Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is 50 years since the Soweto rebellion in South Africa, when Black students rose up in their numbers to protest the oppressive ...

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(RNS) — In its initial ruling on South Africa’s petition accusing Israel of planning a genocide in Gaza on Friday (Jan. 26), the International Court of Justice in the Hague ordered Israel to do more ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of ...

In the 1980s, South African urban areas were in open revolt against the apartheid government, which had institutionalized a system of racial segregation and political separation from 1948 to 1994. One ...

A generation of women in South Africa have collectively pushed from their memories apartheid-era sexual violence in a cultural process of "unremembering." New research has found that historical crimes ...

More than 30 years after South Africa achieved democracy it remains one of the world’s most unequal countries. The democratic ...

Tara Moore’s “Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa,” which opens the 45th edition of the Durban Intl. Film Festival on July 18, is the South African-born, U.S.-based actor and filmmaker’s ...

Mobs in South Africa have looted foreign-owned shops, forced migrants out of townships and displaced tens of thousands of ...