Labour's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband MP, speaks to the University of South Africa. Check against delivery. This is my first visit to South Africa as Foreign Secretary and I’m delighted to be here at the University of South Africa. The...

Eugene Terreblanche was a nasty thug. He was determined to keep South Africa a white supremacist state at all costs. He didn’t give a jot for anyone who wasn’t white, but his murder raises concerns about the future of South Africa. Is is estimated more than 3000 white farmers have been killed since the end of apartheid in 1994. South Africa’s political leadership has failed to ad...

You know, the way that it’s all done over the internet from Australia? PICS PLEASE New dinosaur discovered in South Africa Scientists in South Africa have hailed the discovery of a huge new dinosaur, Aardonyx celestae, that predates the giants of the Jurassic period. Hmm, still a few teething problems, eh?

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa's long-dominant governing party was racing against itself Friday, leaving its opponents far behind and closing in on its goal of doing as well or better than in the last elections....

The hottest story in cricket just now, if you are an England cricket fan like me, is the apparently near simultaneous resignations of the England captain and the England coach, but I think the bigger story in the long-run is the third test between Australia and South Africa, which Australia won this morning (my time). Had South Africa won, they would have won the series 3-0. As it was, they won th...

In London right now, it is an hour or more past 9 am. But in Cape Town, South Africa, just over an hour ago, it was 11:11 am, on the 11/11/11 (November 11th 2011), and South Africa needed 111 runs to win the international cricket match that they were playing against Australia. South Africa, sadly, were not 111-1, chasing 222. They were 126-1, chasing 236. So, time and date oddities aside, a cricke...

So David Cameron was another one who took the Strategy Network International shilling, was he? SNI was a front organisation for the apartheid regime in South Africa, supported by various mining, finance and defence interests in Southern Africa and specialised in inviting MPs and others on all-first-class expenses paid trips to the tribal homelands, where then South African government saw fit to du...

Energized by a split in the liberation movement which led South Africa to freedom, voters turned out in huge numbers for the country's fourth democratic elections on Wednesday, forcing electoral officials to keep polling stations open until late in the night in some places.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa's parliament elected Jacob Zuma as president Wednesday, celebrating the astonishing rise of a self-educated teenage goatherd who transformed himself into the charismatic leader of Africa's economic powerhouse....

The third game of the series between Alex and me, then (its rules explained here), and it's my turn with choice of country and first player. Time for the South African contest. Here are our two teams in the order...