A Durban nurse who was gang-raped for six hours, while her fiance watched helplessly, says she lives her life in fear of it happening again. And while she got “some closure” this week, when one of her rapists was sentenced to three life terms plus 27 years’ imprisonment, the 40-year-old woman says her life will never be the same. After the sentencing of Tandaso Peterson Nombele,... 

One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack. The study, by the country’s Medical Research Council, also found three out of four who admitted rape had attacked for the first time during their teens. It said practices such as gang rape were common because they were considered a form of male bonding. The... 

Farmers' wives learn how to defend themselves on a farm-attack prevention course near the Zimbabwean border in South Africa Only 70 miles from a 2010 World Cup football stadium, a farmer’s wife and a boy aged 13 learn to defend themselves with lethal weapons. They say thousands of white landowners have been killed by Zimbabwe-style marauders; their black rulers accuse them of belligerence... 

ANC government moves closer to confiscating white-owned farms “Our common and decisive victory against domestic apartheid confirms that you, the peoples of the world, have both a responsibility and a possibility to achieve a decisive victory against global apartheid.” South African President Thabo Mbeki in his opening speech at the recent U.N. conference on Sustainable Development HOUT... 

Carolyn Forword A White actress’ refusal to kiss her Black co-star on the lips during a play aimed to promote inter-racial relations has exploded into a major race row in South Africa. 22-year old Carolyn Forword says she did not walk out of the production of The Pied Piper of Hamlin because of the race of her co-star. Instead, she insists the repeated smooching is “unhygienic” and not suitable... 

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Just a taste of what it will be like for 350,000 foreign football fans at the FIFA WC2010 in South Africa? Pretoria-born businessman Christo Viljoen, 57, who had fled from the city’s crime to Ballito at the KwaZulu-Natal coast two years ago, travelled back to his beloved home town to cheer on the Blue Bulls in the Super14 semifinal rugby tournament at the Loftus Versfeld stadium. The Afrikaner had... 

An atheist leftist reporter from BBC, Louis Theroux interviews Eugene Terre’blanche at his home and tries to corner him basically into labeling Eugene Terre’blanche as a typical mindless racist. However Eugene, the only white rights advocate in South Africa, as usual with his sharp intelligent mind, quickly noticed Louis’s vicious plot to circle around the “only whites are... 

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Deidre Prinsloo, 20, died in the accident which happened at about 4am at the intersection of Meyer street and the Ventersdorp road. Deidre was a 20 years old a beautiful woman when her life was cruelly snuffed out at approximately 4AM on Saturday 16 May. A drunken ANC councillor went racing through a red traffic light and smashed into Deidre’s Citroen C2, instantly killing her. The drunken kaffir... 

Recruitment to the far-right British National Party (BNP) is rife among South African expatriates to the UK, according to a report by anti-fascist magazine Searchlight.  White southern Africans, some with a history of hate crime, are prominent members and large contributors to the BNP. With the far-right movement seemingly dormant in South Africa, most of those involved are more able to thrive with... 

Jacob Zuma leads thousands in singing his campaign song. BRING ME MY MACHINE GUN! Lyrics: Umshini wami mshini wami (lead) khawuleth’umshini wami (Follower) Umshini wami mshini wami, khawuleth’umshini wami Umshini wami mshini wami, khawuleth’umshini wami khawuleth’umshini wami Wen’uyang’ibambezela(Lead) umshini wami, khawuleth’umshini wami(Follower) Translation. My machine my machine... 

An armed mob, angered over the slow pace of land reform benefits, has launched a Zimbabwean-style invasion of one of South Africa’s new multimillion pound showpiece agricultural reform projects, the biggest yet in value instituted by the post-apartheid government. Government sources said a mob, armed with knives and machetes, had seized control of Forana farm in the rich farming area of Mpumalanga... 

South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds.The plants look lush and healthy from the outside. Monsanto has offered compensation. Monsanto blames the failure of the three varieties of corn planted on these farms, in three South African provinces,on alleged ‘underfertilisation... 

Johannesburg used to be an orderly First World city. They used to call it the “Golden City”. But these days Johannesburg is quite chaotic. You can hardly drive through any part of Johannesburg anymore without coming across traffic lights that aren’t working. The black taxi drivers of South Africa are known for their terrible driving, their constant breaking of the rules of the road...