The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa’s Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies. Some land in people’s gardens, allowing a closer look at the thin brown markings on their wings. Those markings give the butterflies their name:…

South Africa has notoriously high levels of violence against women. The latest police figures show that 10,818 rape cases were reported in the first quarter of 2022. The country has among the highest rape incidence in the world.

Bernadine Bezuidenhout was so sick while playing for the White Ferns, her body started to shut down. But now she’s back stronger, with the help of a Silver Ferns legend. And she tells Suzanne McFadden how she’s found balance in her life, helping at-risk youth through sport.

Eddie Jones is expected to keep his England job, despite facing a two-week RFU grilling into his side’s wretched Autumn Nations Series.

England 13-27 South Africa: World's richest and best resourced rugby nation fails to win for the SEVENTH time in 2022 and players are booed off Twickenham by disgruntled fans

Jane and her teammates only missed out on gold after a narrow defeat to England in the final of the Masters World Cup in South Africa.

The latest rugby news stories and headlines from Wales and beyond at the end of the autumn internationals

The 13-27 defeat to the Sprinboks was passed off as being due to being second-best in the scrum by Eddie Jones

The Rugby Football Union is to investigate a dismal campaign.