President Jacob Zuma has tackled tension in the ruling alliance and concern over the conduct of the ANC's national leadership during a political overview he presented to a meeting of the party's top brass.

The ANC's decision to defend youth leader Julius Malema for singing "shoot the boers, they are rapists" will cause untold harm to South Africa's reconciliation efforts, the IFP has said.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested shortly after robbing a 13-year-old pupil at gunpoint in Norkem Park, Johannesburg police say.

An Austrian man says he was abused by a nun while a child - adding to allegations of sexual misdeed levelled against the country's Roman Catholic church.

China has warned Google it would face "consequences" if it stopped filtering its search results after earlier threats to leave over cyber attacks.

A family spokesperson says that the wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who is facing war crimes charges, has given birth to a baby girl.

The living descendants of King Tshwane, ruler of the BaTswana people, say they are "deeply disturbed" at the government's indecisiveness over the Pretoria name change.