The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

Bell has spent much of the past year working on tweaks to stay more upright when she bowls, which has allowed her to swing the ball both ways.

God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End is a beautifully written and intimate book about the characters in an old age home in South Africa. To write it, anthropologist Casey Golomski spent seven years travelling between South Africa and the US. Both countries are grappling with implementing universal healthcare,…

A host of countries have taken steps to reform the terms under which people can access their retirement benefits. South Africa is the most recent. In 2024 it introduced changes that allow access to some retirement savings while ensuring that most of the money is still preserved for later.

South Africa’s military has enhanced border operations along the Limpopo River to halt smugglers and illegal crossings.

South Africa’s succulents – small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas – are sought after by an increasingly international collector market.

A gang of homeless misfits fight for survival in this dull reboot of the 1987 American horror film

South Africa paceman Kagiso Rabada has warned Australia that the buoyant Proteas will fight fire with fire in the World Test Championship final at Lord's.

Africa’s small-scale farmers make up nearly 80% of all farms in the agriculture sector. In South Africa, there are about 2 million small-scale farmers, predominantly Black and based in the eastern summer rainfall region of the country.

Having beaten India, Australia's next big Test ambition is to successfully defend their ICC World Championship mace in the final against South Africa at Lord's.