Over 450,000 South Africans have signed a petition calling for the death penalty to be reintroduced, following several high-profile murders and widespread violence. The campaign was set up after a…
The AP’s six-year veteran White House reporter Darlene Superville has triggered a backlash in Africa and drawn the ire of many on Twitter after referring to South Africa President Cyril…
The former president of the Spanish athletics federation, José María Odriozola, has backed the newly-implemented testosterone restrictions imposed on female athletes, insisting that Caster Semenya is a “biological man.” Odriozola,…
When she joined a trial of new tuberculosis drugs, the dying young woman weighed just 57 pounds. Stricken with a deadly strain of the disease, she was terrified. Local nurses…
Double Olympic middle-distance champion Caster Semenya has spoken out about a perceived lack of support from her fellow female athletes in her battle against athletics’ authorities over her testosterone levels….
US health officials have been warning about new generations of fast-spreading, drug-resistant diseases proliferating thanks to climate change, and it appears they have identified the first candidate. After first popping…
Billionaire Jeff Bezos says he was inspired to enter the private space race after watching the Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago and seeing “Neil and Buzz land on the…
Four ships belonging to the state-owned Iranian company Sapid were stuck in Brazil after they were left without fuel, while the Brazilian fuel company Petrobras refused to refuel them in…
Convoys of armoured vehicles and soldiers with assault rifles are patrolling gang-ridden streets in some suburbs of Cape Town, as authorities seek to quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds…
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has pulled out of a corruption inquiry, according to his lawyer. Muzi Sikhakhane said Mr Zuma was subjected to “relentless cross-examination” and would “take…
