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South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday.
However, the question of whether she...
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South Africa’s deputy police minister has stood by his force’s tough, shoot-to-kill policy, days after a three-year-old boy was shot dead by officers.
Fikile Mbalula said it was inevitable that innocent people would get caught in...
Jackie Selebi, the former South African ambassador to the U.N. and head of Interpol, finally went on trial in Johannesburg on Oct. 5 after nearly two years of court delays. A close ally of former President Thabo Mbeki, Selebi is the most senior member...
Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland has protested to Ethiopia, accusing its forces of carrying out a cross-border undercover operation.
Puntland’s security minister told the BBC two people were in hospital after Ethiopian forces...
The storm surrounding ANC Youth League President Julius Malema’s criticism of President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of “minorities” to strategic economic positions, personifies this kind of hypocrisy and dishonesty.
Malema...
The BBC and CNN will be able to report freely from Zimbabwe for the first time in eight years after restrictions were lifted by the country’s government.
Zimbabwe’s minister of media, information and publicity, Webster Shamu, claimed that...
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...
South Africa must ease economic inequalities or face serious consequences, President Jacob Zuma said, a policy that could unnerve foreign investors worried he may steer the economy to the left.
Zuma, inaugurated last month, may be headed for a...
Burundi’s security forces have detained illegally about 200 people suspected of helping the country’s last active rebel group, a human rights group says.
The detainees included Senator Benoit Ntaganzwa and his wife, the Burundian...
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change said today an official presidential election result showing its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had failed to garner enough votes for an outright victory was scandalous.
Mr Tsvangirai won 47.9 per...
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