The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

NEW DELHI: Shan Masood is expected to continue as captain for Pakistan in the upcoming home Test series against England. Babar Azam will also retain his leadership role for the white-ball formats during the tours of Australia and South Africa later this year.

The Pumas’ dramatic win over the Springboks on the penultimate weekend kept them in the hunt

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

Late snowstorms hit South Africa’s coastal areas over the weekend, killing two people and closing major highways

Land dispossession among South Africa’s majority black population remains a thorny issue 30 years into democracy. Labour law scholar Marthinus van Staden’s new research examines the historical relationship between land dispossession and labour control in South Africa. It explores how the systematic seizure of indigenous people’s land during colonisation and…

Africa reports 586 rhino killings in 2023, up from 551 in 2022, with poaching the main threat.

South Africa secured a seven-wicket victory over Afghanistan in the third ODI in Sharjah, avoiding a series whitewash on Sunday.

A motley crew of surfers, academics and fishers fight back against mining companies pillaging the country’s West Coast.

Lesotho, a small country landlocked by South Africa, has been struggling to make constitutional reforms since the advent of coalition politics in 2012. It needs the reforms to address political instability which has been a feature of the country for more than five decades.