According to his supporters, jailed lawyer Thulani Maseko has been put in solitary confinement last week for a total duration of three weeks.
Germanwings airliner 4U9525 carried 148 passengers when it crashed in the region Les-Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
New Zealand’s Martin Guptill became the latest batsman to make Cricket World Cup history with an innings of 237 not out in a total of 393-6.
A record-breaking partnership of 256 between David Miller and JP Duminy led South Africa to a 62-run win over Zimbabwe on Sunday.
Following the death of President Michael Sata in October, the ruling Patriotic Front candidate Edgar Lungu has received 48.3% of the vote.
Survivors of the Boko Haram massacre that took place around the town of Baga, Nigeria, describe the militants slaughtering some people "like insects".
Hundreds of bodies are left in a bush in Nigeria from a Boko Haram attack, killing mostly children, women and elderly people.
The football association will no longer consider midfielder May Mahlangu for the SA team after he begged off training, saying he needed a rest.
A magnitude 5.3 quake with its epicentre in Orkney shook buildings in Johannesburg on Tuesday, followed by aftershocks on land and on Twitter.
Orica-GreenEDGE rider Daryl Impey of South Africa has been omitted from the team’s Tour de France line-up after failing a doping test.
The wave of deadly attacks by extremist groups has prompted officials to urge citizens to watch the World Cup from "the comfort of their homes".
Discussions between Nigeria’s military chiefs and the president over how to rescue schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram have reached a stalemate.
Veteran wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk has become the first athlete to win 10 titles at the Boston Marathon.
Flyhalf Colin Slade kicked six goals, taking advantage of a one-sided penalty count, to boost the Crusaders to an 18-17 win over the Chiefs.
The Proteas have lost their opening ICC World Twenty20 cricket game by five runs, with captain Faf du Plessis relegated to the bench injured.
Uganda’s government has been hit with substantial aid cuts after the president enacted a severe anti-gay law.
Hooded soldiers carrying sniper rifles have unleashed a sweeping crackdown across Mogadishu in a hunt for militants and weapons.
The Olympic flame has reached Sochi, following a 65 000km route, the longest in the history of the Games.
The first trial in France over the 1994 Rwandan genocide which left at least a half-million people dead has opened in a Paris court.
Zimbabwe’s cricketers have agreed to end their boycott over unpaid wages and are returning to training, says coach Andy Waller.
