South Africa's democracy faces a critical impasse: voters continue supporting the ANC despite its failures, while opposition ...

The assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993 was a decisive moment in South Africa’s transition to democracy. Nelson Mandela ...

For democracies to function well, citizens have to trust their institutions. Every incidence of bad service delivery or ...

Seth Mazibuko strides into the intersection of Moema and Vilakazi Street in Soweto, gesturing to the spot that changed South African history. “This is where the students who were marching peacefully ...

Marikana is in South Africa’s story where Gukurahundi stands in Zimbabwe’s: A defining moment that stripped away the moral ...

That is how retired archbishop Desmond Tutu this week recalled voting in South Africa’s first all-race elections on April 27, 1994, an exultant moment when the nation’s majority blacks and other ...

South African Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Mosotho Moepya’s call to his Indian counterpart ahead of the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa is in a moment of deep soul-searching after an election that brought a jarring split from the African National Congress, the very party that gave it freedom ...

Once a source of public outrage, corruption scandals in South Africa now elicit resignation. This article explores the dangerous fatigue surrounding corruption and its implications for democracy.

Once dreaded as implacably fraught, the transition of power in post-apartheid South Africa was incredibly democratic and ...

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