At the time when the Black Lives Matter campaign is spreading across the world, it is more important than ever for South ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Young people in the new South Africa are struggling to confront AIDS, sexual violence and poverty. Thirty years ago, their predecessors fought to bring down a racist ...

Stadium tragedy: 43 lives lost and lessons still unlearned 24 years later. 24 years after the Ellis Park Stadium disaster claimed 43 lives, survivors share their raw gr ...

SOWETO, South Africa -- President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans on a march Friday in the footsteps of children whose bloody uprising 30 years ago reshaped the struggle to end apartheid.

A South African photographer, who captured the iconic black-and-white picture of a dying 13-year-old activist shot by apartheid police during the 1976 Soweto uprising, has died. His photograph of a ...

World Refugee Day is commemorated to highlight the challenges faced by people displaced by conflict or persecution. It occurs ...

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