Despite its historic importance, Sharpeville itself has remained unknown and its residents anonymous, yet they have a story ...

Analysis - On 21 March 1960 at 1.40 in the afternoon, apartheid South Africa's police opened fire on a peaceful crowd of about 4,000 residents of Sharpeville, who were protesting against carrying ...

Pistorius, who turned 37 this week, has been in jail since late 2014 for the Valentine’s Day 2013 killing of model Reeva ...

Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend ...

Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison on parole early next year, just under 11 years ...

A manhunt has been launched in South Africa after a mass shooting in which six people died, police say. Four suspects allegedly shot the victims in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, before midnight on Friday ...

In the decade since Oscar Pistorius pulled the trigger four times on his 9mm pistol, firing into the head and body of ...

Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a ...

Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend ...

Is it safe to self-drive in South Africa? The short answer is yes. There is little to beat the thrill of the open road, ...

Four suspects allegedly shot the victims in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, before midnight on Friday, initial information suggests. One of the suspects believed that one of the victims had his ID, dropped ...

Armed variously with guns, whips and tear gas canisters, security officers in several African countries have been beating, harassing and, in some cases, killing people as they enforce measures ...