South Africa

Thousands of volunteers have turned up outside an abandoned South African gold mine to help rescue thousands of miners feared to be trapped deep underground. 

The African National Congress party has lost its majority in South Africa’ parliament for the first time since the collapse of apartheid thirty years ago.

The former Paralympian and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released on bail from prison in South Africa – almost eleven years since he murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

A movement accused of violence and xenophobia is targeting immigrants in areas struggling with soaring poverty, unemployment and crime.

South Africa’s president paid tribute to the anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu at his state funeral in Cape Town today, describing him as the ‘the spiritual father of our new nation.’ The pared back ceremony was attended by 100 mourners and was broadcast earlier today. He died last Sunday, aged 90.

From harsh lockdowns that have exacerbated inequality to the struggle to get jabs in arms. 

One of those speaking to parliamentarians today was Angelique Coetzee, a doctor in South Africa and chair of their medical association.  

The speed with which travel restrictions were brought in for parts of Southern Africa have left some British travellers unable to come back home. 

We spoke to a reporter with South African TV station ENCA, Masego Rahlaga, who was in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, where police were retrieving items looted from nearby stores.

At least 72 people have been killed in days of violence in South Africa, fuelled by long-running anger over poverty and inequality and sparked by last week’s imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma.  

In South Africa, six people have been killed and more than 200 arrested as violence escalates  over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after he was found guilty of contempt of court.

The South African president Jacob Zuma has reportedly been recalled by the top committee of his party after an all-day meeting which is still under way outside Pretoria. Although there has been no official word from inside sources say the process to remove him from office is now underway. Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum is…

South Africa is expected to finally learn if their president Jacob Zuma will resign or be forced from office tomorrow. The future of the embattled president has been in doubt for some time. But at an event in Cape Town marking 28 years since Nelson Mandela was released from prison, the ANC’s president and Zuma’s…

Former US Ambassador to South Korea, Christopher Hill. discusses the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where North and South Korea marched together under a single flag.