South Africa is edging closer to a major healthcare overhaul with a bill that aims to provide universal coverage, but concerns are mounting over whether the struggling public system is ready to implement such an ambitious plan, healthcare workers, patients and business groups say.

Will South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma run for president on behalf of a new political organization that he joined last year after denouncing the ruling African National Congress party that he once led?

A South African court on Tuesday allowed former president Jacob Zuma to run in May's general elections, overturning a decision by electoral authorities barring him over a previous conviction.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma is barred from the May 29 election because of his past convictions. We take a closer look at the implications.

South Africa's electoral commission said on Thursday it had excluded former president Jacob Zuma from standing in the May 29 general election. “In the case of former president Zuma, yes, we did receive an objection, which has been upheld,” commission president Mosotho Moepya told reporters, without giving details.

A bus crash in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo resulted in 45 deaths and one serious injury, South Africa's Department of Transport said on Thursday.

Natasha Joubert is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but it's her resilience through hard times with depression that make her a force to be reckoned with.

The term "blesser" emerged out of South African social media and usually refers to an older man who provides a younger woman with money or luxury items in exchange for sex. A shockingly high percentage of young local women say they have had such transactional sex.

South Africa has recorded a significant increase in the killing of rhinos by poachers. The uptick comes despite government efforts to crack down on the illegal trade in horns.

Kumba Iron Ore, an Anglo American unit, on Tuesday (February 20) became the latest business in South Africa's mining sector to announce job cuts in a move likely to heap pressure on the government ahead of elections later this year.

May 29 is set as the date when South Africa's ruling ANC party will face voters for what may be the first real challenge to its domination of the political landscape. Also, Guinea's ruling junta doubles down on its dissolution of the government by announcing further restrictions.

Eleven lions were released into the Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa on Saturday, having been flown out of war-torn Sudan's capital Khartoum.