Argus / SOWETAN/THE SOWETAN/AFP via Gett JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— “September ’77, Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual, in police room 619,” go the opening lines of singer Peter ...

The number of people killed in a building collapse in the South African city of Johannesburg has risen to nine, emergency ...

A South African man named in a major police corruption probe has died after reportedly shooting himself at a petrol station.

Sept. 12 (UPI) --The South African government is opening an inquest of the death of South African activist Steve Biko in 1977. Friday is the 48th anniversary of Biko's death in police custody at age ...

South Africa's running community mourns the loss of Lukho Ruthula, a dedicated endurance runner, as heartfelt tributes flow ...

Nathi Mthethwa, South Africa’s ambassador to France, reportedly fell to his death from a room he booked – 10 days before – on the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile under unclear ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death, and it ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A toxic algae bloom known as a red tide is causing the mass deaths of crayfish and other ocean life on parts of South Africa's west coast. The environment ministry ...

FILE PHOTO: Souvenirs with faces of the late anti-apartheid activists and politicians of South Africa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A South African court has reopened an inquest into the death of ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— "September '77, Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual, in police room 619," go the opening lines of singer Peter Gabriel's famous anti-apartheid anthem from ...