Veteran canoeist Graeme Pope-Ellis died in an accident on his farm in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday, the Dusi organising committee said on Friday.
Electricity workers gave mediators three more days on Friday to resolve a pay dispute with employers and avert power cuts during the World Cup.
Organisers are hoping some of the glamour of the World Cup will rub off now that huge numbers of foreign media and theatre critics are in SA.
For a few hours I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. It was 11pm on Friday night for a performance of <i>House of the Holy Afro</i>.
Vocalist Busi Mhlongo has died. The 62-year-old battled with breast cancer for several years and died in a Durban hospital on June 15.
South African middleweight boxing champion Julie Shabalala sits on a bench in the Hillbrow Boxing Club and stares at her ragged training shoes.
Being the only white player in the Bafana Bafana squad is not an issue for Matthew Booth, but it is causing some confusion among the foreign press.
Neither a freezing wind nor blasting vuvuzelas could help as Uruguay ruthlessly exposed the home team’s weaknesses.
Police are investigating claims that sabotage by rival security companies lies behind the security guard strikes that rocked the World Cup this week.
New Eskom CEO Brian Dames hasn’t got his feet under the table yet and is already facing a strike.
Taxpayers foot the bill for more than 2 000 employees at empty World Cup courts.
It wasn’t the alleged infidelity that shocked me but the price that had to be paid; the sad unsuspecting goat that had to pay with its life.
On the day when we mark an event that ultimately contributed to us hosting the World Cup, we were too busy worrying about Bafana Bafana.
World Cup tourists give the country the thumbs up but public transport is a major gripe.
Argentina lit up the World Cup with its first hat trick on Thursday while fellow Latin Americans Mexico humiliated France.
Mexico pulled off a surprise 2-0 victory over France on Thursday, leaving the 2006 World Cup finalists facing serious risk of elimination.
The would-be chief executive of Transnet, Siyabonga Gama, may have been found guilty for awarding questionable tenders.
Greece came back from a goal down to beat Nigeria 2-1 in the World Cup on Thursday after the African team had to play with 10 men.
Thousands marched to the US consulate in Johannesburg on Thursday to deliver a memorandum demanding that HIV/Aids funding not be cut.
Twenty initiates have died following botched circumcisions in the Eastern Cape, the provincial health department said on Thursday.
South African police fired a stun grenade and rubber bullets on Thursday to break up a protest by security guards demanding payment.
Gonzalo Higuain scored the first hat-trick of the World Cup as Argentina took a huge step towards the second round when they thrashed South Korea 4-1.
Coaches have brushed off the challenge of chilly weather but an expert on tactics says the cold could limit the showcasing of individual brilliance.
Extreme cold, wind and heavy rain has killed 600 African penguin chicks on Bird Island, a reserve in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth.
Nelson Mandela and his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, mourned at the funeral of their great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela, on Thursday.
SA’s retail sales rose by 3,2% year-on-year in April at constant prices compared with a revised 2,7% increase in March.
A power cut that crippled trains stranded 2 000 World Cup fans until early on Thursday morning after hosts SA’s 3-0 defeat by Uruguay.
Europe’s biggest car-maker, Volkswagen, said on Thursday it would expand its South African operations.
Dutch brewery Bavaria flew two coordinators from The Netherlands to SA to organise an alleged ambush marketing campaign, Fifa said on Thursday.
Banks keep lowering their lending criteria and house prices keep going up.
There is still fight left in Bafana Bafana despite their 3-0 World Cup thrashing by Uruguay at Loftus Stadium on Wednesday night.
Two more initiates have died in the Eastern Cape, bringing to 13 the number of circumcision-related deaths in the past 12 days.