South Africa is a country lying at the southernmost tip of the African continent. Some facts about South Africa, the country is bordered by six other African countries. These are: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. The country is marked by several distinct ecosystems. Inland, the Kruger National Park covers vast shrub lands populated by big [...]
South African Court Denies Pistorius Appeal To Girlfriend Murder Conviction
Oscar Pistorius Lawyers had applied for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South African but was denied on Thursday the right to appeal against his conviction for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Authorities had challenged Pistorius appeal on the grounds that the Supreme Court of Appeal had correctly found Pistorius guilty [...]
New Human Species Discovered In South Africa
Scientists say they've discovered new human species in South Africa. This new member of the human family revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South Africa. The species named, Homo Naledi, refers to the cave where the bones lay undisturbed for so long; “Naledi” means “star” in the local Lesotho language. Besides introducing [...]
Ten Most Beautiful And Most Attractive Places To Visit In South Africa
South Africa is a nation blessed with so many natural resources, vast cultures, languages, traditions, wild life conversations and exotic places to visit. The country is situated at the southern region of Africa which shares the same boundaries with Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe and it has 3000km coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian oceans. South [...]
Richest Country in Africa: See The Top 10 Richest African Countries
This list of richest countries in Africa will reveal some of the best kept secrets of the enormous wealth that flows in this black continent. African impressive economic growth has continued to improve over the last five years, making it one of the continent with the greatest potential for current and future growth. No wonder smart foreign investors keep trooping to Africa to [...]
The South Africa Man Who Kill and Eat His Victim’s Heart Gets 18 Years
JOHANNESBURG - A man who ate his victim's heart after stabbing him to death was sentenced to 18 years in prison by a South African court on Wednesday. Andrew Chimboza, a 35-year-old Zimbabwean national, killed his girlfriend's lover Mbuyiselo Manona on June 2014 in Cape Town's Gugulethu township. Judge Ashley Bins-Ward said that Chimboza had shown no remorse and refused [...]
South Africa still committed to good relations with Nigeria despite diplomatic recall
South Africa Government reiterate their commitment to maintaining a friendly relations with Nigeria after recalling their Acting High Commissioner Martin Cobham and Deputy High Commissioner Uche Ajulu-Okeke, for consultations following the xenophobia attacks on their citizens living in South Africa, the department of international relations said on Sunday. "If this action is [...]
South African Politician says Nigerian Men are Snatching their Wives
South Africa politician, Makashule Gana, has said that some of his compatriots complained to him that they are angry with Nigerians and other immigrants because they snatched their girlfriends. Gana, a Deputy Federal Chairperson of Democratic Alliance, made this disclosure at an anti-xenophobia rally, held at Constitution Hill. South Africa newspaper, City Press, reports that [...]
Nigerian Envoy To South Africa Recalled Over Xenophobia
South Africa Acting High Commissioner, Martin Cobham and Deputy High Commissioner, Uche Ajulu-Okeke, had been asked to return to Nigeria for consultations, a statement by the Foreign Affairs Ministry said. “The invitation is in connection with the on-going xenophobia in South Africa targeting foreigners, mainly African migrants,” the statement said. Seven people have been [...]
Nigerians lost N84m to xenophobic attacks in South Africa
The Nigerian Union in South Africa said on Saturday that Nigerians lost more than 4.6 million Rand (N84 million) to xenophobic attacks. The President of Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, told NAN on phone from Pretoria, South Africa, that the losses were initially put at 1.2 million Rand ( N21 million). “The Nigerian Union in South Africa has completed [...]
Horror of what’s really happening in South Africa #Xenophobia
At least five people have been killed over the past two weeks since local vigilantes in South Africa started looting and attacking shops owned by immigrants mainly from other parts of Africa In Johannesburg, Malawian immigrant Samuel Idrssa described how his friend was stabbed and set on fire by a mob. ‘We wanted to rescue him but there were too many of them,’ he said. ‘It [...]
Ethiopian Badly Burned During Anti Foreigners Violence in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Two Ethiopian nationals suffered serious burns when their shop in a South African township was set alight by a mob, police said Saturday, as violence against foreign immigrants spread. The men were in the shop in Umlazi, south of Durban, when it was petrol bombed on Friday night. "They suffered severe burn wounds and are being treated in hospital," [...]
Doctors perform first penis transplant in South African
South African doctors have successfully performed the world's first penis transplant on a young man who had his organ amputated after a botched circumcision ritual, a hospital said on Friday. The nine-hour transplant, which occurred in December last year, was part of a pilot study by Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch to help scores of initiates [...]
Trapped South African gold miners rescued
South Africa's Harmony Gold said on Sunday all 486 miners who were trapped underground following a fire had been rescued. The blaze occurred about 2.3 km (1.43 miles) underground during maintenance on an air cooler at the Kusasalethu mine, a deep level operation west of Johannesburg that is Harmony's single largest gold producer. The fire started around 0800 GMT and initially [...]
18 South Africans miners missing after underground fire
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African mining company says 18 miners are missing after a fire broke out underground. The Harmony Gold Mining Company said in a statement on Sunday that 486 miners were trapped when a fire started 2,300 meters (about 7,545 feet) below the surface. Harmony Gold spokeswoman Charmane Russell said all but 18 miners had been accounted for shortly before [...]
Two killed as shops owned by Immigrants were looted in South Africa
Johannesburg (Reuters) - Two men have been shot dead and shops owned by immigrants were looted in South Africa's biggest city, as unrest following the death of a teenager last week spread in Johannesburg townships, police said on Monday. The two men were killed in the Langlaagte township during a robbery at an immigrant-owned shop on Sunday, while another store was set ablaze [...]