Throughout much of Central Europe, there are two cities: for the Roma and for the non-Roma. These cities rarely intersect.
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.
A beautiful and recognizable face is in the likes of Kandyse McClure. From the age of 19, we've seen that face displaying her on camera talent through her eyes and expression -- through acting and an excellent job of it.
JOHANNESBURG — Nineteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africans are still passionately divided over whether Margaret Thatcher helped or...
WASHINGTON -- Margaret Thatcher's death on Monday at 87 has brought tributes from all over the world. All over the world, that is, except for Sout...
Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town who rose to international fame as he helped lead the fight against apartheid in South Africa...
The student senate at UC Riverside voted on March 6 to divest from companies doing business in Israel.
JOHANNESBURG -- Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie expressed "surprise and shock" that prosecutors are considering charges against her following the exhu...
JOHANNESBURG -- Forensic scientists on Tuesday exhumed two bodies believed to belong to young activists last seen 24 years ago at the home of Winnie M...
On March 4, Google celebrated singer and activist Miriam Makeba's 81st birthday with a Google Doodle. Makeba was born in South Africa in 1932 and ...
On this day, 23 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from the South African prison where he'd been held for nearly 27 years. In August of 1962 M...
I was sitting in a Manhattan movie theater waiting to see the newly Oscar-nominated Searching for Sugar Man, a documentary about the seeking and findi...
JOHANNESBURG — Anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela could spend a few more days in the hospital for care, South Africa's president said Tuesday,...
The Jakaranda Children’s Home, a South African orphanage, says it’s losing funding from large companies because 70 percent of its children are whi...
Both South Africa and the U.S. must honor the stories of apartheid and slavery told by their people. By acknowledging the wrong and committing to make it right, we help ensure that no race can ever again succeed in elevating itself at the expense of others.
As a reporter, I've come across humanitarian heroes in places from Afghanistan and Burundi to Somalia, Indonesia and Haiti. One person who made a strong impression was a gutsy South African woman who reached millions of chronically hungry people during the apartheid era.
The risk of what might happen in terms of fossil fuel liability for climate disasters could start to dissuade investors, especially with students and grumpy green grandparents taking to the streets.
While Americans exercise their right to vote today, South Africans are quietly commemorating a step toward their own democratic existence. On Novem...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of Nelson Mandela, d...
Those at risk of future mass atrocities need India, Brazil and South Africa to become Responsibility to Protect's champions and not sit on the sidelines of history. Indeed, their lives may well depend upon it.
Okwui Enwezor (the director of the just-concluded La Triennale, Paris, whose day Job is director, Haus der Kunst, Munich) has organized a landmark exhibition on the history, memory and legacies of Apartheid in South African.
It's ironic to say the least that a musical genre incorporating anti-Apartheid messages derives its name from the language spoken by the oppressors. Nevertheless, Kwaito, which emerged in Johannesburg in the 1990s, is similar to house music with an incorporation of African sounds and samples.
When schoolchildren are taught religious dogma instead of a credible academic program, their ability to function in the real world and compete for jobs is drastically diminished.
Cry, the Beloved Country is a tremendous book, a carefully structured and recklessly open (heart and soul) depiction of race relations in South Africa in the 1940s.
The reach of oppression can be vast. The poor, outspoken, different, and dissonant are often harmed by political and social persecution; however, oppression can also hinder another foundational element of culture: artistic expression.
