A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death.
President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader.
The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader โ Marwan Barghouti โ is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal.
As talks on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release gather pace, Hamas is expected to seek the release of some of the highest-profile prisoners held by Israel.
Six South African activists who were detained by Israel while attempting to reach Gaza as part of an aid flotilla claim that they were subjected to harsher treatment than others.
Israeli forces have intercepted the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israelโs sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza.
Bjรถrn Borg starts his new memoir, โHeartbeats,โ with a story about being rushed to a Dutch hospital in the 1990s after overdosing on alcohol and drugs, and the Swedish tennis great closes it by revealing that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
South Africans is starting a โnational dialogueโ hat is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the country's pressing issues and find solutions.
Chefs and volunteers in Johannesburg have made 67,000 liters of soup to honor Nelson Mandela Day.
Authorities have arrested over 70 people during protests in the U.K. over the British government's decision to classify the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization.
The sentiment in South Africa ahead of its leaderโs meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House was one of trepidation.
Ernie Els and Retief Goosen spent the day before the Senior PGA Championship as guests of the South African president in a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.
Topping the agenda at President Donald Trump's meeting with South Africa's president at the White House this week is the extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy welcoming white Afrikaner farmers who the Trump administration claims are persecuted.
U.S. President Donald Trumpโs claim this week that there is an unreported โgenocideโ happening against white farmers in South Africa was his harshest accusation yet against a country he has moved to punish over a range of issues.
A former White House executive chef says U.S. presidents and their families are โjust regular peopleโ when they're at home in the private living areas of the Executive Mansion.
Kenyan literary giant Ngลฉgฤฉ wa Thiong'o is 87 and has struggled with his health in recent years, but he still hopes to complete a new book.
South Africaโs new special envoy to the United States is already under scrutiny for calling U.S. President Donald Trump a racist, homophobic and narcissistic โright-wingerโ in a speech in 2020.
Will Smith could have let his infamous Oscar slap be his cinematic fade out with a career bruised, a marriage dissected and a reputation in a free fall.
The Trump administrationโs decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled out for sanctions and accused of being anti-white and anti-American.
Athol Fugard, South Africaโs foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as โThe Blood Knotโ and โ'Master Haroldโ.
Sam Nujoma, Namibiaโs founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the countryโs Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries.
David Boren, the former Oklahoma governor and longtime U.S. Senate intelligence chief who went on to lead the University of Oklahoma after his retirement from politics, has died.
Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its president for 15 years, has died.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend President-elect Donald Trumpโs swearing-in ceremony, but he is sending Vice President Han Zheng as his special representative.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time and be named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
The grandson of South Africaโs first Black president, Nelson Mandela, says the U.K. government denied him an entry visa because of his support for Hamas.
Whitney Houstonโs epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandelaโs landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall.
Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political career opposing apartheid, has died.
South African opposition parties are meeting and will continue crunch talks into next week to consider the ruling African National Congressโ offer to become part of a government of national unity.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is meeting with senior officials of the African National Congress to decide how to go about forming a government after the party lost its 30-year grip on power and left a post-election deadlock.
South Africa is in a moment of deep soul-searching after an election that brought a jarring split from the African National Congress party.
South Africaโs election has decided little, other than the African National Congress that liberated the country from apartheid in 1994 has lost its 30-year majority.
The African National Congress party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.
South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority.
Partial results in South Africaโs national election have put the long-ruling African National Congress at less than 50% of the vote.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is the wild card in Wednesdayโs election for Africaโs most advanced country.
South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country takes its most significant political step since it brought down apartheid and achieved democracy 30 years ago.
South Africaโs four main political parties have begun a final weekend of campaigning before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the countryโs most important change in 30 years.
The focus for South Africaโs national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time.
The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as people queue some mornings to fill buckets with water from a tank provided by an aid agency.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in next weekโs national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to politics.
South Africaโs election will determine how weary the country has become of the ruling African National Congress party, which has been in power since the end of apartheid 30 years ago.
After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National Congress will face its toughest election this month as most opinion polls predict it will lose its parliamentary majority for the first time.
South Africa has marked 30 years since the end of apartheid with a ceremony in the capital.
South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that saw the end of white minority rule and racial segregation.
South Africa faces an unusual national election this year, its seventh vote since transitioning from white minority rule to a democracy 30 years ago.
South Africaโs ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by the countryโs former leader to court.
Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in May.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the highly anticipated national election will be held on May 29.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confronted some of his countryโs deep problems in his annual State of the Nation speech in Parliament on Thursday.
Hamasโ demand that Israel release Marwan Barghouti brings new attention to a man many Palestinians see as their Nelson Mandela.
The planned auction of dozens of items that belonged to Nelson Mandela has been suspended pending a court application to completely halt it.
Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem have been captivated by the proceedings in a faraway courtroom where the first hearing in an unprecedented case against Israel was held.
South Africa's long-held support for the Palestinian people can be traced back to the time of Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat.
Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africaโs brutal apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandelaโs first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has denounced the governing African National Congress party and announced that he will vote for a newly-formed political formation in the countryโs general election next year.
A man charged with terrorism and other offenses over a 2022 fire that badly damaged South Africaโs historic Parliament complex in Cape Town has been declared unfit to stand trial.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says the world needs to recognize and confront the Taliban's โgender apartheidโ against women and girls in Afghanistan.
Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot, one of 18 artists receiving the 2023 Soros Arts Fellowships from the Open Society Foundations on Tuesday, says that art provides hope and resilience, even in the midst of war.
Former President Donald Trump is comparing himself to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela.
The president of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, knew well the threat of military coups in his part of the world.
South Africaโs ruling African National Congress party on Sunday marks its 111th anniversary with celebratory events in Mangaung, Free State province, where the organization was founded in 1912.
The president of South Africa is fighting for his political future in a dramatic reversal of fortunes for an anti-apartheid icon once admired for tackling the problems of Africaโs most developed economy.
South Africaโs president might lose his job as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm.
A group of elder statesmen founded by Nelson Mandela says the United Nations needs to be more muscular and united if it wants to remain a central player in tackling the worldโs multiple escalating crises.
When federal judge Sergio Moro resigned to enter politics, many in Brazil believed the anti-corruption crusader who jailed a popular former president could someday occupy the nationโs most powerful office.
Fans of the late Princess Diana have placed tributes outside the gates of her Kensington Palace home, marking the 25th anniversary of her death in a Paris car accident.
South Africaโs ruling African National Congress party begins its key policy conference on Friday beset by internal divisions and the countryโs economic woes.
Britainโs Prince Harry is challenging people everywhere to adopt Nelson Mandelaโs spirit of hope in an uncertain and divided world to reclaim democracies and leave a better future for children.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the long-serving deputy secretary-general of his ruling African National Congress party Jessie Duarte, who died Sunday after a long battle with cancer.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already facing calls to step down over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars in U.S. currency that was hidden inside furniture at his game farm.
El Salvador has one of the worldโs strictest abortion laws, banning the procedure in all circumstances including cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation and risk to a pregnant woman's life.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed his government will effectively tackle the countryโs pressing problems of corruption, nationwide power cuts, high unemployment and the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ruling party, the African National Congress, must work to regain popular support after being embroiled in corruption scandals and divided by bitter factional rivalries.
South Africaโs ruling party, the African National Congress, is to celebrate its 110th anniversary this weekend amid deep divisions, graft allegations and broad challenges that saw it perform dismally in local government elections last year.
