This week, we're watching as Egypt continues to prepare for its upcoming presidential elections, as candidates take to the podiums in the country's fi...
washingtonpost.com | Danielle Cadet | Posted 03.27.2012
Although it's been almost two decades since apartheid ended, South Africans still feel the pangs of racial tension, and a poster depicting an interrac...
AP | DONNA BRYSON, | Posted 03.22.2012
BELA BELA, South Africa — The shantytown called Vingerkraal seems trapped in South Africa's apartheid past. Tin shacks resemble those hurriedly ...
AP | GERALD IMRAY | Posted 01.19.2012
JOHANNESBURG — Basil D'Oliveira, the South African-born England cricketer who became a pivotal figure in the sport's battle against apartheid, d...
AP | Posted 09.17.2011
JOHANNESBURG -- A family friend says one of South Africa's apartheid-era defense ministers has died. Gert Opperman says Magnus Malan died Monday morn...
nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011
JOHANNESBURG -- When he was only in his 20s Ernest Cole, a black photographer who stood barely five feet tall, created one of the most harrowing picto...
Eric J. Henderson | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's start with a seemingly cut-and-dried example, Pablo Picasso and his painting, "Guernica," which was commissioned by the Spanish government but exiled from Spain by Picasso himself.
Raj Patel | Posted 05.25.2011
Ten million South Africans without proper housing will be welcoming foreign visitors, and the glare of the media might provide cover for them to tell their story of 20 years off-side in South Africa.
Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011
As we celebrate the Cup's arrival in the cradle of civilization, there are realities that would be insane to ignore. To paraphrase an old African saying, "When the elephants party, the grass will suffer."
Gabriella Sacramone-Lutz | Posted 05.25.2011
Racial tensions in South Africa aren't the fuel waiting to be ignited by a symbolic murder. Frustration over lack of structural transformation, however, is providing ample amounts of rage.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
Today we visited the site of the FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert. The stadium is located in Soweto, the township created for blacks under the Apartheid government.
Marina Cantacuzino | Posted 05.25.2011
As a result of a complex discussion of the Brighton bombing, I asked Archbishop Desmond Tutu to deliver The Forgiveness Project's inaugural annual lecture on the subject "Is Violence Ever Justified?"
John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011
Long before the struggle in South Africa became fashionable in the U.S., some American leaders rallied to their side, sending forth a ripple of hope on behalf of the entire free world.
Posted 05.25.2011
On the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison, we are taking a look back along with The New York Review at the books published, the ...
Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011
After years of supporting her racist father, Liz Cheney is finally calling out racism where she sees it -- in the words of Harry Reid.
Africa.com | Posted 05.20.2012