5 h. ago A South African woman goes on trial charged with kidnapping and selling her daughter

A South African woman has gone on trial charged with kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that gained national attention

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46 h. ago A child dies of Ebola in Uganda, raising concern over disease surveillance in outbreak

The World Health Organization says a 4-year-old child has become the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda

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54 h. ago Namibian founding president Sam Nujoma is laid to rest and praised as the last African liberator

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries

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3 d. ago Daughter of sadistic YouTuber mum unveils trauma of 'selling childhood online'

Disgraced parenting vlogger Ruby Franke is now behind bars after her torturous campaign of child abuse came to light, but for her six children, the nightmare is still ongoing

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5 d. ago South African court dismisses claim of ‘white genocide’ in country

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have accused South Africa of enabling ‘genocide’ of white farmers

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6 d. ago 230K Canadians demand country revoke Musk’s citizenship; Mogul responds Canada is ‘not a real country’

The South African-born billionaire, who holds both Canadian and U.S. citizenship, retaliated to the 230,000-strong petition

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6 d. ago 230K Canadians demand country revoke Musk’s citizenships; Mogul responds Canada is ‘not a real country’

The South African-born billionaire, who holds both Canadian and U.S. citizenship, retaliated to the 230,000-strong petition

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6 d. ago Critically injured South African soldiers are evacuated from Congo amid rebel offensive

South Africa's armed forces say a group of soldiers critically injured in fighting in eastern Congo a month ago have been evacuated by the United Nations

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6 d. ago British Iranian engineer wins £8k damages after South African sales reps mocked him with Indian accent and claimed they couldn't be racist because of their 'multicultural' background

A British Iranian engineer has been awarded over £8k in damages after an employment tribunal ruled that he had been harassed when colleagues imitated an Indian accent in front of him at work.

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8 d. ago Scottish golfer relishing South African Open return after top

Connor Syme excited about paying his first visit to Durban following best result so far in 2025

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8 d. ago Watch parents' sick reaction after 'trying to strangle daughter in Muslim honor killing' before boyfriend saved her

Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, were charged with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, and assault after the attack outside Timberline High in Lacey, Washington.

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9 d. ago Damon Hill declares ‘it’s over’ as F1 legend takes latest swipe at Elon Musk

Damon Hill has had a number of run-ins with Elon Musk over the past few months over the South African's ownership of Twitter and his relationship with Donald Trump

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1 week ago Man is awarded £35,000 after he was held in hellhole South African jail for rape for two months despite not having a penis

The wrongly arrested man, who was 21 at the time, had been kidnapped when he was 12 and brutally attacked and had his left ear, penis, testicles and scrotum cut off.

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1 week ago ‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long

A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equalityA group of Black men stand naked in a line with their arms up, facing the wall, as they undergo a medical examination before being sent to work in the mines. The image is just one of many by the late Ernest Cole depicting the dehumanisation of Black people during apartheid. Writing for Ebony magazine in 1968, the South African photographer explained how he wanted his work to “show the world what the white South African had done to the Black”. Since the late 1950s, he had been chronicling, up close and in detail, the horrors of racial segregation for publications such as Drum and the New York Times and had become arguably the most significant photographer documenting the country’s oppressive regime.“Ernest’s photos are the first ones that gave us an idea of what apartheid was, from the belly of the beast,” says Ha...

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1 week ago Dragons line up move for South African tighthead after quartet agree deals

The Dragons are working hard to strengthen their pack

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1 week ago UN tribunal head told police 'I'm a judge' when officers came to probe reports she was holding a woman as a slave, court hears

Ugandan High Court judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, is accused of conspiring with deputy High Commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa to bring the woman to the UK.

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1 week ago Woman, 44, found dead under duvet covered in bite marks after being 'beaten with hammer', court hears

Sam Varley, 44, was discovered lying face down on her bed with blood under her head at the home she shared with Warren Spence, Leeds Crown Court was told.

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1 week ago Tyla finally breaks silence on backlash to identifying as ‘colored’

The singer first called herself a ‘colored South African’ in a 2020 TikTok which sparked backlash after resurfacing three years later

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1 week ago Woman, 44, found dead under duvet covered in bite marks after being 'beaten with hammer', murder trial hears

Sam Varley, 44, was discovered lying face down on her bed with blood under her head at the home she shared with Warren Spence, Leeds Crown Court was told.

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1 week ago Dragons to sign three Wales internationals and South African fly

The Dragons have made strengthening their pack a priority

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