South Africa's journey from apartheid to democracy remains marred by a deeply entrenched economic power structure that favours a select few. These elites, often referred to as the "apartheid oligarchs ...

South Africa has found itself at the unlikely center of an American political firestorm, Elon Musk, who grew up there during apartheid, weighing in repeatedly. Last week, America welcomed the first ...

The mutually beneficial relationship between Israel and apartheid South Africa was not just about the arms trade. It was an ...

Carter’s defeat in 1980 led to a policy turnaround. Ronald Reagan’s administration viewed South Africa’s liberation movements—the African National Congress (ANC) and the United Democratic Front ...

Xolisa Guzula was commissioned to write the book, Together Apart: The story of living in apartheid, which has been funded by the National Lotteries Commission to be translated into isiXhosa, isiZulu, ...

Experts say there is little difference between apartheid and Jim Crow. LONDON -- Bongani Sibeko was just a toddler when he and his family were forced to flee their home in apartheid South Africa, as ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show with Part 2 of my recent interview with the reporter Chris McGreal, who was the Johannesburg correspondent ...

President Trump’s targeting of South Africa is clearly tied to his influential adviser Elon Musk and a coterie of wealthy U.S. oligarchs, “all of whom in some way or other grew up in South Africa as ...

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Apartheid death-squad leader Eugene de Kock, dubbed 'Prime Evil' for his role in the torture and murder of scores of black South African activists in the 1980s and early 1990s, ...

The successful push to change US policy toward South Africa provides a useful blueprint for our current moment. Democratic congressional candidate Ron Dellums, and his wife, Roscoe, left, clasp hands ...

Actor, playwright and activist John Kani is a legend in South Africa. He was arrested, beaten and almost left for dead because of his work developing and starring in plays that were often searing ...

The 40-year arc of US relations with South Africa goes something like this: In 1984, President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that Desmond Tutu was “naive” for pressuring him — unsuccessfully — to ...