LONDON -- Bongani Sibeko was just a toddler when he and his family were forced to flee their home in apartheid South Africa, as Black men, women and children were dying at the hands of authorities ...

White South Africans who support President Donald Trump and South African and U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk gather in front of the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria on Feb. 15.

Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning "apart-hood," is a system of legalized segregation that was widely practiced in South Africa and enacted by law by the white-ruled Nationalist Party in 1948.

South Africa’s revolution was no longer against the apartheid regime, but against the H.I.V.-pandemic, against grinding poverty and joblessness — all mismanaged by the governing party.

What is the debate about land reform in South Africa? Many Black South Africans are frustrated with how long land reform has taken since the end of apartheid in 1994. According to government ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a judicial inquiry into allegations of political interference in the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes. The announcement comes three decades ...

Despite the uncertainty, South African opposition parties were hailing the new political picture as a much-needed change for the country of 62 million, which is Africa's most developed but also ...

When South Africa becomes a republic in the '60s, it hangs onto South West Africa, and it becomes a South African colony. But the population, big part of the population was of German ancestry.

ECONOMY South Africa's GDP per capita increased steadily in the years following the advent of democracy but that trend has reversed since 2011. By 2023, it was below the average for emerging ...

Tara Moore’s “Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa,” which opens the 45th edition of the Durban Intl. Film Festival on July 18, is the South African-born, U.S.-based actor and ...

The US anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and ’80s offers a useful blueprint for today’s movements to follow—especially those working to end American support for Israel’s military rule ...