South Africa

What would happen if the water simply ran out? That’s the nightmarish reality facing four million people in Capetown, which may soon be forced to turn off its taps after drought and population growth brought reservoir levels dangerously low. Officials say supplies could dry up by mid April.

The party of the late Nelson Mandela will elect a new leader to succeed President Zuma – a man facing more than 780 counts of corruption. On the ballot are Mr. Zuma’s ex wife, who is a seasoned minister, and Cyril Ramaphosa, a veteran of the struggle who has become a multi-millionaire lover of fine…

Speculation is rife that Mr Mugabe might go to live in South Africa where there have also been protests against him today. Inigo Gilmore discusses the situation from Johannesberg.

Zimbabwe’s president has flown to Johannesberg after his wife Grace Mugabe was accused of assaulting a young woman in a hotel. Grace Mugabe attempted to leave the country, trying to claim diplomatic immunity.

There were cheers from ANC members of Parliament tonight after the South African President Jacob Zuma managed to survive a no-confidence vote – held, for the first time by secret ballot. But dozens of ANC MPs joined the opposition to vote against Zuma, who’s faced a series of corruption allegations and has presided over an…

The future of South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma now rests in the hands of MPs – and they’ll be allowed an anonymous vote. Opposition leaders said the decision to hold tomorrow’s no confidence vote by secret ballot was “groundbreaking”.

Former South African minister and ANC activist, Ronnie Kasrils.

The veteran anti-apartheid activist, Ahmed Kathrada, has died, aged 87. Like Nelson Mandela, he was jailed in 1964, following the notorious Rivonia trial, as a result of his activities.

A Christian youth camp leader accused of brutally beating public schoolboys was later charged over the death of a boy in Africa, Channel 4 News has discovered.

A South African appeal court finds the athlete known as the “Blade Runner” guilty of murdering Reeva Steenkamp after “an error in law” in the original trial.

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is released under house arrest one year into a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

There are calls in South Africa for an inquiry into the awarding of the 2010 World Cup after it is alleged a Fifa official took a bribe in the run-up to the decision.

South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma presents the findings of the long-awaited commission of inquiry into the massacre of striking miners in Marikana in 2012 – saying police tactics were “defective”.

A stowaway who fell from a Heathrow-bound plane was found dead on a shop roof in south west London, while another man is in hospital after surviving.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flies out of South Africa before a court decision on whether he should be arrested on war crimes charges.