South Africa

The Springboks have now won the World Cup a record-equalling third time.

South Africa can become the first team to lose a game en route to winning the World Cup

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined in the welcoming dance upon their arrival in South Africa.

May is the latest in a long line of prime ministers who have evoked the potential of "Africa" for their own political purposes.

A panicked shark has knocked heads with a filming scuba diver off the coast of Durban in South Africa.

Thousands sign petition asking President Donald Trump to allow South African white farmers to emigrate to US after land seizure vote.

The attack, at the Dinokeng Game Reserve, north of South Africa's administrative capital Pretoria, occurred close to where a herd of elephants escaped last year.

As many as 30 ministerial changes were announced by South Africa's new president, Cyril Ramaphosa.

Foreign Office issues terror threat for tourists visiting South Africa after Brits are kidnapped.

Authorities have launched a manhunt to catch the assailants and the motive behind the attack is still unclear.

Ramaphosa was the only candidate nominated for election in the parliament after two opposition parties said they would not participate.

The South African president Jacob Zuma has resigned his position with immediate effect. He had been given a deadline of Wednesday by the ANC.

Jacob Zuma has quit as president of South Africa. He has been embroiled in a rape trial, corruption, an arms deal, using public money for his home and association with the Guptas.

Agents from the Hawks, an elite police investigative unit, entered the compound of the Gupta family in an affluent Johannesburg neighbourhood.

If Zuma rejects any instruction from his own party to resign, the matter could go to parliament for a vote on a motion of no confidence.

A man believed to be a poacher was attacked and eaten by a pride of lions close to Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Katie Hopkins claims she has been detained at a Johannesburg Airport and had her passport confiscated on grounds of inciting racial hatred.

The ruling party's senior figures hold emergency meeting with the South African president urging him to resign.

Johannesburg woman speaks of horror of witnessing family dog being killed by African rock python in bedroom.

Around 900 miners are trapped in a South African gold mine following a power outage blamed on a thunderstorm which brought down electrical lines.

Paediatrician Alastair McAlpine, who works with terminally ill children in Cape Town, asks young patients what they enjoy most during their short lives.

Day Zero - the day when Cape Town, South Africa could be the world's first major city to run out of water - is approaching.

Pero Jelinic dies in freak shooting as he turns sights on lion during South African hunting expedition.

After a battle with prostate cancer, the musician passed away in Johannesburg, surrounded by his family.

Staff at a funeral home in South Africa discovered the body of a stillborn child underneath its deceased mother, local media reported.

A lesbian couple who had been married for three years have been kidnapped, raped and murdered by a group of eight people.

Mike Gregory, 35, said he had an 'itchy waist, torso and hands' after £4,000 flight to Cape Town over the New Year

Protesters targeted six branches of the store in Gauteng province, South Africa, throwing clothes and tearing down shelves.

A pregnant woman raped and sexually assaulted at knifepoint left one of her attackers "severely injured" after biting his penis during the attack in front of her five-year-old son.

Men who robbed a house 22 miles north of Durban in South Africa have made off with cash and four mobile phones. Victims were tied up and locked in a bedroom while the thieves tore a safe from the wall.