The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

South African Sign Language is set to become the country’s 12th official language. Parliament approved a constitutional amendment in a bid to “promote the rights of persons who are deaf (sic) and hard of hearing”.

Meet the runners from Tamil Nadu who completed the 2023 edition of South Africa’s infamously challenging Comrades Marathon, covering more than 87 km in under 12 hours.

Milisuthando is a debut feature length documentary film by Milisuthando Bongela. Taking the form of a personal essay, it’s an intimate story about family and ancestors, about “inside apartheid’s experiment” and negotiating the complex world of post-apartheid South Africa.

A lawyer for one of the last remaining suspects accused of orchestrating the brutal killings during the Rwandan genocide nearly 30 years ago says his client will apply for political asylum in South Africa

This summer’s Fifa Women’s World Cup will be broadcast live in the UK on the BBC and ITV. All 64 matches from the tournament will be on free-to-air terrestrial TV with both broadcasters showing the final. 

There will now be at least one change to the Ashes line-up following the Test against South Africa last year.

Dr Patrick Randolph-Quinney was one of a team of experts who unearthed new evidence in South Africa that an extinct human cousin buried their dead

South Africa’s media houses rely too heavily on events like conferences, climate disasters and the release of scientific papers in their reporting on climate change. That’s a problem: it creates the potential for day-to-day issues related to climate change, like ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts, to go unreported.

There's plenty of rugby to be played before the World Cup starts in September