Between 2005 and 2022, more than 105,000 children are estimated to have been recruited and used in armed conflict around the world. Today ...

As we share him with the world, we as South Africans remain truly proud to call him our own. Inside our country, even those who were, and who are still, fundamentally opposed to the ANC, and who ...

The Soweto Uprising that followed ... Following earlier calls for South Africa to be made ungovernable on the 25th April 1985 the ANC issued a statement calling for general insurrection. This called ...

A violent conflict over minerals and ethnicity in Congo is up against progress based on a goal to meet the needs of Africa’s ...

Samuel Shafiishuna Nujoma was a freedom fighter who stood up to South Africa in the struggle to liberate Namibia ... before being forced into exile after rallying resistance protests in Old Location a ...

Forty young people from disadvantaged communities graduated after completing training at the Tolomane Mnyayiza Youth Development Centre in Boboyi last week. They trained in plumbing, professional ...

The challenge facing South Africa—and democracies worldwide—is not just about countering populism. It is about addressing the ...

As Sophiatown marks 70 years since the forced removals, this year’s commemoration includes a six-month Don Mattera exhibition ...

Sudan, a nation in northeastern Africa, has been unstable since a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in 2019. A short-lived transition to democracy ...

Greg Grandin is Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of many books including The End of the Myth, The Empire of Necessity, Fordlandia; and his forthcoming, América, América: A New History of the ...

Eskom has scheduled planned maintenance resulting in a nine-hour power outage in Soweto, Gauteng ... TheSouthAfrican.com is all about South Africa and the stories that affect South Africans ...

How do global perceptions of Africa affect the continent? We examine how negative global perceptions of the African continent affect its economies and the lives of its people.