According to The Sunday Times, former CIA operative Donald Rickard admitted to American involvement in the arrest of Nelson Mandela, who would spend 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa’s first black president in 1994.
A group of 16 young women in South Africa have been awarded scholarships by their mayor for remaining virgin in an effort to push other young people to be “pure and focus on school.”
Eight ex-policemen who dragged a Mozambican cab driver behind a police van and then beat him to death inside a jail cell were each sentenced to 15 years in prison, reports the New York Times.
Former track star Oscar Pistorius, convicted of culpable homicide last year in the shooting death of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was released on house arrest Monday, prison officials confirmed to the BBC. That’s one day ahead of schedule, and less than one year after he was first jailed.
A crash between two passenger trains in South Africa on Friday left more than 300 people injured, a spokeswoman for Johannesburg Emergency Services told the Associated Press. No fatalities have been reported so far.
My mama is 79. Wednesday night is her bible study. Just like Ms. Ethel Lee Lance, mama has her circle of church going elders—black women in their 60s, 70s, and 80s for whom church is home. Maybe even safer than home. Their pain was safe in the hands of this particular Jesus. Unshed tears from the Middle Passage were…
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir reportedly escaped South Africa in his private jet early this morning, just hours after a judge from the country’s High Court ordered authorities to prevent his leaving. Bashir has been wanted by the International Criminal Court for six years on charges including genocide, war crimes,…
The American tourist mauled to death by a lion Monday in South Africa has been identified as Katherine Chappell, a 29-year-old who worked as a visual effects editor on Game of Thrones.
Following the rules for the entirety of your lifetime can get tiring. But if there’s anywhere on Earth where you should definitely swallow your pride and just follow the rules it’s a tourist park where lions roam free. If not, one might leap through your car window and murder you.
A 33-year-old South Africa man says three women forced him into a car at gunpoint Tuesday, then made him drink an unknown, erection-inducing drug and raped him. They allegedly collected his semen in plastic bags, which they stored in a cooler. When they’d taken what they wanted, he says, they abandoned him in a field…
A giraffe being driven down a highway in South Africa died on Thursday after its head collided with a low bridge. Witnesses described the horrific scene and posted pictures of the giraffe taken just before the accident to Twitter.
Everyone knows heartbroken men are prone to irrational behavior. One scorned lover might show up outside his old flame's house, waking her with the very loud Peter Gabriel song that's emanating from his boombox; another might find his ex's new guy, stab him in the chest, and eat his heart with a knife and fork.
Cyclist Malcolm Fox was wrapping up a bike ride at a popular trail in Somerset West, South Africa, when three men, one of the armed with a gun, approached him. They took his bike, phone, car keys, and sunglasses, but left the GoPro camera mounted on his helmet.
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius will be suspended for at least a month so that the former Olympian can be assessed by a team of psychiatrists.
Rescuers have reached the group of workers who were trapped while working illegally in a South African gold mine, but most of the miners are electing to stay underground for fear they will be arrested if they come out.
On the eastern edges of Johannesburg, in Benoni, rescue workers are attempting to free more than 200 miners who are trapped in an abandoned gold mine, after it was being worked illegally for gold.
An elephant that attacked a car in a South African safari park in December, piercing a British schoolteacher with its tusks in the process, was put down by the park for behaving aggressively.
The first rule of Indigenous Fight Club is: You do not talk about Indigenous Fight Club. The second rule of Indigenous Fight Club is: There's nothing weird about resuscitating a knocked out fighter with a hand job.
South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela secretly traveled to Ethiopia and received paramilitary training from Israeli spies shortly before he was arrested in 1962, according to a memo that was reportedly just unearthed from Israel's State Archives.
Nelson Mandela was buried Sunday in the small town he grew up in, capping ten days of mourning for the South African leader and anti-apartheid crusader.
