JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It took a distraught Lindie Mdluli several days to summon the courage to go to a South African police station after she was raped in 2007. When she got there, Mdluli says ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It took a distraught Lindie Mdluli several days to summon the courage to go to a South African police station after she was raped in 2007. When she got there, Mdluli says ...

A data analysis by The New York Times shows that a form of torture popular during apartheid endures in the country despite ...

We could show that between 10,000 and 1,300 years ago, no ancestry from outside present-day South Africa arrived at Oakhurst rock shelter. This genetic continuity over a long time is remarkable.

Analysis - For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built ...

In recent years, Winfrey has built a school in South Africa. Rap superstar Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has launched plans to build 1,000 water pumps throughout the continent.

Analysis - Biochemists study life on a molecular level. So, as a biochemist, it made sense to investigate my own existence at that deepest of levels, which is why I had my DNA sequenced - my ...