The missing remains of Umkhonto we Sizwe activist Patrick Mahlangu, killed by security police in 1986, have been found and are to be exhumed.
More than 300 000 people are still displaced in Côte d’Ivoire almost two months after the end of the country’s post-election crisis, the UN says.
The government is "seriously exploring the need" to have a single election for national, provincial and local government, President Jacob Zuma says.
South Africa’s intervention in Walmart’s bid for control of Massmart was "aggressive" and could have been handled better, Massmart has said.
Police brutality has become more prevalent at service delivery protests in the past two years, the Independent Complaints Directorate said on Tuesday.
Nigerian police have charged a fiery Muslim cleric with planning a post-poll bombing in April that killed the person assembling the explosive.
Critics of Tunisia’s ousted president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali have slammed the state’s decision to put him on trial in absentia as a "PR exercise".
The final 24-month trial of a gel that researchers hope will help prevent HIV transmission is expected to start at the end of July or early August.
The South African Institute for Drug Free Sport has launched an anti-doping initiative after an increase in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Distracting patients by immersing them in a virtual world, sometimes by using a video game, appears to help reduce pain.