SOUTH AFRICA

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.

Images and video from the scene shows one of the train carriages in flames, as people were evacuated from the area.

Two people have died while attempting to climb South Africa's Table Mountain. The accident left hundreds stranded at the summit.

Actor Richard E Grant has been robbed at a cash machine in South Africa while on holiday with his family for Christmas.

Parlaympian star Oscar Pistorius files papers at South Africa's Constitutional Court to appeal increased murder sentence, which Supreme Court doubled from six to 13 years.

A water-based traditional "healing" ceremony ended in tragedy on Friday (15 December) after a teenager and a 27-year-old man both drowned while taking part.

The two clear front-runners are Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former chair of the African Union Commission and Zuma's ex-wife.

Zuma is finishing his second and final term as ANC leader, and whoever follows him will likely be elected South Africa's next president in 2019.

Oscar Pistorius injured in prison brawl for 'spending too long on phone', 10 days after Supreme Court more than doubled his prison sentence for murder Reeva Steenkamp

The 28-year-old man, who cannot be named due to legal reasons, faces some 67 charges in total.

Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first ever human-to-human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky on 3 December 1967.

The incident, which happened in the town of Umhlanga, came days before South Africa marks 16 days of Activism for no violence against women and children.

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has increased Oscar Pistorius' sentence from 6 to 13 years for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp.

France have controversially been named as the hosts for the 2023 Rugby World Cup after beating leading candidates South Africa in the ballot.