South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane visits South Africa's conservative rural areas nearly 25 years after white-minority rule ended, and finds that racism is still deeply embedded but there are also ...

Pieter-Steph du Toit, the formidable Springboks flanker, is renowned as a man of momentous deeds rather than words. But his ...

The Department of Basic Education must ensure that it rolls out the new policy in a carefully scaffolded way right up to ...

President Ramaphosa says the new statue of the king will inspire tourists to learn more about the country’s heritage and ...

Almost all of the votes have been counted in South Africa after Wednesday's general election. The governing African National Congress (ANC) has got just 40% - meaning it does not have a ...

In places like South Sudan and the Sahel, ongoing conflict has hindered families’ access to food for years. Across areas of East and Southern Africa, climate change has triggered harsher and more ...

South Africa took third place at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in the Ivory Coast when they edged the Democratic Republic of Congo 6-5 on penalties after a goalless draw at the Felix Houphouet ...

UNHCR’s South Africa Multi-Country Office (SAMCO) serves nine countries: Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, and South Africa. Together they host ...

South Africa wants to give every resident free broadband. Can it pull that off? Broadband has long symbolized South Africa's alarming wealth gap, as 7.5 million low-income South Africans are ...

South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe and to support ICRC objectives in Africa. We provide tailored capacity-building to National Societies, pioneer humanitarian-centred smart solutions and use ...

Sanju Samson blasts a 47-ball century as India clinch an emphatic win over South Africa in the first T20 international in Durban. What is behind the exodus of Economic Freedom Fighters members to ...