Shakirah Thebus

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...

Zimbabwean farmworker Aaron Majatamhe was heading home at sunset after a shift in one of South Africa's top fruit-producing regions, where bushes laden with bright unpicked citrus stood in rows.

Mass migrant exodus leaves South African farms and factories struggling AFP, Chris Makhaye and Shakirah Thebus |

CAPE TOWN, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- South Africa on Wednesday marked World Elephant Day with a call for collective efforts to protect the country's

CAPE TOWN, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's Parliament on Wednesday held a solutions-based summit as part of its inquiry into persistent gang-related violent crime.

Winged workers: How a flock of ducks became farm's pest control squad Shakirah Thebus / AFP |

CAPE TOWN, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Masses of dead sardines along South Africa's southwestern coastline have disrupted operations at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, local media reported Monday.