EGYPTIAN JOURNALIST NAMED 'INDIVIDUAL ACTIVIST' WINNER OF 2017 MANDELA AWARD

Egyptians recall day of beir al abed mosque attack... READ MORE›

JUBILANTION AS ZIMBABWEANS CELEBRATE THE ENDING OF MUGABE'S GRIP ON POWER

Jubilantion on the streets of Zimbabwe's capital as protesters celebrate the expected fall of President Robert Mugabe, their leader of the last 37 years... READ MORE›

COURT POSTPONES SENTENCING WHITE FARMERS IN COFFIN CASE

Deep-seated racial inequality persists in South Africa two decades after the end of white-minority apartheid rule... READ MORE›

COURT TO SENTENCE WHITES WHO SHOVED BLACK MAN IN COFFIN

Deep seated racial inequality persists in South Africa two decades after the end of white-minority apartheid rule... READ MORE›

CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS STIRS ECHOES OF SOUTH AFRICA

But go back to South Africa circa 1983, and the approach might seem familiar... READ MORE›

MANDELA BOOK SEQUEL LAUNCHED IN S AFRICA

The new instalment of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, has been released in Johannesburg... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN JUDGE RULES ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST AHMED TIMOL WAS PUSHED TO HIS DEATH BY POLICE

Timol, a 29-year-old school teacher, was a recruiter for the South African Communist Party... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA JUDGE RULES POLICE MURDERED ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST IN 1971

Officers from feared security branch said Ahmed Timol killed himself, but judge concludes they were responsible in historic ruling... READ MORE›

HERE'S AFRICA'S LARGEST CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INSIDE 42 OLD GRAIN SILOS

South Africa is host to Africa's largest contemporary art museum opened in the port city of Cape Town... READ MORE›

WHY GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ON REFUGEES MATTERS

Over the past six years, the cost of hosting 1.3 million Syrian refugees has exceeded 2 billion annually... READ MORE›

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MEP WHO SAID WOMEN ARE 'SMALLER, WEAKER, LESS INTELLIGENT' AND SHOULD BE PAID LESS SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY

6 13 Miriam Makeba A South African singer and civil rights activist born in Johannesburg in 1932, she was forced to work as a child following her father's death... READ MORE›

DESMOND TUTU: I WANT RIGHT TO END MY LIFE THROUGH ASSISTED DYING

Terminally ill people 'should have right to choose a dignified assisted death', he writes in article published on his 85th birthday... READ MORE›

ANTI-APARTHEID ICON AHMED KATHRADA DIES

Kathrada, beloved by millions of South Africans, spent 26 years in jail, many of them alongside Nelson Mandela... READ MORE›

ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST AHMED KATHRADA DIES AGED 87

South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, a Robben Island prisoner and one of Nelson Mandela's closest colleagues in the struggle against white rule, has died aged 87... READ MORE›

PROTESTS OVER BLACK GIRLS' HAIR REKINDLE DEBATE ABOUT RACISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Outrage over the Pretoria girls' claims is part of a broader debate that has gained traction in South Africa in the past year... READ MORE›

FIDEL CASTRO, A SOUTH AFRICAN HERO

Angola survived in large part because Cuba sent its soldiers to give their lives for the freedom of the people of Angola, Namibia and South Africa... READ MORE›

SA APARTHEID ASSASSIN GIVEN PAROLE

Related Stories South African apartheid-era death squad commander Eugene de Kock has been granted parole after 20 years in jail... READ MORE›

PROTESTING STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE IN SOUTH AFRICA

South African police have used tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades against students protesting for free education in Johannesburg... READ MORE›

De Klerk, South Africa's last white president, but neither of them alluded to the Dalai Lama... READ MORE›

REMEMBERING THE ANTI-APARTHEID GIANT AHMED KATHRADA

OPINION The Mandela legacy Jacob Zuma's absence Noticeably absent from the funeral was South African president Jacob Zuma... READ MORE›

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU 'WANTS RIGHT TO ASSISTED DEATH'

