South Africa

Attempts to rescue more than 200 miners trapped in an abandonded gold mine near Johannesburg are underway.

Only 12 illegal miners have been rescued after getting trapped in an abandoned mine in South Africa. Others prefer to remain underground than face arrest.

“The loss of Reeva… I will carry with me for the rest of my life”: Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius breaks his silence and speaks out, one year after shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead.

Family members of the late Nelson Mandela accept the division of his £2.5m estate. Mandela’s will was read out in public on Monday.

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The wing of a British Airways plane carrying 180 people tears into a building near Johannesburg airport while preparing to take off.

From Burma to Bulgaria; from South Africa to Syria – Channel 4 News brings you the top 12 foreign films broadcast in 2013, as curated by Foreign Editor Nevine Mabro.

Nelson Mandela is buried in his hometown of Qunu, following a funeral service attended by 4,500 people, at which he was praised for teaching the world the lessons of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Nelson Mandela’s coffin is taken from Pretoria to its final resting place in his hometown of Qunu, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

The African National Congress (ANC) gives Nelson Mandela a solemn send-off, as his body is flown to Qunu for his funeral on Sunday.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela’s close friend and fellow anti-apartheid hero, will not attend the former South African president’s funeral as he says he was not told he would be welcome.

On the road to Nelson Mandela’s final resting place in his birth town of Qunu, Inigo Gilmore visits a small town in the Free State where black and white are still divided.

Jonathan Miller met the late ANC elder statesman Henry Mkoti, who was locked up with Nelson Mandela for over a decade. Channel 4 News replays that interview recorded a year before he died in 2012.

In February 1986 journalists investigating reports that the jailed ANC leader was having a check-up at Cape Town’s Medipark clinic caught – by accident – the first glimpse of him for 24 years.

The sign language interpreter who sparked outrage in the deaf community says he suffered a kind of schizophrenic episode during the Mandela memorial, while the ANC confirms they have hired him before.