When people are jobless and hungry, when politicians enrich themselves while services collapse, democracy begins to look ...

No perpetrators have been brought to justice after 1977 death-in-detention of famed anti-apartheid leader, Steve Biko.

Seth Mazibuko strides into the intersection of Moema and Vilakazi Street in Soweto, gesturing to the spot that changed South African history. “This is where the students who were marching peacefully ...

Thirty years after it scrapped racial segregation, South Africa seeks to recover a founding story that inspired ideas of ...

Ethiopia will organise the continent’s most farcical poll in 2026. South Africa and Zambia offer some hope, but Uganda and South Sudan face bleak elections ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa is in a moment of deep soul-searching after an election that brought a jarring split from the African National Congress, the very party that gave it freedom ...

A new chapter in South Africa's long-running Zuma saga is set to begin with the 43-year-old daughter of the former president ...

UNIDENTIFIED VOTER #1: We can't even describe the feelings, but we are just so happy that at long last, we have been given this opportunity to vote. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Almost exactly 30 years ago, ...

Fewer than half of South Africans actively support democracy, and for the first time in over 25 years, more citizens say they would accept military rule than oppose it. Those are some of the recent ...

To reach audiences susceptible to authoritarian messaging, defenders of democracy must adapt – creating authentic, locally rooted, emotionally resonant content that can compete on the same terrain.

An ambitious project to construct South Africa’s first new harbour in three decades finds an unlikely home in southern KZN ...