Confronted by surging hospitalizations due to the coronavirus, South Africa is also reinstating a night curfew to reduce traffic accidents and made it mandatory for all residents to wear face masks when in public.

Police in South Africa say five people are dead and more than 40 have been arrested after an early-morning hostage situation at a church near Johannesburg.

The doctors, including community health and infectious disease specialists, arrived early Monday morning and were welcomed by military and health authorities.

The sleepy lion pride typically lives in an area not seen by tourists.

Canadians struggling to get home from South Africa amid coronavirus lockdowns say they're frustrated by a lack of communication from the Canadian government.

Shannon Battersby, stranded in South Africa by a coronavirus lockdown, received an email from Global Affairs Canada stating that a government-organized flight home could cost her $5,000.

A Sherwood Park couple is stranded in South Africa amid a nationwide lockdown. They are calling on the Canadian government for help getting home.

South Africa’s coronavirus cases jumped again to 709, the health minister said Wednesday, as the country with the most cases in Africa prepared to go into lockdown first thing Friday.

Pirate Radio was a weapon used by the African congress to inspire Black South Africans and counter propaganda and misinformation by the apartheid government.

The shooting is being investigated as a possible culpable homicide.