Up to 200 students have fled from an army base in South Africa after a recent bout of mass hysteria.
A woman in South Africa has identity papers to back up her claim that she was born in 1894.
A rocky hilltop discovered in South Africa is believed to be an ancient shaman rainmaking ritual site.
Large numbers of hungry Giant African Land Snails have descended upon Florida in their thousands.
The two-million-year-old fossil remains of an ancient human ancestor have been uncovered in South Africa.
Mysterious grassless rings appearing in the South African desert are believed to be made by termites.
Reports of objects in the skies over the Cape Town coast have been on the increase in recent weeks.
Elephants are now believed to have four distinct personalities to help them survive in the African bush.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the most complete ever pre-human skeleton at a dig site in South Africa.
Stephen McCullah is leading an expedition to the jungles of Africa in search of a living dinosaur.
Elephant populations in Africa are at risk of extinction due to increased ivory demand in China.
The Bururi long-fingered frog has been found alive and well in Africa having not been seen since 1949.
The fossilised bones from a 3.4 million-year-old human ancestor have been found in Africa.
Residents in Namibia have reported being terrorised by a strange half-dog, half-pig hybrid creature.
Skygazers in Free State remain puzzled over sightings of a number of strange fireballs in the sky.
A Google Earth user has discovered a UFO in the skies over Cape Town in South Africa.
In a highly controversial story this week it has been claimed that 200 bodies have been found in Africa.
Unexplained spontaneous fires are plaguing a South African family while fire-fighters remain baffled.
New evidence suggests homo erectus may have originated in Asia and not Africa as previously thought.
In 1895 John Medley Wood came across an unusual tree in Africa - the rare and ancient E. woodii.