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Looks like South African runner Caster Semenya will be able to keep the gold medal she won at the recent world championships in Berlin. Complete Story...
South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday.
The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and career.
The prosthetic legs of double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius give the South African a 10-second advantage over a 400-meter race, according to a new study.
Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.
An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.
Caster Semenya's lawyers say she was tricked into speaking to a reporter at The Guardian for a story in the British newspaper.
The South African track chief who lied about his role in runner Caster Semenya's gender tests was suspended Thursday.
British mercenary Simon Mann has threatened to settle some old scores after arriving home Wednesday following more than five years in African jails for a failed plot to take over Equatorial Guinea's oil riches.
The International Olympic Committee will convene a special conference of medical experts to draw up guidelines for dealing with "ambiguous" gender cases in the wake of South African runner Caster Semenya's sex-test controversy.
The head of South African organizers for next year's World Cup thinks a successful tournament could lead to the Olympics being hosted on that continent for the first time in 2020.
The South African government plans to overhaul the way South African cities are governed and funded in the wake of a series of violent protests, officials said Tuesday.
A champion runner at the center of a gender controversy is set to take university final exams, her father said Friday, contradicting earlier reports she was too traumatized to study.
Protesters barricaded a major highway with rocks and burning tires Thursday, clashing with police who fired on them with rubber bullets. Youths retaliated with slingshots and threw rocks.
World track and field's governing body will start examining next week how to determine gender in an athletics context, an initiative spurred by the case of 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya.
South African authorities say police have arrested a man accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his mother.
South Africa's ruling party condemned the country's track body Friday after a board member said they will not fire the track association's president, who admitted he lied about gender tests done on runner Caster Semenya.
South Africa's murder rate — one of the world's highest — has dropped slightly, but the country faces a distressing rise in rapes, robberies and hijackings, South African police said Tuesday.
The U.S. Embassy and other American offices in South Africa are expected to reopen Friday after being closed for two days because of unspecified security concerns.
South African track officials will meet this week to discuss the future of their president, who admitted to lying about his role in the gender-test case of runner Caster Semenya.
South African police say they've busted an international drug smuggling syndicate housed in a warehouse with African souvenirs.
In a Sept. 11 story about gender testing for Caster Semenya, The Associated Press incorrectly described the South African runners winning time in the 800-meter women's race at the world championships in Berlin on Aug. 19. Her time of 1 minute, 55.45 seconds was a world best for the season, not a world record.
Zakes Mokae, the Tony-winning South African actor best known for his work with playwright Athol Fugard in such apartheid dramas as "The Blood Knot" and "Master Harold ... and the boys," has died at the age of 75.
South African runner Caster Semenya's eligibility to compete as a woman is no clearer — even though reports say she has female and male organs.
Caster Semenya has withdrawn from a weekend race amid speculation about the South African runner's gender.
Don't press which button? This one or . A civilian passenger in a South African military jet accidentally pressed the ejector button, launching him out of the aircraft. The parachute deployed.
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German teen victim of 'South African Fritzl'A man is being called the Josef Frtizl of South Africa after he allegedly made his visiting 18-year-old German daughter his sex slave for two months, a South African newspaper reported.
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Two South African suspects in Filipino GRO's murderAuthorities now have in their custody the three suspects in the murder of a guest relations officer (GRO) in Valle Verde III, Barangay Ugong, Quezon City.
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50 Cent Dethrones Jay-Z, Tops Forbes 'Hip-Hop Cash Kings' ListYou've read about the $150 million deal with Live Nation, bought the hit American Gangster album and gone to see the smash, sold-out tour with Mary J. Blige.
Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy fail to impress photographer"The girlfriends are not so pretty."
S Africa Chinese want to be blackChinese communities in South Africa are taking the government to court over laws which they say discriminate against them. The Chinese Association of South Africa says it wants its members to be included in the definition of "black people" in constitutional laws.
'Labour's plans for 90-day detention echo the power of apartheid police' Gordon Brown has been warned by a veteran of the South African anti-apartheid movement that he must withdraw plans to extend detention without charge or face a parliamentary battle royal.
Rethinking AIDS Strategy After a String of Failures DURBAN, South Africa -- Few cases of AIDS have been as closely scrutinized as that of a former South African prostitute named Beauty. Scientists know when this 40-year-old woman became infected, how her body responded and what happened as her immune system collapsed.
South African HIV trial suffers setbackChristina Scott -21 September 2007 SciDev.Net Africa's biggest HIV vaccine trial were stopped today (21 September) after a sister study testing the same experimental vaccine in US men found no protection against infection.
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Poppy, 'heroine' of Soweto uprising, dies at 48Poppy Buthelezi, shot by South Africa's police on the first day of the June 1976 Soweto uprising and since confined to a wheelchair, has died aged 48, her close companion said Friday.
Fury as Mugabe, the unlikely pop star, storms the chartsHis country may be starving and the infrastructure collapsing, but the 83-year-old President, Robert Mugabe, has become an unlikely pop star in Zimbabwe.
'Massive' gem dug up in S AfricaA small South African mining company has claimed to have discovered the world's biggest-ever diamond. A shareholder in the unnamed mine told the BBC the stone had been unearthed at their operation in the north-west province on Monday afternoon.
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The Economy of Zimbabwe Is Destroyed - TB and Malnutrition Are On the Rise as Nationwide Pricefixing Ravages the Economy Robert Mugabe has ruled over this benighted country, his every wish endorsed by Parliament and implemented by the police and military, for more than 27 years. It appears, however, that not even an unchallenged autocrat can repeal the laws of supply and demand.
Rescue package for Zimbabwe would peg dollar to randSouthern African governments are preparing to offer President Robert Mugabe a dramatic plan to rescue the shattered Zimbabwean economy in exchange for political reforms.
Tutu warns on gulf between rich and poorThe gap between rich and poor is widening in South Africa threatening to sweep away the gains brought about by democracy since 1994 Desmond Tutu the former archbishop ofCape Town has warned.
What if the Earth really is round? In today's world any attempt to explain the Arab-Israeli conflict in terms other than "Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land" and the "denial of Palestinian nationalist aspiration" is often regarded like a declaration that the earth is flat and the center of the univers …
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