South African police arrest more than 120 after gang-rape of eight women
Dozens of zama-zamas – illegal miners from other countries – now being held in crime crackdown following music video shoot attack Dozens of men detained...
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Over 80 men accused of raping eight women appear in South African court
Crew filming music video at abandoned mine in Krugersdorp was attacked by armed men, police say More than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes...
Lavrov’s African tour another front in struggle between west and Moscow
Analysis: Foreign minister seeks to win friends and influence people in countries where closeness can be traced back to USSR Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign...
Traces of methanol found in teenagers who died at South African nightclub
Cause of death of 21 young people at Enyobeni tavern last month still yet to be determined Investigators have found traces of the toxic chemical...
Calls for crackdown on gangs in South Africa after spate of gun attacks
Attack on tavern near Johannesburg in which 15 were killed was one of several similar incidents over the weekend Campaigners in South Africa have called...
South Africa bar shootings: four killed in KwaZulu-Natal on same night as 15 die in Soweto
Police investigating if attacks linked, citing similarities as gunmen in both cases said to have fired at people ‘randomly’ Four people have been killed and...
South Africa: 15 dead after gunmen open fire at bar in Soweto township
South African police investigate reports group of men arrived in taxi and opened fire on patrons A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto...
Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought
Fossils from South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relatives The fossils of...
22 people found dead in South African nightclub
Police in southern city of East London launch investigation and officials rule out stampede Police forensic teams in South Africa are investigating the deaths of...
Widow of man killed in Libya accuses South Africa of ‘silence’ in hunt for his body
The South African government sent Anton Hammerl’s passport to his widow in 2016 but has refused to say how it came to have it The...
