SHORTLY after the violent race riots in South Africa, the Minister for Foreign Affairs announced at a press conference: “South Africa is rapidly returning to normal.” This was a surprising statement ...

THE Treason Trial is now a byword in South Africa. It is three years old; its preparatory examination lasted fourteen months; it has been broken into several trials. It adjourns for months to enable ...

South Africa's gross domestic product contracted by an annualized 51% in the second quarter of 2020, its fourth consecutive economic decline recorded. Restrictions to curb the impact of COVID-19 ...

The South African government reopened an inquest into his death in April as part of a move to investigate high-profile apartheid-era killings that were allegedly covered up by authorities at the time.

The year 1960 was to be crucial for Africa: 17 sub-Saharan countries became independent from their European colonisers, 14 of them from France. - 9: Zambia independence leader Kenneth Kaunda is ...