Leaders from at least 91 countries gathered along with tens of thousands of South African citizens to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg's FNB stadium. Undeterred by a constant downpour, the crowds, which included four U.S. Presidents, celebrated Mandela's life through speeches, dancing, and music.
Though "authentic" tourism experiences will always carry a whiff of the ridiculous, a case can be made that visiting a country's slums does have some redeeming side effects. Unless you're visiting fake slums built inside a luxury resort.
Tourists on safari at South Africa's Kruger National Park who thought they were witnessing the harsh realities of nature when they spotted a herd of impalas being chased down by two hungry cheetah were left "dumbstruck" when one of the impalas decided to break the rules by diving out of harm's way straight into one…
South African President Jacob Zuma said today that 94-year-old Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment but still in critical condition. Mandela has been hospitalized for weeks as he battles a lung infection.
"OK we have a whole bunch of baboons inside this house," said Howard Fyvie as he and Kyle Peters watched a troop of baboons enter their neighbors home in Betty's Bay, South Africa and ransack the joint like a bunch of goddamn animals.
Nelson Mandela was readmitted to the hospital just before midnight local time due to a recurring lung infection. The former South African President spent over two weeks in the hospital this past December, undergoing treatment for a lung infection and gallstones.
A swarm of bees descended on a group of young children who were on a field trip to a "bunny park" near Johannesburg on Friday. The children were waiting to be loaded onto their school bus after visiting the park when they were attacked by the angry bees.
As Europe's horse-meat scandal widens to include what seems like every single food product on the continent, South Africa is ready to get in on the fun too: according to an academic study, South African meat processors been mislabeling their meat projects, adding donkey, goat, and water buffalo meat to their "beef"…
In a bizarrely lengthy ruling—the reading of which took nearly two hours, most of which was devoted to summary of the evidence and of South African law—Magistrate Desmond Nair granted bail to paralympic medalist Oscar Pistorius, who has been charged with premeditated murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, law…
Paralympic champion and accused murderer Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom through a statement today that he "had no intention" of killing his girlfriend, the law student and model Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot to death on Valentine's day—contradicting the accusations of prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who at the same…
Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter who last year became the first-ever double amputee to run in the Olympic games, was arrested and charged with murder in Pretoria today after allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The Rakwena Crocodile Farm in northern South Africa has reportedly managed to capture about 7,500 crocodiles that went missing after a flood threat forced the owner to open the gates, but just as many remain on the loose.
A Johannesburg resident was still in intensive care today — several days after being gored by a rhino while on a game drive through the Aloe Ridge nature reserve in Muldersdrift.
Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius made Olympics history today as the first double amputee runner to compete. He also advanced to the semifinals, so take that, two-legged runners.
Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first post-Apartheid president and the man lovingly referred to by his compatriots as Tata Madiba, turns 94 years young today.
Ever watch the long-running South African soap opera Generations on the Africa Channel? You should, because it's wild on the ears.
Dolce & Banana, a Cape Town jewelry shop that sells beaded necklaces to tourists, has been slapped with a trademark infringement lawsuit from none other than Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana. South African craft enthusiast Mijou Beller has since changed the name of her store to "...And Banana." She says she…
Beloved former South African president Nelson Mandela was hospitalized in Pretoria, according to a statement from current president Jacob Zuma.
In this helmet-cam vid, a Good Samaritan interrupts his motorbike ride around Gautang, South Africa to save a thoughtless calf who had ingested too many shots of Fernet (or whatever cows drink) during the previous night's "Calves' Night Out" festivities and drunkenly wandered into a canal. The biker's rescue mission…
Have you ever been waiting patiently to cross the street, then when it's finally your turn, there's some jerk riding a bike down the middle of the road and you wish you could just run out there and ram right into him but you don't, of course, because then you'd be injured and/or in trouble? Well, this South African…
