The South African Sports Minister threatened a “third world war” if Caster Semenya, the athlete whose gender has been called into question, were banned from competing. Speaking at a press conference yesterday Makhenkesi Stofile responded angrily to...

With the 11-nation tour of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, America’s often testy relationship with Africa has opened a new chapter. Gone are cold-war politics of propping up dictatorships in the fight against communism. Gone, too, are the...

South Africa’s swine flu caseload has increased fourfold in two weeks, with 480 confirmed cases as of Friday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said. Most of the victims are young, but so far, no one in the country has died from...

Women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent after being told the procedure is a routine treatment for Aids, a lawsuit will claim. Forty HIV-positive women in Namibia have been made infertile against their will, according to the...

They came at night. Half a dozen huge, angry beasts trampled through the village, devouring anything edible and destroying everything in their path. In a matter of minutes, the small village’s harvest was gone — and the Zambian inhabitants had lost...

“He promised we are going to get back our jobs,” said Godfrey Goodman, a laid-off union bricklayer from this bustling township, offering up this reason for his faith: “I’m one of those people who raised him up.” Mr. Zuma must now manage the...

The international community now seems resigned to Somalia’s status as the world’s most failed state yet - almost unimaginably - the country is perilously close to a wider human catastrophe.6,500 Ethiopian and African Union troops are due to withdraw...

An organism that was discovered in a South African gold mine, nearly 3km beneath the Earth’s surface, has scientists

Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers.

After 15 years of black rule violent crime is pushing more Whites than ever out of South Africa. Large White diaspora, both English and Afrikaans, are sprouting up in England, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada. It is conservatively estimated...