South Africa

A 4-year-old girl, Banele Shelembe, has been attacked and killed by two pit bulls in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Shelembe from the Mvundlweni area at KwaMnyandu, Elandskop was with three older children when the dogs from the area…

Corruption trial of former South African President, Jacob Zuma has been postponed until next month. A judge at Pietermaritzburg High Court in the former president’s home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday adjourned Zuma’s trial until…

Supporters of former South African President, Jacob Zuma on Sunday vowed to render the country ungovernable if he is jailed. It would be recalled that Zuma was on Tuesday, June 29 sentenced to 15 months by country’s Constitutional…

Federal Government has on Monday added South Africa to the existing list of countries where inbound non-Nigerian passengers are temporarily banned from entering the country. It also extended the ban on travellers from Brazil, India and…

United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities has announced a revision in procedures for travellers coming from Republic of India, South Africa and Nigeria on June 19. The new development is contained in a statement issued by UAE Embassy in…

A 46-year-old South African woman, Nonkululeko Ngwabe, has been convicted and sentenced to 22 years imprisonment by Pietermaritzburg High Court. Ngwabe was this week found guilty of the murder of her husband, warrant officer Thulani…

A Pretoria high court in South Africa on Thursday May 27, sentenced a convicted serial rapist who raped and robbed 56 women across Pretoria suburbs for five years, to 1,088 years in prison. The 33-year-old man named Sello Abram Mapunya…

South Africa's Department of Home Affairs has proposed a new law that will allow women marry more than one husband, in the same way that polygamous men are allowed to marry more than one wife. The 67-page policy document also called…

Regent of Zulu nation and wife of South Africa’s recently deceased, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini died unexpectedly on Thursday, the royal palace announced. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, traditional prime minister to Zulu monarch, in a statement…

Federal Government has warned Nigerians against travelling to countries that are recording a third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, especially India where they largely go to for medical tourism. The countries that are currently recording a…

A Nigerian man has appeared in court in Johannesburg, South Africa after being arrested for allegedly selling drugs to schoolchildren. Police said drugs were found on him and he led them to his home where more drugs were found and…

South Africa has sold a million doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for distribution in 14 fellow African nations, the health minister announced on Sunday. Last month, South Africa suspended its vaccination programme, which had…

Goodwill Zwelithini, revered king of Zulu ethnic group in South Africa, has in the early hours of Friday died at 72, after spending weeks in hospital for diabetes treatment. His palace made this announcement today via a statement signed…

South Africa has suspended the use of Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in its immunisation programme until a committee of scientists advises on the best way to proceed. Africa’s hardest-hit nation had intended to soon roll a…

South Africa has on Monday taken delivery of its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines, a move paving the way to the first phase of inoculation in Africa’s worst-hit country. Public broadcaster SABC showed President Cyril Ramaphosa at…