Police in South Africa have allegedly shot dead a three-year-old boy because they mistook a metal pipe he was holding for a gun....
Yahoo! News | Godfrey Marawanyika | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
HARARE (AFP) South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday urged donors to give more aid to Zimbabwe to revive the shattered economy, while telling the...
GlobalPost | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Thousands of municipal workers marched through downtown Johannesburg this week to demand higher wages and better working...
Mail & Guardian | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
Police fired rubber bullets and teargas on Wednesday at township rioters demanding better services and more jobs, in one of the biggest challenges to ...
Liesl Gerntholtz | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
I doubt that even Mr. Zuma would be able to silence the voices of women who will continue to demand equality and a country where they can live lives free from violence.
AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 06.09.2009 | World
PRETORIA, South Africa — Jacob Zuma took power Saturday in the culmination of an extraordinary political comeback, pledging to Nelson Mandela an...
Earth Times | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
US President Barack Obama telephoned Jacob Zuma on Friday to congratulate him on becoming South African president and urged Zuma to take a leadership ...
Star | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
There will be three first ladies at the side of South Africa's new president when he is inaugurated at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Saturday....
Mail & Guardian Online | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Jacob Zuma will inherit a still-simmering crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where analysts said he's unlikely to tread as softly as his predecessor Tha...
Wall Street Journal | MICHAEL ALLEN | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
NKANDLA, South Africa -- Now that 67-year-old Jacob Zuma is about to become president, the question is: Who will be First Lady? And Second Lady? And w...
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
PRETORIA, South Africa — The leader of South Africa's long-dominant ANC was treated like a president-elect Saturday after his party swept parlia...
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
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AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.24.2009 | World
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's governing party set off fireworks and popped fizzy bottles of champagne Thursday as ballots were counted in the co...
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 | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
JOHANNESBURG — Lines of South African voters snaked around dusty fields, up misty hills and around gritty urban neighborhoods Wednesday, all for...
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...
Laura J. Mitchell | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
Too much is at stake for South Africans indeed for the rest of the continent to blithely dismiss "forces of darkness" in this current election.
Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
Jacob Zuma, current president of the African National Congress and the leading candidate in South Africa's presidential election Wednesday, is quite t...
Independent | Daniel Howden | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
While it is customary before an election to wonder who will emerge as first lady, it's unusual to ask the question when only one man can possibly be p...
washingtonpost.com | Karin Brulliard | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
JOHANNESBURG, April 19 -- Pollsters and analysts predict a clean sweep for the ruling African National Congress when this nation goes to the polls on ...
Andrew Belonsky | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
Jacob Zuma's commitment to communism, apparent disdain for free press and alleged meddling in the justice system are enough to raise the hairs on anyone who believes in open, transparent liberal democracy.
Olivia Sterns | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
A teenager being flogged, and the case of Pres. Karzai "legalizing rape" offered more evidence that women's rights are retreating, yet in other parts of the world serious causes for concern batted fewer eyelashes.
Mail & Guardian Online | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Dropping corruption charges against African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma does not amount to an acquittal, acting National Director of Pub...
Sean Jacobs | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
More like South Africa's embattled ruling party, the African National Congress is using Barack Obama to attract voters.
Guardian | David Smith | Posted 11.10.2009 | World