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...

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has said today that he will be standing for...

Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing...

Before you wrap it up, meet the people who check it out. IRIN/PlusNews went inside the condom testing facilities of the South African Bureau of...

Corruption-related charges have been brought against Jacob Zuma, the newly-elected leader of the African National Congress (ANC), according to his...

Hundreds of undocumented migrants are queuing for weeks and even months outside the Home Affairs department's office in Marabastad, Pretoria, in...