Four years ago, when she found that she was pregnant by her former boyfriend, Choi Hyong-sook considered abortion. But after she saw the little blip of her baby’s heartbeat on ultrasound images, she could not go through with it.

The laughing young man has a perfect set of teeth, his golden incisors glinting in the sunlight. Suddenly he pops out a pair of dentures, revealing a gap-toothed smile, the four upper front teeth missing, a common sight among mixed-race Capetonians...

he rough 507 carat white stone was unearthed at the historic Cullinan mine – where the famous Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1905. A spokesman for the mining firm Petra Diamond said the gemstone found last week was among the world’s 20...

A controversial plan to make HIV testing compulsory in South Africa has been criticised by campaigners who argue it would breach patients’ human rights. Politicians proposed that anyone visiting a doctor would be automatically tested for the...

South African construction workers began an indefinite strike yesterday, halting work at stadiums for the 2010 World Cup in the biggest industrial action since President Jacob Zuma took office in May. The National Union of Mineworkers said the action...

A teenager was held prisoner and repeatedly raped by her father after tracing him via the internet to South Africa. The German-born man has been called the ‘Fritzl of South Africa’ after Austrian Josef Fritzl, who incarcerated his daughter...

Irene Khan, the human rights group’s secretary-general, was speaking in Harare after its first high-level visit to the country in a decade. The fact that she has been able to visit is of itself an indication that the political climate has changed...

Zimbabwe’s uneasy national unity government reached the 100-day mark on Friday having this week resolved some of the issues that have troubled it from its inception but with other disagreements awaiting possible arbitration by Southern...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won a parliamentary majority and is expected to soon elect Jacob Zuma, the ANC leader, as South Africa’s president. With more than 99 per cent of votes counted on Saturday, Zuma is...

With the world in financial turmoil, UN officials are drawing global attention to another global crisis, hunger, which they said affects millions daily and kills a child every six seconds.