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SA mayor gives scholarships to virgins
A SA mayor is awarding scholarships to young women who remain virgins, though they need to regularly prove it.
A SA mayor is awarding scholarships to young women who remain virgins, though they need to regularly prove it.
Look online but book directly with Africa's hotels, writes Rachel Ward.
AB de Villiers describes his appointment as captain of South Africa's test team as the fulfilment of a lifelong dream.
Oscar Pistorius could be convicted of murder within weeks if South Africa's supreme court of appeal decides he should have known his actions would kill.
The paralympic athlete was freed from prison yesterday, almost a year to the day after he was jailed for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead.
He has served less than a year in jail for killing his girlfriend.
South Africa's murder rate has increased for the third year running, with opposition groups saying the figures mirror "a country at war".
Ian Mellett has plenty of reasons to be a proud South African rugby supporter, and says the loss to Japan on the weekend has not dented any of them.
A chef deemed "too fat" for NZ has launched a fresh appeal to stay in the country, claiming that even the All Blacks would fail tough immigration obesity rules.
Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Now he's set to be released after just serving 10 months of his sentence.
New Zealand will be on guard when they face Zimbabwe in the opening ODI of their four-game visit in Harare on Sunday.
As recently as last year, Springbok Bismarck du Plessis was widely considered the best hooker in the world. No longer and it's clear Dane Coles has overtaken him.
Justin Marshall writes: South Africa dominated for large patches but would have been left with a feeling familiar.
The mother of an Australian surfer who survived a close encounter with a great white shark believes her son's dead sibling was watching over him.
More than 300 people were injured when two passenger trains crashed in South Africa yesterday.
A British safari guide was attacked by a leopard in the open-top jeep he was travelling in while in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
The camera of an American woman mauled to death by a lion in South Africa has been taken by police investigating what prompted the big cat to pounce.
With their roots in South Africa's apartheid-era security forces, they don't fit the image of an army of liberation.
The South African government will set up dedicated courts to try perpetrators of xenophobic violence that has afflicted the country in recent weeks, claiming at least seven lives.
Shocking scenes have emerged from the streets of Johannesburg, where South Africa was experiencing yet another day of widespread looting and anti-immigrant attacks.
So far six people are believed to have been killed in violent anti-immigrant protests in South Africa.
Chris Leadbeater makes the most of a short visit to the harbour city.
John Coomber finds inconveniences don't bother him a bit on a cross-country rail trek.
An Australian tourist was lucky to escape with his life after he was mauled by a lion during an African safari tour.
June Steenkamp is in NZ to share her experience. She hopes sharing what her daughter went through will help other women speak up to prevent domestic violence.
The northern white rhino is heading the way of the dinosaurs. With only five left on Earth extinction is now inevitable.
Unless the US, or another exotic wild card makes a late bid, the 2023 World Cup hosting rights have to - surely - be given to South Africa.
For John Simpson, gritty, sunny Johannesburg is South Africa's golden city.
South African doctors have performed the world's first successful penis transplant, three months after the ground-breaking operation.