The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

ST JOHN'S (Antigua): Legendary West Indian pace bowler Courtney Walsh has been removed as head coach of the national women's cricket team following the Caribbean side's failure to qualify for the knockout stages of the T20 World Cup in South Africa recently.

Recently, South Africans were told about an extraordinary escape story – they learnt that a convicted rapist, Thabo Bester, had been at large for a year after he’d escaped from a privately-run maximum security prison. In May 2022 the Department of Correctional services reported that he had burnt to death…

More than 800 couples walked down the aisle on Easter Sunday in one of the biggest mass wedding ceremonies in South Africa since the COVID-19 pandemic.

South African police say that a convicted murderer who faked his death to escape prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt

Bruce Haigh is being remembered for his lifelong work standing up for the oppressed, after dying in Wollongong on Good Friday.

Tunisia said on Saturday that it intends to join the BRICS countries bloc of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Mahmoud bin Mabrouk, spokesman for the pro-presidential July 25 Movement in Tunisia and pro-Tunisian President Kais Saeid, said his country plans to join the BRICS…

MUMBAI: Fortunes can change fast in the life of a cricketer. Ajinkya Rahane may be without an India contract-he played the last of his 82 Tests against South Africa at Centurion in January last year.

UAE Minister of Justice Abdullah Al Nuaimi held a phone call with Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, to discuss the ruling on the extradition request concerning Atul and Rajesh Gupta. The Dubai Court of Appeal issued its decision that the brothers, accused in relation to…

The Guptas, arrested in the UAE in 2022, are accused of siphoning state funds using connections with ex-President Zuma.