Ela Gandhi is the granddaughter of Mohandas Gandhi, also known as 'Mahatma' (great soul) Gandhi, the man who famously led Indians to independence from their British colonizers in 1946. She was born in 1940 in the Phoenix Settlement in the Inanda district of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
JOHANNESBURG -- The century-old African National Congress, which led the victory over apartheid 18 years ago and has governed South Africa since, must...
When I came to South Africa, I thought I was escaping the way our news programs are totally dominated by political coverage even though the election is months away.
Leaders know how to read the winds of change and know when to change course. Importantly, leaders know failure when they see it and acknowledge that "failure cannot be improved".
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa -- Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revelers waved the green and gold colors of the African National Congress as A...
This coming weekend, on January 8th, I foresee that just a few dedicated media practitioners outside of Africa will mark the passing of a hundred years since the hot and dusty day when Nelson Mandela's movement, the African National Congress, was first formed.
JOHANNESBURG -- Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, an...
South Africa's media are among the most vibrant and adventurous in the world. Currently, though, journalists in this still-young democracy, the so-called Rainbow Nation, appear to be living in a state of shock and outrage.
South Africa's governing party has declared that eating sushi off the body of a model in a bikini is "politically incorrect." Here, a timeline of the events that have led up to today's announcement.
Come Jan. 5, 2011, congressmen will be back in school, learning how to read bills. Across town, another freshman has a similar agenda -- but add homework to his list.
In summer 2008, the U.S. military had a major problem. More than 2,400 service members had reported being sexually assaulted the previous year, and th...
Academics, activists and intellectuals should not be influential in defining the boundaries of disputes with enemies by settling personal scores through political issues.
Native Americans have been asking this question for centuries. The latest salvo in this unyielding attack is highlighted in a recent series of Washington Post articles that target Alaska Native Corporations.
A new painting that portrays Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing an autopsy has sparked outrage from the African National Congress (ANC), South Afri...
For decades, leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) sacrificed monumentally to give voice to South Africa's subjugated black majority. Nelson ...
(AP) JOHANNESBURG - A white politician stormed out of a live TV debate about race relations and a black leader of the ruling African National Congress...
The soccer matches will provide a lift for the national mood of a country that wrestles with seemingly intractable problems in a democratic context if no longer with the uncritical acclaim of the immediate post-apartheid era.
JOHANNESBURG -- The drug trafficker and the police commissioner were once nattily attired pals, or so the allegations go. The two men would shop toget...
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.
JOHANNESBURG, April 19 -- Pollsters and analysts predict a clean sweep for the ruling African National Congress when this nation goes to the polls on ...
Dropping corruption charges against African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma does not amount to an acquittal, acting National Director of Pub...
Facing its first real challenge since the end of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) has turned to the man who many wish was still leading ...