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Rugby: All Blacks want to 'right a wrong' against Springboks

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 11:36 AM

New Zealand want to "right a wrong" when they confront arch-rivals South Africa Saturday in a Rugby Championship final-round 'dead rubber' in Pretoria.  Read more »

S.African lion cubs conceived artificially in world first

Susan Njanji, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 30 02:16 PM

The two cubs, a male and female, born on August 25 are healthy and normal, said Andre Ganswindt, the director of the University of Pretoria's mammal research institute.   Read more »

Rugby: Springboks desperate to avoid being one-match wonders

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 28 10:39 AM

South Africa want to beat Australia for only the second time in seven Tests Saturday and avoid being labelled one-match wonders after a stunning triumph over New Zealand. Read more »

Authentic South African dishes over trade talks with the country's envoy to PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 13 12:41 PM

Annalisa Burgos gets to taste South African dishes while speaking with Ambassador Martin Slabber about South Africa's 25 years of bilateral ties with the Philippines. They also talked about similarities between the two countries, including rich biodiversity and withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. Read more »

BRICS nations pledge unity as trade war threatens

Beatrie Debut and Michelle Gumede, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 27 08:16 AM

The heads of the BRICS group -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- met in Johannesburg for an annual summit dominated by the risk of a US-led trade war, although leaders did not publicly mention President Donald Trump by name. Read more »

5 Pinoy seafarers injured in South Africa brawl, DFA says

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 24 05:29 AM

MANILA - Five Filipino seafarers were injured in a brawl in Cape Town, South Africa, an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday. Read more »

100 years since his birth, S.Africa pays tribute to Mandela

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 18 08:59 PM

His birthday on July 18 is marked annually around the world as "Mandela Day" Read more »

Obama speech to mark 100 years since Mandela's birth

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 17 01:31 PM

Obama has made relatively few public appearances since leaving the White House in 2017, but he has often credited Mandela for being one of the great inspirations in his life. Read more »

'We have nowhere': South Africa's landless vent their fury

Beatrice Debut, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 08 12:31 PM

In the first four months of the year, the city of Cape Town has been gripped by a wave of protests over land. The city's anti-land invasion squad has responded robustly, destroying illegal structures and illicit demarcation markers erected on squatted land. Read more »

Kidnappers demand bitcoin ransom for teen

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 22 11:01 PM

A gang who kidnapped a South African teenager from a playground at the weekend have demanded a ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency worth about $123,000, police said Tuesday. Read more »

Man guilty of murdering own family in axe frenzy

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 22 01:54 AM

A South African man was found guilty Monday of killing his wealthy parents and brother and severely injuring his sister in a frenzied axe attack at their home on an exclusive golf estate.   Read more »

S.African film-maker killed by giraffe

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 07 06:37 AM

A South African film-maker was killed by a giraffe while filming on a reserve outside Johannesburg, the game lodge's owner has said, adding that he died after being air-lifted to hospital. Read more »

LOOK: Reigning Miss U meets South Africa's strongest in Manila

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 06 02:30 PM

MANILA - One of South Africa's most beautiful faces met South Africa's strongest in Manila Saturday.  Read more »

Icebergs could float to the rescue of Cape Town water crisis

Tanisha Heiberg, Reuters
Posted at May 01 09:45 AM

JOHANNESBURG - Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa's drought-hit Cape Town to help solve the region's worst water shortage in a century. Read more »

Winnie Mandela dies at 81

Ed Cropley, Reuters
Posted at Apr 02 11:08 PM

JOHANNESBURG - Hailed as mother of the 'new' South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's legacy as an anti-apartheid heroine was undone when she was revealed to be a ruthless ideologue prepared to sacrifice laws and lives in pursuit of revolution and redress. Read more »

Hinihinalang mangangaso, patay nang lapain ng mga leon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 07:02 PM

Nakita ang ilang bahagi ng katawan ng biktima sa may talahiban ng isang pribadong game park sa Limpopo, isang probinsiya sa hilaga ng South Africa. Read more »

Pastor convicted for spraying followers with insecticide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 10 08:02 AM

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - A South African court on Friday convicted a self-styled prophet who sprayed his followers in the face with domestic insect killer as a supposed cure for illness. Read more »

Ilang isla sa El Nido isasara para sa taping ng 'Survivor South Africa'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 23 05:38 PM

Ilang sikat na isla dito ang pansamantalang isasara sa publiko matapos mapili ang bayan bilang lokasyon ng Survivor South Africa. Read more »

OPINION: Zuma’s shadow looms over Southeast Asia

Karim Raslan — Ceritalah ASEAN
Updated as of Jan 17 05:08 PM

South Africa’s economic potential and natural resources are incredible. But mismanagement and rotten politics have hurt it as well as poisoned communal relations.  Read more »

14 dead, 190 injured as train slams into truck

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 05 01:51 AM

A passenger train smashed into a truck at a level crossing in South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, injuring 190 and throwing several carriages off the rails. Read more »