The Latest Breaking News from Pretoria

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilda to the capital Pretoria, lauded the European country for its assistance to Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Israel on Wednesday slammed as "disgraceful" the South African parliament's decision to downgrade Jerusalem's embassy in Pretoria to a liaison office

Oscar Pistorius shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead at his home in Pretoria, South Africa, 10 years ago. The Mirror has been given exclusive details of Pistorius’s life in Atteridgeville prison

South Africa and its neighbours were at the centre of a tussle for influence this week when top Russian and U.S. officials visited, offering a rare moment of leverage for governments on a continent more used to being buffeted by events than wooed.

Pretoria has refused to condemn Moscow’s invasion but continues to call for dialogue.

In tonight's edition: Opposition voices in South Africa and international critics of the Kremlin slam Pretoria's welcoming of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Also, the United Nations, Amnesty International and the European Union call for a prompt and impartial investigation into the killing of a human rights lawyer in Eswatini.…

Photographer Ernest Cole was born in 1940 in the Pretoria township of Eersterust, just before apartheid was formally introduced in South Africa in 1948.

Tigrayan rebels began handing in their heavy weapons on Wednesday, a crucial element in the peace deal signed with the federal government last November, ending the two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia.

Gosiame Sithole, from Pretoria, South Africa, claimed to have given birth to 10 children, or decuplets, in June 2021 - but public prosecutors found the birth didn't happen and that Sithole wasn't even pregnant at the time