The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

Some of you might remember Vaughan Tomlinson, an illustrator and cartoonist from South Africa who now calls New York home. He has built a devoted following of nearly 100k fans thanks to his clever, one-panel comics that never fail to entertain.

Torrential rains and severe flooding across parts of southern Africa have killed more than 100 people in three countries, destroyed thousands of homes and caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of damage in one of Africa’s premier wildlife parks

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and uncooperative taxpayers. It is a tiny window on the regular frustrations of a…

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to extinction since 2016. Those that have joined the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s regional Red List for mammals at risk are: Lesueur’s hairy bat, the laminate vlei…

South African authorities have revised the death toll in a school bus crash to 12 children and announced the driver has been arrested and will face criminal charges

Flooding in Mozambique has displaced over 300,000 people, according to the Gaza province governor

A casual encounter in Cape Town turned awkward when Dua Lipa noticed a filter in a fan’s video.

As universities in South Africa prepare to admit a new group of students, thousands of young people from rural parts of the country hope for a life-changing opportunity.

Authorities in South Africa say a collision between a truck and a school minibus in Gauteng province has killed at least 13 children