Shakirah Thebus

CAPE TOWN – For 77-year-old Fatima Dulvie, the annual minstrel parade represents more than just a colorful spectacle — it's a living connection to

As a girl, Fatima Dulvie would spend New Year 39;s Day perched on the wall of her home in Cape Town 39;s historic District Six area in feverish anticipation of the minstrels 39; parade that would pass the following day .

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South Africa on Tuesday handed back to Zimbabwe ancestral human remains and a centuries-old stone carving of its sacred national emblem, the Zimbabwe bird, stolen more than 100 years ago during the colonial era.

CAPE TOWN, May 3 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's National Department of Health confirmed on Sunday evening that two people have died from an acute respiratory infection on board a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hundreds of foreigners fearing for their lives have taken shelter in community halls on South Africa's south coast, saying mobs of locals were going door-to-door telling them to leave the country.

CAPE TOWN, June 27 (Xinhua) -- More than 500 Zimbabweans have gathered outside their country's consulate in Cape Town seeking government-assisted repatriation, as fears grow over anti-immigrant demonstrations planned for June 30 that have prompted many foreign nationals to seek to leave South Africa.

CAPE TOWN, July 4 (Xinhua) -- South African authorities started transferring hundreds of Zimbabwean nationals and some Malawians from a temporary processing center in Cape Town on Saturday.

Seeds from South Africa's world-famous rooibos tea are headed to the International Space Station to see how they respond to space conditions, in the first such experiment for Africa, organisers announ...