According to Statistics South Africa, an estimated 40.0% of the population (or 25 million people) have a monthly consumption expenditure of below R9,096 (which is used as the lower-bound poverty ...

Public demonstrations have become common in South Africa as communities protest against the ruling African National Congress JOHANNESBURG (AP) — […] The post South Africa will mark 30 years of ...

South Africa’s unemployment rate stands at a staggering 33.5%, one of the highest in the world. Coupled with an alarming poverty rate – where more than half of the population lives on less ...

Like many things in South Africa, the school that Kunene remembers has changed, and what used to be a school hall has now been turned into several classrooms. “I somehow wish we could go back to ...

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth registration, with some people waiting for seven years for a response ...

Speaking at an international conference in Durban, South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has said that violence in Africa can be attributed to limited resources and the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As 72-year-old Nonki Kunene walks through the corridors of Thabisang Primary School in Soweto, South Africa, she recalls the joy she and many others felt 30 years ago when ...