South Africa news headlines

A Spanish tourist was crushed to death by a herd of elephants inside South Africa's Pilanesberg National Park after he left his vehicle to take a close-up photo of the breeding animals, local police said.

The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system 30 years ago.

Staff have made the allegations against some executives.

Rocket sirens have sounded across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, for the first time in months, as Hamas claimed to have fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza.

While Israel is unlikely to comply with any such order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

Israel's latest actions in Rafah have prompted fresh legal action amid genocide accusations in the UN's highest court.

A ship docked in Cape Town's harbour is thought to be stench central.

A man has been arrested hours after he claimed responsibility for starting a building fire in South Africa last year that killed 76 people while trying to get rid of the body of someone he had killed.

Making Gaza a "slaughterhouse". "Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth". Such language is key to South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide, which the country denies.

They paid US$1 ($1.49) for the rights in 2013, according to CEO Stefano Marani, and started to test the composition of the gas flowing from two rusted drill pipes that had been installed years before for mineral exploration.

Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole after serving time for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Only Pistorius really knows for sure what he did, and he may be the only person who ever will.

South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole and will be released from prison on January 5, 2024.

Oscar Pistorius could be granted parole today after spending nearly 10 years in prison for murder.

Two tourists who were killed, along with their tour guide, in an attack near a Ugandan national park were a newlywed couple, the country's president said in a statement.

Neuralink is set to begin offering brain implants to paralysis patients, after facing scrutiny over a monkey's death in earlier testing.

The double-amputee Olympic runner may have been wrongly denied early release from prison because of an error over when he began serving his sentence.

Some people threw babies out of third-story windows to others waiting below in the desperate scramble to evacuate, witnesses said.

There has been no official comment from Beijing after the leader failed to make a scheduled appearance at an international business meeting.

Two of the victims were aged just one year and six years old.

Researchers don't believe it was one killed by an orca a day earlier.

An ancient human cousin may have buried its dead and carved symbols into cave walls, surprising findings for a creature with a small brain.

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink says it's received permission from US regulators to begin testing its device in people.

The US ambassador to South Africa accused the country on Thursday of providing weapons and ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine via a cargo ship linked to a sanctioned company that docked secretly at a naval base near the city of Cape Town in December.

Thabo Bester was at large for a year after it was thought he died by setting himself on fire in his prison cell.

He was forced to make an emergency landing after feeling "something cold" slide across his lower back mid flight.

South Africa's parole board has denied early release for disgraced Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of murder in the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

From an infamous passage with a morbid name in Bolivia, to the United Kingdom and USA, these are the most treacherous roads in the world.

Telltale marks point towards an fierce encounter with an even more fearsome predator of the ocean.

The AFP allege the group set up over 80 bank accounts with stolen identities to launder money, with some victims losing as much as $500,000.

An "infamously" blood-thirsty pair of orcas who devoured a total of 17 sharks in a single day have baffled marine biologists with their insatiable appetite. 

The rotten remains of shark corpses have been discovered on the same stretch of coast - and each sports a telling gruesome injury.

A jury decided Elon Musk didn’t deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors.

A Russian warship armed with advanced hypersonic missiles completed a drill in the Atlantic Ocean, ahead of joint naval exercises with the Chinese and South African navies.

Group of 30 armed men search for tiger that escaped after burglars cut a fence on the property.

The daughter of a woman missing south-west of Brisbane is still holding on to hope 12 days after the 74-year-old disappeared.

A US man has been charged after security staff at Sydney Airport allegedly found about two kilograms of methamphetamines in his suitcase.

Elon Musk's wealth destruction has become historic.

Police are ramping up the search for a woman missing in south-east Queensland since Friday, amid concerns for her wellbeing.

South Africa's coastal city of Durban has closed its North Beach after three people died when they were hit by a large wave, emergency officials said today.

What do you have on your bedside table if you're the richest person in the world?

The new CEO of the South African company that owns David Jones has admitted the purchase of the Aussie retailer in 2014 was a mistake.

Australia has placed among the top 10 countries with the greatest health freedoms in the world.

A grisly mauling in the shallows of a holiday hotspot has lead authorities to warn about an "unusual" spike in the predators' activity.

Calls are growing in South Africa for Britain's royal family to return the world's largest known clear-cut diamond in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II's death.

The carcass sports a grisly wound signature made infamous by the pair of orcas.

More than 80 men are suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and the armed robbery of a video production crew.

This gory vision has been branded "one of the most incredible pieces of natural history ever captured on film".

A toxic chemical was found in the blood of nearly two dozen dead teenagers after a mysterious tragedy rocked a country to its core.