huge numbers of skilled white people leaving the country, the opposition says.
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Jacob Zuma, who survived rape and corruption charges to become the president-in-waiting of South Africa, has harsh words for Kenya and Nigeria, where recent elections were marred by alleged fraud, violence and disputed results.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9--President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure a worried South Africa that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.