Cape Town doctor Elmi Muller and her team have pioneered a technique to transplant kidneys between HIV-positive donors and recipients.

The number of people living in informal dwellings in South Africa has dropped, according to a Stats SA survey released on Thursday. This year's survey confirmed a number of continuing positive trends related to service delivery.

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has congratulated South Africa on the progress it has made in the 16 years since it attained freedom.

US President Barack Obama on Sunday heaped praise on South Africa for taking the decision to become the first country to abandon a nuclear weapons program.

In this article, US Ambassador to South Africa, Donald Gips, explains why he thinks SA is a potential global innovation hub for the 21st Century. With the global perspective of an ambassador, he is able to see what many South Africans don't.

March 21, 2010, marks 50 years since 69 unarmed protestors were killed by South African police outside a police station in Sharpeville, south of Johannesburg.

Alexandra Township, a stone’s throw from Johannesburg’s plush Sandton suburbs, will get its first early childhood development (ECD) centre that is aimed at empowering and educating children below the age of six from the township.

The validity of a learner's license has been extended from 18 to 24 months and driving licence tests may now also be taken on Sundays.

The world's largest passenger aircraft, Air France-KLM's A380, flight number AF995 successfully landed at OR Tambo International Airport on Thursday.

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) said this is the second time the A380 has landed at the airport. The first time was in November 2006, when its manufacturer, Airbus Industries, was testing it.

Air France-KLM is the first airline to use the aircraft at the Johannesburg airport.

“I wish to put it plainly that the government has taken a firm decision to release Mr Mandela unconditionally. I am serious about bringing this matter to finality without delay.”

With those words, uttered on 2 February 1990, then-state president FW de Klerk set a remarkable chain of events in motion. An electorate that, to a large extent, was enjoying the right to vote for the first time in their lives, led to a democratic South Africa with one of the most progressive constitutions in the world.

South Africa will mark the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from more than 27 years of imprisonment at the opening of Parliament on 11 February.

South Africans should be proud of the progress made in overcoming the legacy of apartheid, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Tuesday.

Two southern African states - South Africa and Lesotho - have leapt into top 10 ranking of countries where women face the least discrimination, the World Economic Forum said Tuesday.

Development indicators have showed strides in reducing poverty but economists warned that advances relied heavily on social grants that may be rendered unsustainable by the recession.

Research from the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) released today revealed that black households in the highest income group (R750 thousand plus) grew dramatically during the past decade.

South Africans' living conditions are steadily improving, according to Statistics South Africa's latest General Household Survey, which registered increases in school attendance, satisfaction with health services, and ownership of houses, televisions and mobile phones.

South Africa was on the right track when it came to road safety, expert in the field Dr Pieter Venter said on Wednesday.

Former president Nelson Mandela visited Freedom Park in Pretoria on Thursday, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a statement.

Madiba's visit to the park, his first, came 10 years after he uttered these words: "The day should not be far off when we shall have a people's shrine... a freedom park, where we shall honour with all the dignity they deserve, those who endured pain so we should experience the joy of freedom".

The park's chief executive, Dr Wally Serote "showed Madiba around the park and expressed his gratitude that Madiba had made time to come and visit since he served as the pioneer of the concept of Freedom Park", the foundation said.

In 1959, when the gates of Orlando Stadium first opened and the grounds became the official home of the Johannesburg Bantu Football Association, few would have guessed that 50 years later the Brazilian national team would be training on that very same pitch.

The new IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook rankings place South Africa's overall competitiveness ranking at 48 out of 57 countries in 2009, a rise from its rank of 53 in the previous year.

Women’s representation in the South African national assembly has jumped to 45% since the country’s recent elections, giving South Africa a third place spot in the global women in parliament rankings. 

The latest statistics, which are based on political party candidate lists submitted to the IEC, show an 11% increase in the number of women in parliament. South Africa now sits just behind Rwanda and Sweden in the global rankings, who have 56% and 47% women’s representation in their respective parliaments. 

Almost a decade into the Zimbabwean crisis, South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs is introducing a permit that could regulate the status of thousands of undocumented migrants.

Since its inception in 2004, over six million South Africans have opened Mzansi bank accounts which provide previously un-banked clients easy access to banking services countrywide.

South Africa’s Internet population is expected to grow as much in the next five years as it has in the 15 years since the Internet became commercially available in South Africa.

The increased growth rate is expected to continue for the next five years, taking the Internet user population to the 9-million mark by 2014.

Among the factors driving this growth will be the arrival of undersea telecommunications cables, from as early as June this year.

The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) says that the number of women in the industry is on the rise, with the Council's female membership now exceeding the 2 000 mark. 

Buying insurance off-the-shelf, like prepaid cellphone starter-packs, has made it possible for South Africa's previously excluded, unbanked consumers to buy policies.