As World AIDS Day approaches, activists and service providers in the non-governmental health sector have warned government that it will never turn the tide of AIDS if high risk groups such as men who have sex with other men are not brought into focus in...

African universities were key to remaking the continent, former president Thabo Mbeki said on Monday. “... Africa will overcome the challenges of poverty, underdevelopment and global marginalisation not because of its wealth in natural...

Low-paid South Africans who last year campaigned for Jacob Zuma as the “people’s president” now say he has betrayed them. After falling out with the unions, one of his main support bases, the soft-spoken man with a vibrant and...

Almost a million South Africans are already on lifelong antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and this number is supposed to triple in the next decade if the South African government keeps to its implementation plan. But the prospect of the government being...

South Africa’s largest opposition party said on Sunday it would merge with a small party but analysts said it was unlikely to pose a major challenge to the African National Congress in the 2014 election. The Democratic Alliance (DA) and the small...

Unions representing about 1 million South African public sector workers said on Friday they planned to stage a one-day strike on August 10 after rejecting the government’s latest wage hike deal. The government on Thursday raised its pay offer to...

South African wildlife authorities say poachers killed 152 endangered rhinoceros in the country so far this year, about 20 more than the number killed in the whole of 2009. The National Parks Authority says that the alarming escalation of poaching has...

A 78-year-old ailing French aid worker was executed “in cold blood” by al-Qaeda’s North African branch three months after his capture, in retaliation for a failed rescue attempt that killed six militants, President Nicolas Sarkozy said...

Ceremonies have been held in South Korea to mark the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. In Seoul, President Lee Myung-bak paid tribute to veterans and called for peace on the peninsula.

Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country. David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo...