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Johannesburg dates its beginnings to the discovery of gold in 1886. Its downtown, where skyscrapers tower over deep mines, was abandoned by business in recent decades, and squatters turned the office towers into high-rise slums. But now, as the city celebrates its 125th birthday, creative South Africans are seeing gold in warehouses and cheap office space, and they're revitalizing neighborhoods with galleries, museums, shops, studios, clubs and restaurants.
Tens of thousands of years before scientists had realized, our ancestors in what is now South Africa were making their homes safer and more comfortable with grasses and leaves we still use today, researchers said in an article published Friday in the journal Science.
Global Witness said Monday it has left the Kimberley Process, accusing the international diamond regulatory group of refusing to address links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.
A top appeals court has ruled South Africa's president acted improperly when he appointed the national prosecutor in a case that has been central to a debate about corruption at high levels of government and political meddling in the fight against crime.
Some questions and answers about the climate talks being held in South Africa's eastern city of Durban that opened Monday and close on Dec. 9.
The governing African National Congress pushed a bill through South Africa's parliament Tuesday to protect state secrets, despite strong objections from opposition politicians who included white conservatives and black nationalists who were enemies under apartheid.
One of the bronze sculptures stolen from the Johannesburg Art Gallery is worth about $16,000. Curators fear thieves sold it to a scrap dealer for a mere $250.
Recent violence in Myanmar shows how difficult it will be to achieve unity and democracy in the southeast Asian country, democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday.
More than a year after the owner of a string of South African strip clubs was shot and killed, police are still chasing his killer. Now the recent deaths of men linked to Lolly Jackson have added to the mystery.
The Rugby World Cup is about pride for some and bragging rights for others. For seamstress Malenna Ntsie, it's all about providing for her family.
South African artist William Kentridge is perhaps best known for his charcoal drawings and videos in which those drawings seem to dance.
There are no bars on the windows of his luxurious home, no heavily armed guards in sight. Yet Mohamed Bachir Suleman is, according to the U.S. government, an international drug trafficker.
Playwright Eve Ensler is a survivor — of rape, of ensuing depression and alcoholism, of cancer.
Weaker countries that fear being overwhelmed in a huge African free trade area will benefit from it in the long term, a development expert said Sunday as leaders of 26 governments launched negotiations to create the zone encompassing nearly 600 million people and a combined GDP of more than $800 billion.
From giant palms to mouse-sized lemurs, unique plants and animals are threatened on Madagascar as political deadlock drags on following a 2009 coup.
Peter Waziweyi is bouncing around the lush countryside of Mozambique in his 30-year-old truck, visiting his customers' maize fields and relishing the sight of their rich, ripening crops.
They found Noxolo Nogwaza's body in a drainage ditch choked with trash and high reeds. The lesbian activist had been repeatedly stabbed with broken glass, and beaten so severely with chunks of concrete that her teeth had been knocked out.
South Africa's national police chief stands accused of spending taxpayers' money unlawfully. A Cabinet minister reportedly used public funds to live in a luxury hotel and fly first-class. And this week, the wife of another minister was convicted of dealing drugs.
Angry demonstrators set fire to two government buildings Thursday in a central South African town where police beat a protester in an assault that aired on state TV and sparked accusations police were resorting to apartheid-era brutality.
Vimbeni Shembe, a leader of a major but divided South African church, died Monday. He was 77.
Mozambicans see Mohamed Bachir Suleman's glitzy shopping mall as a symbol of a modern future for their impoverished country. Suleman throws Christmas parties for the poor and gives liberally to the long-ruling party.
One of South Africa's most prominent and politically connected businessmen is taking over McDonald's restaurants in the country, McDonald's said Thursday.
Libya's ambassador to South Africa on Monday urged leader Moammar Gadhafi to resign, joining other foreign envoys around the world in rejecting his regime.
South African entrepreneur Noma Radebe's business plan is simple: Tell Africa's stories.
South Africa will spend more to help the poor, while offering tax relief and other pro-business steps in a country where nearly a quarter of the population is unemployed, the finance minister said Wednesday.
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