• Coverage, analysis, photo and video coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup from Brazil

  • South African Olympic star Oscar Pistorius appeared in court after being charged with murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home. The Pistorius family issued a statement disputing the murder charge

  • South African running star Oscar Pistorius -- the first double-amputee to run at the Olympics -- will appear in court on murder charges after a woman was shot dead at his residence

  • Oscar Pistorius, known as 'Blade Runner' for his use of carbon fiber prosthetic blades in Olympic competition, has been charged with murder for allegedly killing his girlfriend at his home

  • Two South African women may have helped unlock the key to a vaccine to rid the world of one its deadliest epidemics, according to new research released by South African HIV experts

  • Sexual violence and the subsequent spread of HIV is 'regrettably common' in South Africa's prisons. The severe rate of overcrowding exacerbates the situation

  • South Africa is hosting this year's Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, but you would not know it to look around Johannesburg. It is a far cry from the mania that washed over South Africa when it hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup

  • Measures implemented in South Africa over the past four years have failed to defuse continuing resentment of foreigners or to ensure justice for victims of xenophobic violence

  • Brandishing a plea for developed countries to make good their promises to reduce carbon emissions, 300 farmers, youths and activists took the scenic route to the COP17 conference in Durban, travelling more than 7,000km from Burundi in 17 days, through 10 eastern and southern African countries, aboard a convoy of buses draped in various national flags

  • South Africa has chosen World AIDS Day 2011 to launch its new national strategic plan that, for the first time, will guide not only the national fight against HIV but also tuberculosis (TB) until 2016. The document contains several major policy changes, including the immediate provision of lifelong antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to all HIV-positive mothers and TB patients, as well as a focus on positive prevention

  • Doreen Sibanda, 27, was among the first undocumented Zimbabwean nationals to be deported in early October 2011 after South Africa apparently lifted its more than two year moratorium on expulsions imposed following widespread xenophobic violence in 2008

  • Mothers, babies and newly diagnosed HIV patients are receiving more of the services they need but progress comes at a cost, according to a new report that predicts a funding shortfall for HIV treatment in South Africa

  • Genetically modified food aid bound for Africa has long been a bone of contention among governments, scientists, activists, consumers and aid workers

  • A report released by Human Rights Watch shows that maternal deaths have quadrupled in South Africa

  • In the space of four weeks the vuvuzela became the defining sound, shape and buzzword of Africa's first FIFA World Cup. It is on everyone's lips -- both literally and figuratively -- and is likely to gets its place in the Oxford English dictionary some time soon