After years of calling on the owners of South Africa's oil refineries in Durban to upgrade their facilities to reduce pollution, local residents of...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there...

South African President Thabo Mbeki has agreed to a call from the ruling African National Congress to resign. The ANC anounced earlier today that it...

High fertiliser and fuel prices in South Africa may impact the 2009/2010 maize harvest in the region's largest producer, a grain farmers' body...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has announced it will go ahead with plans to set up a regional grain reserve, while urging member...

The safety camps set up in Gauteng Province to house victims displaced in South Africa's xenophobic attacks were due to close on 15 August, but an...

South Africa should consider temporarily declaring asylum seekers from certain Southern African countries as refugees, to keep up with the burgeoning...

A packaging error by a factory worker a year ago has led to a nationwide recall of two types of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs manufactured by Adcock...

When Steve Matlhabela, 16, left his home on a chilly June morning to visit some relatives in a village not far from his in the rolling hills outside...

The border between South Africa and Zimbabwe is more than an international boundary; it also determines the method of payment for sex workers,...