Saying that U2's rock had lost touch with its African roots, the Commission called for urgent measures to halt U2's slide towards impending crisis.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Prior to his work for the international court, Goldstone cut his judicial teeth on the bench of South Africa's Supreme Court under the apartheid regime.
Saul Garlick | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
A South Africa that is inspired by Mandela will be no different from a South Africa with a living Mandela.
AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
JOHANNESBURG — Dancers clad in animal skins opened a royal ceremony Tuesday, a nod to tradition for the forward-thinking kings, queens and chief...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment
In our country, hate sells. Even the idealists among us must be wondering if the idea of brotherhood can compete against it. Well, it can. It did in South Africa.
Michael Young | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
The South African peace negotiations template can serve as a model for facilitating peace efforts around the world today, from the Middle East, to Afghanistan, to Iran, to the Basque area of Spain.
David Colbert | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books
The news that Nelson Mandela's diaries are becoming "the book of the fair" at the Frankfurt Book Fair reminded me of the time I chased the first Mandela autobiography at Frankfurt, exactly twenty years ago.
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books
The Frankfurt Book Fair has been going on this week, and it's brought news, controversy, and excitement galore with it. The choice of China for guest ...
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.
Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.
Chris Campbell | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
I find it maddening how quickly the wolves came out. Similar to any policy move that will actually benefit Americans and our standing in the world, the right-wing goes ballistic.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.
Newsweek | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
A president's first-hundred-days milestone isn't as breathlessly awaited in other countries as it is in America. And so South African President Jacob ...
AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela has congratulated South African runner Caster Semenya, whose dramatic improvement, deep voice and...
Mary Wald | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
Elegant is the first word that comes to mind. He was warm, with an IQ that kept you mentally running to keep up. He defied death, worked in the face of oppression and gave his all.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Leonard Peltier has been in prison for a staggering 33 years, six more than Nelson Mandela. When he was locked up, Three Mile Island was three years away, and Ronald Reagan had barely begun to run for President.
CNN | Posted 09.01.2009 | World
A South African policeman guarding former South African President Nelson Mandela's home shot and killed himself Saturday, police said. A police serge...
Danny Schechter | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
What a time for Iconomania, none of it critical, none of it questioning, none offering deeper perspective or leading to very revealing coverage.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
We desperately need a visionary leader in the Arab world, monarch or republican, who steps aside and oversees in his lifetime a peaceful democratic transfer of power.
New York Daily News | Sindhu Sundar | Posted 08.17.2009 | New York
Twelve city public school students had a school trip of a lifetime when they flew to Johannesburg recently to meet former South African President Nels...
David Dinkins | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
On this first Mandela Day, we might be reminded of the words of an ANC freedom song.
David Henry Sterry | Posted 07.29.2009 | Entertainment
America didn't win their first international soccer tournament. But sometimes winning isn't the only thing. Sometimes getting to the finals is the next step toward winning the finals.
Laura Kiss | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
We want politics with another flavor. We want to see the politics of humanity, of dignity, of dialogue, of wisdom, of grace.
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
"Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up." This is what America can learn from South Africa.
AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
KWANXAMALALA, South Africa — One-time goat herder Jacob Zuma is poised to lead Africa's strongest economic power after elections Wednesday _ a v...
William Easterly | Posted 11.23.2009 | Comedy