A 13-year-old Grahamstown girl was kidnapped, raped and held captive for a week before escaping on Saturday, police said.
A young British tourist was repeatedly raped after she and her South African friend were hijacked on the Sabie-Lydenburg road on Saturday afternoon.
A solemn Sabrina van Schoor was convicted in the Grahamstown High Court on Monday of murdering her 48-year-old mother.
A Durban firm of attorneys was left red-faced on Monday after mistakenly placing a racist sale in execution notice in a local Barkly East newspaper
The man charged with killing Mozambican investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso told a court on Monday that the murder was ordered by the eldest son of President Joaquim Chissano.
New attempts to underpin roller-coaster relations between the two Koreas will start on Monday when they hold their first ministerial meeting since a deadly sea battle in June.
Despite stock market woes that cost him -billion this year, Microsoft boss Bill Gates remains the richest person in the United States.
A high-powered UN conference on climate change opened here on Wednesday with a call to the international community to implement the Kyoto protocol on global warming as a matter of urgency.
Broccoli and broccoli sprouts contain a chemical that kills the bacteria responsible for most stomach cancer.
A potential water crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare was averted on Monday after the Reserve Bank announced that it would provide 000 for the purchase of water purifying chemicals.