Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

Govan Mbeki spent more than two decades in prison for his role in the struggle against apartheid. As a leader of South Africa ...

Unlike Frederick Engels, I have never owned a factory, but like Engels I have been and still am a Marxist. For decades, I was also a capitalist in the ...

The South African government says it will investigate how 17 of its citizens were tricked into fighting as mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war after they asked for help to escape the conflict in ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government said Thursday it will investigate how 17 of its citizens were tricked into joining mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war after they asked ...

Have you seen the viral video online, where an African woman said, "We have over 1.5 million women and only 600,000 men. We need husbands from outside!"? The woman speaking was from Lesotho, a tiny, ...

South Africa triumphed at the Africa Cup of Nations in Ismailia, securing its place at the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026. In parallel, the International Hockey Federation led an intense institutional ...

Fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi has been named the Pakistan men’s One-day International (ODI) team captain, the country’s cricket board announced on Monday. The national side’s pace spearhead will ...

SINGAPORE – After a dominant 36-hole performance, South Africa did not look back, finishing eight shots clear of Australia to claim its first ever Eisenhower Trophy at the 2025 Men’s World Amateur ...

The first leaders of independent African countries were often known as fathers of their nations. Today Paul Biya, Cameroon’s president, is old enough to be the great-great-grandfather of some voters ...

WASHINGTON — In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show. Call it a beach ...

Anthony Diala works for the University of the Western Cape. He previously received funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. He serves on an Advisory Committee of the South ...