
Grandson says Mandela's health improving
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela's health has improved, his grandson said Saturday as the 94-year-old spent his eighth day in the hospital ...

SAfrica: Mandela 'responding better to treatment'
Former President Nelson Mandela began responding better to treatment Wednesday morning for a recurring lung infection following "a difficult last few ...

Mandela daughters visit ill father in hospital
Doctors are doing all they can to improve Nelson Mandela's health as the 94-year-old icon spent a fourth day in the hospital for a recurring lung ...

South Africa: family visits Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela received visits from family members on Sunday at a hospital where the former president and anti-apartheid leader was being treated for ...

South Africa: Mandela has lung infection
South Africans on Saturday said their thoughts were with former President Nelson Mandela, who was in "serious but stable" condition after being taken ...

SAfrica: Mandela daughter talks about her father
Nelson Mandela, in the twilight of life, doesn't talk much anymore, his eldest daughter says. But the former South African president, who wrote of his ...

South Africa: Soweto resident shows off her snakes
Tourists have long flocked to the home-turned-museum of former President Nelson Mandela on Vilakazi Street, a lively strip of restaurants, curio ...

South Africa: Winnie Mandela forced auction flops
There were no bidders and no locksmiths willing to force entry for a scheduled auction Tuesday to sell artworks and other belongings of Nelson ...
South Africa: Winnie Mandela's items to be sold
Dozens of paintings, a silver tea set and other items belonging to Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie will be auctioned next week to pay off debts she ...

SAfrica: officials suspended over wedding scandal
Five South African officials, including police and military commanders, have been suspended after a chartered plane carrying about 200 guests from ...
South Africa: Mandela grandchildren speak out
The family of Nelson Mandela sought on Thursday to present a united front in a dispute with longtime associates of the former South African president ...
Rift over Mandela companies deepens
A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has harshly criticized a longtime associate of the former president and anti-apartheid leader, in an escalation of ...

South Africa: Mandela discharged from the hospital
Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday following treatment for pneumonia, the presidency said in news that cheered ...

SAfrica: Mandela responds positively to treatment
Nelson Mandela was back in the hospital for the third time in four months Thursday, and the 94-year-old former South African president was reported ...

S.Africa: Nigerian 2010 bomb suspect gets 24 years
A South African court sentenced a Nigerian to 24 years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of masterminding twin car bombings in Nigeria.
SAfrica investigates second dragged man case
A South African police officer has been arrested for allegedly dragging a man from a police vehicle in the second such incident in recent weeks.

South Africa police denied bail in dragging case
Nine South African police officers charged with murdering a Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged from a police vehicle have been denied bail.

South Africa holds bail hearing for charged police
A Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged from a South African police vehicle died from lack of oxygen and also suffered extensive head lacerations, ...

Relief in South Africa as Mandela leaves hospital
The building that houses South Africa's highest court, made partly with bricks from an apartheid-era prison, symbolizes what Nelson Mandela hoped his ...

South Africa: Mandela in hospital for tests
Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader, was admitted to a hospital on Saturday for a scheduled medical check-up ...

SAfrican police go to court in man dragged case
One of nine South African police officers charged with murdering a taxi driver who was dragged from a police vehicle testified Friday that the man ...
SAfrica: apartheid hit squad leader dies
Dirk Coetzee, a former commander of a covert police unit in apartheid-era South Africa who confessed to involvement in the extra-judicial killings of ...

SAfrica: Memorial held for man dragged by police
The wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Wednesday attended a memorial service for the man who died in police custody after being ...

Catholics ponder future with new pope
Faithful attending Sunday Mass on five continents for the first time since Pope Benedict XVI's retirement had different ideas about who should next ...