Articles
In South Africa, Talk of Mandela’s Mortality
(JOHANNESBURG) — The desk is spotless and books neatly line the shelves in Nelson Mandela's office at a Johannesburg-based foundation that carries his name, but...
Google Doodle Honors Miriam “Mama Africa” Makeba
Nicknamed "Mama Africa," she was the first African singer to win a Grammy.
Arthur Chaskalson
Even during the darkest days of apartheid, Arthur Chaskalson had a revolutionary view of the law: that it was about justice. As a young attorney in Johannesburg...
South Africa Mine Massacre: Miners Charged with Murdering Themselves
The decision late Thursday by South Africa‘s state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their...
As South Africa Reels from Mine Shootings, Social Inequality Threatens to Undo the Post-Apartheid ‘Miracle’
A series of police massacres from the 1960s to the 1980s helped seal the fate of white minority rule in South Africa, so it’s hardly surprising that last week’s...
Photo Essays
Violence Erupts in South Africa
A rolling pogrom against migrants reveals the social strain of a post-apartheid 'miracle' that failed to transform the lives of the poor
