South Africa’s ruling ANC suffers heavy local election lossesBlack voters in urban areas abandon governing party in unprecedented numbersFri Aug 05 2016 - 18:43
ANC control of urban politics under threat as South Africans votePolls show ruling party may lose control it has had in cities since democracy in 1994Tue Aug 02 2016 - 18:16
Climate change drives tribal conflict in KenyaWarring tribes, part 2: Church and charities ease tensions over scarce resourcesSun Jul 31 2016 - 18:53
In Kenya, scarcity and drought are driving two tribes to go to warThe Turkana and Dassanech tribes on Lake Turkana are fighting over shrinking resourcesSat Jul 30 2016 - 02:00
Shot Irish man recovering slowly in South African hospitalBill Brogan (68) discovered unconscious by wife and son in doorway following shootingThu Jul 21 2016 - 15:43
‘I had to take children’s HIV drugs because of the shortages’Shortage of HIV antiretroviral drugs hampering fight against AidsSun Jul 10 2016 - 14:00
Oscar Pistorius likely to serve less than six years in jailEx-Paralympic athlete avoids 15-year sentence usually given in South Africa for murderWed Jul 06 2016 - 18:18
IMF in search for Mozambique’s missing $2bnIreland delays €6 million aid package as secret and questionable loans go missingWed Jun 22 2016 - 01:00
Oscar Pistorius removes prosthetic legs in leniency pleaParalympic athlete attends third day of sentence hearing for 2013 murder of girlfriendWed Jun 15 2016 - 18:27
Pretoria high court hears of recent outbursts by Oscar Pistorius in prisonSouth African Olympic athlete is being sentenced for the murder of Reeva SteenkampWed Jun 15 2016 - 01:00
South African prosecutor seeks to appeal Jacob Zuma corruption rulingMove by the South African National Prosecution Authority has led to accusations it is protecting the presidentMon May 23 2016 - 17:25
South African gold miners allowed to sue mining companiesUp to 500,000 former and current miners contracted lung disease from the 1960s onFri May 13 2016 - 17:48
Much for inventors to learn from ‘please call me’ sagaThe trainee accountant who came up with the popular texting idea finally won his case by sheer persistenceSat May 07 2016 - 08:45
South African corruption ruling turns up heat on Jacob ZumaPresident may face 783 arms deal-related charges that were dropped in 2009Fri Apr 29 2016 - 15:22
Fire in belly as opposition square up to ANC ahead of electionCandidates make hay from corruption scandals that have eroded party’s support baseMon Apr 25 2016 - 01:00
Jacob Zuma launches manifesto and pledges to fight corruptionDespite discontent with leadership, most back the president as ANC faces tough electionSun Apr 17 2016 - 16:51
South African rugby still a black and white issuePressure mounts on coach Allister Coetzee to give more black players a chanceTue Apr 12 2016 - 20:53
South African president Jacob Zuma targeted by activistsOpposition failed to have ANC leader Zuma impeached for flouting the constitutionWed Apr 06 2016 - 18:20
Zuma survives impeachment vote in South AfricaMotion to remove president from office defeated as ANC MPs rally to leader’s sideTue Apr 05 2016 - 19:19
Calls for Zuma resignation intensify after Nkandla scandal apologyANC party backs South African president after court rules he failed to uphold constitutionSun Apr 03 2016 - 18:24
Calls for Jacob Zuma to resign after South Africa court rulingPresident violated constitution by not repaying taxpayers’ money used on his homeFri Apr 01 2016 - 01:00
ANC backs Zuma but will investigate Gupta allegationAs more politicians talk of a scandal, the African president’s support is dwindlingSat Mar 26 2016 - 01:00
ANC support under threat from Jacob Zuma controversiesThe SA president has agreed after years to pay towards the upgrade of his rural homeTue Mar 22 2016 - 01:03
Jacob Zuma rejects claims of corrupt links with three brothersThree Gupta brothers are alleged to have offered South African ministries for favoursThu Mar 17 2016 - 19:38
Record number of rhinos killed in Africa in 2015Slight reduction in poaching in South Africa offset by increases in Zimbabwe and NamibiaThu Mar 10 2016 - 14:35