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu has revealed that he wants to have the option of an assisted death... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA BARS AMERICAN PASTOR WHO CALLS GAY PEOPLE 'PERVERTS'

After the outcry from the LGBT community, Anderson said he didn't plan to focus on the issue of homosexuality while in South Africa... READ MORE›

15 OF NELSON MANDELA'S MOST INSPIRING QUOTES

Mandela Day 15 of Nelson Mandela's most inspiring quotes... READ MORE›

ROBERT MUGABE ISN'T SLEEPING WHEN HE CLOSES HIS EYES DURING MEETINGS, SPOKESMAN SAYS

If you happen to spot Robert Mugabe with his eyes closed for long periods during a high-level meeting, don't worry... READ MORE›

WHITE SCHOOLS VS BLACK HAIR

Until we dismantle the continued white domination of post-apartheid South Africa, Mr. Mandela's children will not find freedom in the Rainbow Nation... READ MORE›

VOICES FROM BURUNDI SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES

Ms. Nivyabandi also fled Burundi in 1993, when civil war erupted after soldiers from the country's Tutsi minority assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority... READ MORE›

OCCUPY CONVERGE ON CENTRAL LONDON TO SET UP CAMP OUTSIDE WESTMINSTER

Anthony Devlin PA Wire Police surround Parliament Square as protestors from the Occupy group hold a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament, London... READ MORE›

THE ANC IS MANDELA'S LEGACY. NOW HIS GRANDDAUGHTER HAS RENOUNCED SOUTH AFRICA'S RULING PARTY.

Ndileka Mandela, the eldest granddaughter of the late former South African president, arrives at the Johannesburg Magistrates Court in 2015... READ MORE›

STUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA PROTEST SLOW PACE OF CHANGE

Mr. Mahapa 23 grew up in a village with only black South Africans and he graduated at the top of his high school class... READ MORE›

JAPAN SAYS HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS WITH MILITANTS DEADLOCKED

His crimes became emblematic of some of the worst abuses in the apartheid era... READ MORE›

JAPAN SAYS HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS WITH MILITANTS DEADLOCKED

His crimes became emblematic of some of the worst abuses in the apartheid era... READ MORE›

JACOB ZUMA DROPS BID TO BLOCK CORRUPTION REPORT

The surprise move on Wednesday came as thousands of people began to take to the streets of the administrative capital, Pretoria, to demand his departure... READ MORE›

HOW A UK POP SONG HELPED FREE ICON

'Free Nelson Mandela' was effective for two reasons, Gambaccini said... READ MORE›

CHINESE COMMUNITY JOINS S. AFRICANS IN MARKING MANDELA DAY BY HELPING THE POOR

The Chinese community in Cape Town joined South Africans on Tuesday in marking the Nelson Mandela International Day by helping the poor... READ MORE›

SOWETO UPRISING 40 YEARS ON: THE IMAGE THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD

But Zongezile Makhubo insists that, despite all the problems facing South Africa and Soweto 40 years after the uprising, he is hopeful... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE AND ANTI-ZUMA PROTESTERS CLASH IN PRETORIA

South African police and anti-Zuma protesters clash in Pretoria... READ MORE›

ALLISTER SPARKS, DAUNTLESS SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALIST, DIES AT 83

Allister Haddon Sparks was born in Cathcart, in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, on March 10, 1933... READ MORE›

HARRY POTTER ACTOR ROBBIE COLTRANE RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER SUFFERING SEVERE FLU SYMPTOMS ON FLIGHT

It's mixed feelings, which is something we've gotten used to as South Africans, Makue told The Associated Press in a telephone interview... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE USE FORCE TO DISPERSE ANTI-IMMIGRATION PROTESTERS

A statement issued by President Jacob Zuma's office said South Africans should not blame all crime on foreign nationals... READ MORE›

AHMED KATHRADA, ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST, DIES

Ahmed Kathrada was one of South Africa's revered anti-apartheid activists... READ MORE›