Poachers in Zimbabwe have killed more than 300 elephants and countless other safari animals by cyanide poisoning.

Pest, charming oddity or just background noise, the Hadeda ibis is a feathered phenomenon in suburban South Africa.

P.K. Stowers takes the scenic route to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of the African continent.

Megan Singleton laces up and takes a look at the world's premier marathons worth making the trip for.

Last May, with considerable trepidation, I wrote an article about what seemed to be extraordinarily high rates of rape in Africa.

A spokesman for former US president George H.W. Bush has apologised after erroneously issuing a statement of condolence stating that South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela had died.

Nelson Mandela went home in an ambulance after nearly three months in a hospital that became the focus of a global outpouring of concern.

The aircraft was reportedly caught in a strong gust of wind and crashed into mountains in Mpumalanga, near Durban.

Doctors treating Nelson Mandela have been forced to deny a claim he is in a "permanent vegetative state" that was made in court papers by a lawyer representing close members of his family.

US President Barack Obama is to meet members of Nelson Mandela's family during his visit to South Africa, the White House says.

Of the many distinguished world figures who came through Government House in my time, the most memorable has to be Nelson Mandela, who came to New Zealand in 1995.

Nelson Mandela's condition remains "critical" but the Government hopes the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero will be out of hospital soon, President Jacob Zuma says.

The sustained protests in New Zealand against the 1981 rugby tour were well known to many black people, even those in prison, such as Mandela.

South Africa's president has visited a gravely ill Nelson Mandela in the hospital and cancelled a visit to Mozambique.

As I write this, Nelson Mandela is still with us, writes Gwynne Dyer. "How will South Africa do without him? Wrong question. In practice, South Africa has been doing without him for more than a decade."

Tourists have long flocked to the home-turned-museum of former President Nelson Mandela on Vilakazi Street in the South African township of Soweto. Now the area has a growing attraction: big snakes, and lots of them.

Five South African officials, including police and military commanders, have been suspended after a chartered plane carrying about 200 guests from India to a lavish family wedding was allowed to land at a South African air force base.

P.K. Stowers takes the scenic route to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of the African continent.

If I seem a bit sniffy, I assure Robertson locals, it's certainly not intentional nor an indication that I don't like the place.

Tourist pamphlets call Addo “a little town, about an hour's drive from Port Elizabeth, renowned for its citrus farms, horse breeding, roses and abundant bird life." Ewan McDonald investigates.