The 94-year-old former president of South Africa is on the mend after being admitted to the hospital for the third time in fourth months earlier this week after a recurrence of a lung infection that hospitalized the Nobel prize winning in December.
The 94-year-old former president of South Africa was admitted to the hospital for the third time in four months late Wednesday night after suffering a recurrence of a lung infection which had the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the hospital for nearly three weeks this past December.
Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius have successfully lobbied a judge to relax the sprinter's bail conditions so that he can travel abroad while awaiting his murder trial.
A disturbing video of taxi driver being dragged behind a vehicle by uniformed South African police officers — because of a parking violation — has outraged even a country known for horrifying acts of police brutality.
A bloody cricket bat is at the center of a potential case against Oscar Pistorius in the alleged killing of his girlfriend of four months, Reeva Steenkamp.
South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears today after appearing in court to hear a murder charge that his family has come forward to dispute.
With as many as 10,000 on the loose after a massive flood, authorities and crocodile farmers on the hunt, with locals wrestling crocs to the ground and essentially handcuffing them.
The good news is that some of the 15,000 crocodiles that escaped after recent South Africa floods have been recaptured. The bad news is that there are at least 7,500 missing crocodiles still out there somewhere.
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South African police say they acted out of self-defense when they opened fire on striking miners Thursday, killing 34 and wounding 78, and while the government sets up a commission to investigate, the police chief is not sounding particularly contrite.
News cameras captured horrific images of riot police gunning down dozens of striking workers at a South African platinum mine yesterday, in a "bloodbath" that recalls some of the worst of that country's apartheid-era protests
Everyone's a critic, apparently. Displeased by South African artist Brett Murray's controversial semi-nude portrait of President Jacob Zuma, two men, a middle aged white man and a young black man, defaced it with paint Tuesday.
Apparently suggesting that the ruling party in South Africa is corrupt is fine as long as you don't make a mockery out of President Jacob Zuma's penis.
South African fast-food chain Nando's has had to pull a parody commercial it made spoofing Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe after its Zimbabwe franchises received threats from supporters of the leader.
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