JOHANNESBURG

Abuja –  President Muhammadu Buhari has again acknowledged the role played by former president Goodluck Jonathan in midwifing a peaceful and successful transition programme in the country. He said this on Sunday in his address to the AU…

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has enlisted a team of forensic investigators from the United States for his murder trial which begins next year, his spokeswoman said Tuesday. The investigators will work with his…

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South African police said Wednesday they had arrested a 50-year-old woman for ordering the assassination of her two sons as part of a suspected life insurance scam. Police said the woman from Port Shepstone,…

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa’s Paralympic sprint star Oscar Pistorius has launched a bid to negotiate an out-of-court deal to pay damages to the parents of his lover whom he killed on Valentine’s Day, a local newspaper said Tuesday.…

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – US President Barack Obama paid warm tribute to South Africa’s Nelson Mandela for his 95th birthday on Thursday, which the anti-apartheid icon will spend in hospital recovering from a lung infection. Obama’s…

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Nelson Mandela’s doctors have rejected the idea of turning off the ailing icon’s life support unless he suffers massive organ failure, a close family friend told AFP. Denis Goldberg — an anti-apartheid activist…

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Nearly 15 years ago Nelson Mandela was unperturbed by his own death, telling a dying teenager that he had lived his life to the full. The video dating from 1998, broadcast by American news channel CBS on Thursday…

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Doctors treating Nelson Mandela said he was in a “permanent vegetative state” and advised his family to turn off his life support machine a week ago, according to court documents obtained by AFP Thursday. “He is…

JOHANNESBURG – Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is improving in hospital as he fights a recurrent lung infection and is not ‘going to die tomorrow,’ former South African president Thabo Mbeki has said. The 94-year-old who became South…

JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela’s wife Graca Machel thanked the world on Monday for its messages of support for the ailing anti-apartheid icon which she said had eased “the burden of anxiety”. South Africa’s first black president, 94, was…