South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

A United Nations official says two U.N. peacekeepers from South Africa have been killed fighting M23 rebels in eastern Congo.

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A Jan. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a large group of people singing, dancing and holding South African flags in an airport baggage claim. "South African firefighters landed ...

Besides Nigeria, Pedro’s is sold in Ghana and Britain, with Kenya, South Africa and France next on the list. For now, both distilleries produce only small batches, partly to emphasise that they ...

burning homes, and committing other abuses against civilians near Dilling in South Kordofan state. On January 13, the army attacked SPLM-N positions, briefly taking control of Hajar al-Jawad and ...

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The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...

Earlier, there were fears dozens or even hundreds more men could still be trapped. The South African Federation of Trade Unions accused the state on Tuesday of allowing miners "to starve to death ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

No other South African city made the top 50, with only Marrakech in Morocco (#32) and Lagos in Nigeria (#41) making the top 50. “Cape Town is a city built on its people’s passion, resilience ...

Part of the Southern Living team since 2017, Kaitlyn Yarborough Sadik is a Georgia native living in Austin, Texas, who covers a wide variety of topics for both the magazine and website, focusing on ...