"This is the only hustle we know," miners tell the BBC as they try their luck at the site in Springs.

By Kopano Gumbi PRETORIA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's unemployment rate fell modestly in the fourth quarter, reaching its lowest in over five years as jobs were added in social services, construction and finance,

South Africa’s second-largest political party faces some internal pressure to quit the ruling coalition, but doing so would damage its growth prospects and be a “big mistake,” its outgoing leader said.

Serving in the South African government for the first time, the Democratic Alliance (DA) - perceived as primarily representing racial minorities - portrays itself as a squeaky clean party but has suffered a major blow after its leader John Steenhuisen became engulfed in several scandals.

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Global commodity trader Vitol is backing a consortium planning to build a $3 billion gas-fired power station and liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility at South Africa's east coast Durban port,

Rising remuneration among Black South Africans has dramatically changed the racial makeup of the country’s band of middle- and top-income earners over the course of three decades of democratic rule, a new study has found.

One of just five South African athletes to compete at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, cross-country skier Matthew Smith's Olympic journey has been anything but typical.

South Africa's fast bowlers Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen are proving effective at the T20 World Cup with deceptive changes in pace and length, rather than raw speed. They have claimed 15 wickets between them in the group stage,