South Africa

South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, on Sunday, lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry. Zuma compared them…

South Africa’s top court on Tuesday handed former president Jacob Zuma a 15-month jail term for contempt of court following his refusal to appear before graft…

Spain on Tuesday extended a ban on arrivals from Brazil and South Africa until May 25 to curb the spread of new coronavirus strains. Only legal residents or nationals of…

South Africa has sold a million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for distribution in 14 fellow African nations, the health minister announced Sunday. The…

South Africa is considering swapping or selling the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus, the health minister says. Plans to use it to vaccinate health workers…

South Africa has put its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on hold after a study showed "disappointing" results against its new Covid variant. Scientists say the…

South Africa on Monday took delivery of its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines, a move paving the way to the first phase of inoculation in Africa’s worst-hit country.…

Botswana, Zambia, Gambia and Kenya have detected a variant of the Covid-19 virus that was first identified in South Africa last year, the World Health Organization (WHO)…

Dubai-based airline Emirates says it will suspend all flights to and from South Africa from 16 to 28 January. The decision had been taken for operational reasons, it said,…

‎Nigeria’s yearly exports to South Africa now exceeded $3.8bn‎,  the Consul General of Nigeria to South Africa, Abdulmalik Ahmed, said on Friday. ‎ Ahmed disclosed this at…