Heavy flooding has left at least 50 people dead and hundreds homeless in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province as residents continue to battle adverse weather conditions that have plagued the country since mid-December, authorities said Friday.
A fire caused by a lightning strike killed seven people -- including a 4-year-old child -- at a nursery school Christmas party in South Africa, a government minister said Saturday.
A lightning strike killed seven people -- including a 4-year-old child -- at a nursery school Christmas party in South Africa, a government spokeswoman said Saturday.
A nationwide strike of South African government workers is threatening the country. Richard Quest addresses the issue.
Six weeks ago South Africa was basking in the afterglow of hosting a successful soccer World Cup that lawmakers boasted would add millions of dollars to the national economy.
Public sector workers went on strike across South Africa Tuesday, closing schools, putting a crimp in hospital staffing and wreaking havoc on a wide array of public services.
As many as 1.3 million public sector workers are on strike across South Africa. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.
In the Zulu heartland of South Africa, where more than one in seven people are HIV positive, a Zulu king is reviving the tradition of male circumcision in an effort to fight the spread of HIV.
Conservationist and author Lawrence Anthony owns a game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, but his love for animals stretches Africa's borders.
Inside Africa sits down with South Africa's first black female winemaker.
An intense fire at a South African orphanage killed at least 15 people, including eight children, and injured nine other people, authorities said.
Is the global health community in denial about the severity of the TB problem?
Violence against foreigners in South Africa forces them into makeshift refugee camps in Johannesburg.
South Africans protesting the violence against foreigners marched in the streets of Johannesburg on Saturday, carrying signs saying, "Stop the Senseless Killing," "Mr. Mbeke, Where are You?" and "Shame on Us."
Joshua Macabuag is a 23 year-old recent graduate of the University of Oxford's Pembroke College.
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