Jacob Zuma hangs on in South Africa as opposition pressure buildsNo-confidence motion against ‘reckless leadership’ of president dismissed as ‘frivolous’Wed Mar 02 2016 - 18:45
Cape Town Letter: ‘Monkey’ comments spark debate on racismAngry debate on social media highlights worsening race relations in ‘rainbow nation’Mon Feb 15 2016 - 01:00
South Africa opposition rejects Zuma offer on upgrade costsPresident had outlined way to end dispute over near-€20m upgrades to private homeWed Feb 03 2016 - 16:48
Zimbabwe opposition hold secret talks on fighting Zanu-PFFormer party colleagues of President Robert Mugabe target 2018 electionsWed Jan 27 2016 - 17:37
African leaders roll back presidential term limitsRwanda’s Paul Kagame is latest president to alter constitution in order to stay in powerMon Jan 04 2016 - 01:00
Cape Town Letter: Mandela legacy victim of populist politicsIncreasingly divisive SA president Jacob Zuma in opposition sights prior to electionWed Dec 30 2015 - 01:00
Zuma appoints third South African finance minister in weekPresident forced to change tack after original sacking of minister sent rand tumblingMon Dec 14 2015 - 16:54
Jacob Zuma sacks South Africa’s finance minister without warningSA president faces backlash from markets and opposition parties over dismissalThu Dec 10 2015 - 17:19
China’s development package aims to counter western influence in Africa€55bn Chinese investment in the continent will come with with policy strings attachedMon Dec 07 2015 - 01:00
Africa-China summit focuses on deeper bilateral tiesChina is Africa’s biggest trading partner, says South African minister Jeff RadeFri Dec 04 2015 - 01:00
Targeting rhino poachers with GPS monitors and horn camerasA conservation group has developed units to protect rhinos, whose horns are worth more than €50,000Sat Nov 28 2015 - 05:00
South African drought gives a glimpse of what future climate change may bringAgriculture hit as country suffers worst shortages since the 1930sWed Nov 25 2015 - 01:01
Climate change is hot topic for Africa as temperatures riseA deal at UN conference in Paris is crucial for continent’s futureTue Nov 10 2015 - 01:00
ANC leaders ‘unable to maintain non-racial South Africa’Ex-president Kgalema Motlanthe says party’s MPs do not respect its own constitutionMon Nov 02 2015 - 15:41
Postmortems on newlyweds to take place in South AfricaJohn and Lynette Rodgers from Co Down drowned after becoming caught in a rip-tide in Plettenberg BayMon Oct 26 2015 - 15:51
Jacob Zuma backs down on third-level fees in South AfricaWeek of unrest ends in fierce clashes with police outside president’s officeFri Oct 23 2015 - 22:58
South Africa’s president to meet student leadersStudents charged at Cape Town court with public violence after protesters storm parliament on WednesdayThu Oct 22 2015 - 18:29
Claim Pistorius got preferential release deniedPrison authorities sneak Paralympian out of Pretoria facility in darkness to avoid mediaTue Oct 20 2015 - 21:13
Jacob Zuma’s decision to go dominates ANC conferencePresident’s announcement he will not stand for another term adds to concernsMon Oct 12 2015 - 01:00
Serious violent crime up for third year in row in South AfricaBeleaguered police commissioner Riah Phiyega under pressure as murders rise by 4.6%Tue Sept 29 2015 - 17:34
South Africa adopts strong anti-western stanceANC document allies country with China and Russia, in spite of economic riskMon Sept 21 2015 - 01:00
South African government loses appeal over not arresting Sudan presidentSudan’s Omar al-Bashir faces charges of war crimes at the International Criminal CourtWed Sept 16 2015 - 16:58
Plan agreed to stem job loses in South Africa’s mining industryGovernment, mining companies and unions reach agreement after weeks of negotiations to stabilise the industryMon Aug 31 2015 - 17:04
Human rights groups ask to give evidence in South African miners’ lawsuitOrganisation says class action may be only access to justice for workers and familiesSun Aug 23 2015 - 18:27
Wealthy, white Oscar Pistorius unlikely to return to prisonParalympian’s release from jail after just 10 months has sparked outrage in South AfricaWed Aug 19 2015 - 01:00
