Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

A Bloemfontein man was arrested after police found him holding a human head, and he confessed to murder, saying he did it to ...

JOHANNESBURG and LONDON -- At least nine people were killed early Sunday as a group of assailants opened fired with pistols ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called ...

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as "regrettable" the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa would not be invited to take part in next year's G20 summit in ...

The president did not attend this year’s annual gathering in South Africa, which has been a frequent target of his attacks. By John Eligon Reporting from Johannesburg President Trump said on Wednesday ...

World leaders are gathering in Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic capital, this weekend for the annual Group of 20 (G20) leaders’ summit – the first ever to be held in an African country amid a ...