Deputy public protector Kevin Malunga will help probe the issues surrounding botched circumcisions, says his office.
Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of Sao Paulo to protest poor public services, police violence and government corruption.
Two South Africans have died in an al-Shabab attack on a United Nations compound in Somalia on Tuesday.
The South African netball team will have a good mix of youth and experience for the African Championships starting next week, says coach Elize Kotze.
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has no intention of retracting her department’s blistering attack on rights organisation Equal Education.
After a decade-long absence, the Miss Algeria beauty contest is to resume on Friday in the western city of Oran, says organisers.
Human Rights Watch has conducted an investigation into the dozens of bodies found in a river in the city of Aleppo, Syria, earlier this year.
The Daily Maverick has retracted a controversial story which claimed that al-Qaeda is active in South Africa.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab insurgents have shot and blasted their way into the UN compound in Mogadishu, leaving eight people dead.