South Africa is the most diversified and technologically advanced economy in Africa and has had a vibrant democracy since the end of apartheid in the mid-1990s.

South Africa's crisis of gender-based violence needs more than slogans and summits to fix, and the impact of government's interventions cannot be fully effective without data and performance ...

Across South Africa, from Tembisa to Tokai, Venda to Valhalla, there is a rampant crisis in our educational institutions. And this crisis continues to spread to high school, tertiary, and beyond. This ...

In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gave an address to the nation in June about what he called a war against women in South Africa. “Violence is ...

Continental ties You may wonder what this has got to do with the current violence, predominantly directed against African migrants in South Africa.Twenty odd years after the fall of apartheid, the ...

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PRETORIA, South Africa. (AP) — A crowd of protesters staged a demonstration against gender-based violence in the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday as part of a national outcry after an ...

Food and fuel shortages in South Africa have grown so severe amid deadly rioting and looting that ... Violence has been spreading in protest of former President Jacob Zuma beginning a 15-month ...

South Africa's premier tertiary institution, the University of Cape Town (UCT), has been wracked by violence since the campus opened its doors for the new academic year in February.

JOHANNESBURG — Declaring that the nation is reeling from public violence “rarely seen before in the history of our democracy,” South Africa’s president on Monday deployed the military in ...

Small, isolated incidents occurred in South Africa's cities between 2008 and 2015, but this is the first time Durban has seen violence and fear on this scale, said Imtiaz Sooliman, chairman and ...

A leftist leader in South Africa has called for the anger fueling a recent wave of xenophobic violence against African foreigners to be redirected toward the country's wealthy white population.