Nelson Mandela, working with the Soviet Union, wanted to replace Apartheid tyranny with a Marxist dictatorship. He and his followers hijacked the Anti-Apartheid Movement in an attempt to bring communism to South Africa. He was a member of the South African Communist Party and a co-founder of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress which targeted white civilians. Mandela... 

South African anti-apartheid communist leader Nelson Mandela has died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home, family and friends had gathered to pay their last respects to the iconic figure that inspired millions around the world. South African president Jacob Zuma addressed the nation on live television to make the announcement that Mandela, or Madiba as he is known in the country, had died at the age... 

A protester kicks a banner with the face of U.S. President Barack Obama as hundreds rally against his visit in Pretoria. Anti-U.S. protesters have burned posters of U.S. President Barack Obama in the South African city of Johannesburg ahead of his visit to the city on Saturday. Protesters also burned miniature U.S. flags outside the University of Johannesburg Soweto campus, expressing their anger at... 

South African President Jacob Zuma addresses striking miners at a platinum mine in the town of Marikana. South African President Jacob Zuma says problems including strikes and deadly clashes faced by the mining industry have affected the country’s economy. “When our mining sector is in difficulties, this affects the wider economy, leading to industrial slowdown,” Zuma said on Thursday. Reports... 

Striking platinum miners gather outside the Amplats mine in Rustenburg, South Africa on October 5, 2012. The world’s biggest platinum producer, Amplats has fired 12,000 workers after they held a wildcat strike for three weeks at its mine in South Africa’s eastern town of Rustenberg. “Approximately 12,000 striking employees chose not to make representations, nor attend the hearings, and have... 

The 3 accused in the Walkerville massacre and torture. Mbele is on the left and Radebe on the right. Two young black males gagged a crying 12-year old white boy and afterwards drowned him in a bath filled with boiling water. The accused yesterday admitted guilt to the murder with smiles as they appeared in the Vereeniging regional court, reports the Johannesburg Afrikaans daily, Beeld. In a typical... 

Four suspects involved in a suspected satanic ritual, in which two girls were badly burnt, are led away by police officers after they appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court. Kirsty Theologo An 18-year-old South African woman was in a coma Monday after being doused in petrol and burned alive by friends in a Johannesburg park, in what police suspect was a satanic ritual. According to the... 

Art: An ochre-based artist's kit, dating back 100,000 years, was discovered in the Blombos Cave Paint pots used by humans more than 100,000 years ago have been discovered in South Africa. Archaeologists excavating the Blombos Cave have stumbled upon a hoard of art materials which include everything an ancient artist might have required to be creative. Red and yellow pigments, shell containers and... 

Supporters of African National Congress (ANC) Youth League leader Julius Malema in Johannesburg. Julius Malema, the outspoken youth leader of the African National Congress, has been found guilty of “hate speech” for singing the song “Shoot the Boer,” which refers to white farmers. The lyrics of the controversial song “Shoot the Boer” which just got banned can be... 

The South African government’s efforts to redress the wrongs of apartheid by buying farms from willing white owners and giving them to blacks has been a failure, with many of the new owners having little experience to make a success of it. The policy has also stirred racial tensions. Reporting from Greylingstad, South Africa — Michael Zulu trundles a wheelbarrow along the track to his farm... 

Two foreign nationals were raped in two separate incidents in the Eastern Cape, police said on Sunday. A 15-year-old German girl was raped, allegedly by two armed men who broke into a chalet she was sharing with her 14-year-old brother at a bed and breakfast facility in Addo, said Captain Ernest Sigobe. “The men allegedly gained entry by breaking the back window at 06:00 yesterday (Saturday).” The... 

Newly elected South African president sings a song called “Bring me my machine gun” which clearly instigates to violence. Even though the song “Kill the Boers” (kill white South Africans) is banned in South Africa, ANC leader Julius Malema says he will sing the song even from exile. He also says he has no respect for Terre’Blanche. But this type... 

Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the white nationalist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), was hacked and bludgeoned to death by two of his black farmhands in a dispute over wages on Saturday, according to South African police. The body of the controversial activist who rose to prominence in the 1980s was found on his bed with facial and head injuries. Adele Myburgh, a police spokeswoman, said... 

Bianca Warburton – Educational Psychology Intern (2009) Educational Psychology Intern (University of Witwatersrand). Assistant (sic) in the Ububele Umdlezane Parent Infant Project. A 24-year-old woman, believed to be an intern social worker, was shot dead in an attempted hijacking in Alexandra on Wednesday, Johannesburg police said. Blonde-haired Bianca Warburton had stopped her car at a stop street... 

One child is raped in South Africa every three minutes, a report by trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. A report compiled by Solidarity Helping Hand said that while there were about 60 cases of child rape in South Africa every day, more than 88% of child rapes were never reported. “This means that about 530 child rapes take place every day – one rape every three minutes,” said...