"We did a good job of reinventing and bringing him (Mandela) back," Freeman told journalists at the premiere of Clint Eastwood's new film "Invictus" outside Johannesburg.

Cellphone rates will be reduced by 36 cents from early next year, Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda announced on Thursday.

Scientists at the University of Witwatersrand on Wednesday announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur.

"It's one of the big jewels South Africa has," Dr Adam Yates, from the Bernard Price Institute for Paleontological Research, told journalists in Johannesburg.

Nelson Mandela will release a new memoir focusing on the best of his personal archives and letters from his time as anti-apartheid activist and former South African president.

South Africans are more optimistic now than they were earlier this year, a market research company said on Tuesday.

The legal fraternity and political parties on Thursday warmly congratulated new Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo on his appointment by President Jacob Zuma.

A 507 carat white diamond was discovered at the historic Cullinan mine, Petra Diamonds said on Tuesday. The diamond, which has yet to be named, is considered to be amongst the top 20 largest high quality rough diamonds ever found worldwide and ranks alongside other illustrious diamonds recovered at the celebrated Cullinan mine.

Part cooking method, part national obsession, the braai is a shared social custom that cuts across race and social divisions 15 years after the fall of white minority rule.

South African Air Force helicopters airlifted the crew of a stricken ship to safety shortly before it sank off the West Coast on Thursday afternoon.

Brothers Sebastian and Christiaan Vivier may seem like regular young boys as they fidget on the couch in their father’s office, but having just returned from Russia where they climbed Mount Elbrus, one can safely say that they are not your average kids.