South African prosecutors charge ANC leader Jacob Zuma with corruption

Untreatable strains of TB and AIDS scare residents of South Africa , where the tuberculosis conference takes place.

In the largest post-apartheid direct investment deal in South Africa, the state-controlled Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, ICBC, has purchased 20 percent of Standard Bank, South Africa's largest lender.

The leaders of three emerging regional powers have been meeting in South Africa to strengthen trade and build a common voice for developing nations on international issues. The meeting between India, Brazil and South Africa is to conclude with agreements on energy, transportation and information technology.

Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex bladelet tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being reported in the Oct. 18 issue of the journal Nature.

Police in South Africa say the bodies of 23 miners killed by an underground fire last week have been recovered. A police spokesman says the miners were working illegally at a mine in Free State province when the fire broke out on Tuesday.

The last of 3,200 miners trapped deep in a South African mine shaft have come to the surface, capping a day-long rescue mission that began with fears of the worst and ended in wild celebrations.

An operation to rescue more than 3,000 trapped miners in South Africa is proceeding well and so far 1,650 miners have made it to the surface.

Thousands of miners were being painstakingly brought to the surface after spending hours trapped more than two kilometres underground at a gold mine in South Africa.

Mining Accident in South Africa Traps 3,000 In a Gold Mine; Rescue Operations Under Way.

IBM (NYSE: IBM), Business Partners, International Finance Corporation (IFC) a member of the World Bank Group, and the Department of Trade and Industry, have come together to provide South Africa’s budding entrepreneurs, small and medium enterprises with a free Web-based toolkit to help them start, finance and grow their business.

A small South Africa mining firm says it has unearthed the world's largest diamond, with a size which is purported to be 7000 carats.