Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is just one of several global companies targeting South Africa for expansion opportunities this year. But the retailer’s purchase of Massmart Holdings Inc. would be among the first big deals by an American company in Africa in...

The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt. * Tweet Be the first to Tweet this! * people Dugg thisdigg * Yahoo! Buzz ShareThis In a...

Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help in fighting AIDS. Graca Machel, a longtime advocate for children in her homeland of...

Despite a raft of objections to the government’s “secrecy bill” in last week’s public hearings, chief state law adviser Enver Daniels has declared the bill fully constitutional and has dismissed some of the submissions as...

FIFA said on Wednesday it would release 2,000 tickets for the World Cup quarter-finals which had been reserved by fans who hoped their teams would reach the last eight but had seen them eliminated. “Tickets for the quarter-finals will be, as of...

RWANDA’s former Ambassador to India, Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, was yesterday shot and critically wounded in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to media reports, Kayumba was shot at the gates of his home by a lone gunman who immediately fled the...

At least 86 FIFA World Cup volunteers were treated for food poisoning after eating breakfast at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga on Friday, Local Organising Committee spokesperson Rich Mkhondo said. “They got sick after eating food...

South Africa’s press agency says a giraffe has kicked a woman to death at a game farm in northeastern South Africa. The South African Press Agency said Wednesday that the woman took a walk with her two dogs on the game farm in Limpopo province...

A woman is receiving trauma counselling after watching her husband being attacked and killed by a shark off the Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town on Tuesday. Lifesaving Western Province said the middle-aged victim was a foreigner.

A U.N. rescue team confirmed there were no survivors among the 11 crew and military personnel on the plane, a Casa-212, when it went down near the town of Fonds-Verrettes, near the border with the Dominican Republic. The dead were Uruguayans and...