A South African government official is proposing a complete ban on digitally distributed pornography. Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba has approached the country’s Law Reform Commission to ask whether a change in the law is possible. Read the full story

Apartheid-era documents declassified by South Africa have revealed the nation was offered nuclear weapons by Israel in 1975. Read the full story

The remarkable remains of two ancient human-like creatures (hominids) have been found in South Africa. The fossils of a female adult and a juvenile male – perhaps mother and son – are just under two million years old. Read the full story

South African President Jacob Zuma has appealed for calm after the killing of the white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche. Read the full story

Nelson Mandela has been accused by his former wife of betraying South Africa’s black population. Read the full story

Nelson Mandela denounced US sanctions against Cuba before bestowing South Africa’s highest civilian order for foreigners on Cuban President Fidel Castro here Friday. Read the full story

South Africa’s main opposition party has accused the country’s president of contradicting the government’s message on HIV/Aids prevention. Read the full story

The wife of South Africa’s intelligence minister has been arrested on drug-dealing charges. Sheryl Cwele, the 50-year-old wife of Siyabonga Cwele, appeared in court charged with conspiring to bring cocaine into the country. Read the full story

A British company is cashing in on security concerns around the World Cup and is marketing “stab proof” vests branded with the flags of competing countries, to soccer fans heading for South Africa in June. Read the full story

With up to half a million football fans expected to visit South Africa for the World Cup, and up to half of South Africa’s prostitutes carrying the HIV virus, there have been calls for the country to decriminalize prostitution to help tackle the spread of HIV. Read the full story