(Politifact) – The primary debate over race in this country seems to be whether the country needs to have a debate at all. Polls show...
(BBC) – It does not seem that it was a year ago that South Africans danced and sang in the streets all night to remember...
(New York Times) – It was a death long foretold that drew mourners from his own nation and across the globe. But on Friday, one year...
(Daily Mail) – Mpumelelo Masinga takes a deep drag from his cigarette, his hand trembling with apprehension. Masinga is preparing to spend three hours at Black...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) — The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa, or Numsa, a major partner of...
(Quartz) – Sometimes, the best innovation isn’t an app. South Africans Thato Kgatlhanye and Rea Ngwane are co-founders of the business Rethaka. Their brand of Repurposed Schoolbags are made...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African man convicted of the murder of a woman during her Cape Town honeymoon accused the woman’s...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A proposal to turn the South African home of a slain white extremist into a state-funded museum has...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A group of Nobel peace laureates on Thursday suspended plans to hold an annual meeting in South Africa because...
(BBC) – About 50 MPs have stormed out of Nigeria’s lower house of parliament after a motion to discuss an alleged South African arms deal...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Opposition lawmakers heckled South African President Jacob Zuma during a parliamentary session Thursday in which questions were raised about...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hecklers on Tuesday accused South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa of being a murderer for the police killings of...
(DNA India) – The idea of the BRICS Bank was to end the subordination to the Western institutions and economic thought that was being propagated by...
SILVIO IZQUIERDO, Associated Press FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — The leaders of five emerging market powers said at a summit Tuesday that they gave final agreement to...
(Reuters) – China will dedicate itself to “perfecting” the role developing countries play in international affairs to give them better representation and a greater say,...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The former head of a South African covert police unit that tortured and killed dozens of people during...
(New York Times) – OTIMATI, South Africa — While around the world a vast majority of AIDS victims are men, Africa has long been the glaring exception: Nearly 60...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The crisis that has rocked the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) over the last year has frequently been...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s election commission completed a vote count that confirms the ruling African National Congress as the winner but...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling party led its rivals in early election results on Thursday after a campaign in...
(Globe & Mail) – South Africans voted in the first “Born Free” election on Wednesday, although polls suggest the allure of the ruling African National Congress...
CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president urged voters to head to the polls next week in the spirit of “democracy and freedom”...
[Daily Star] JOHANNESBURG: Twenty years after the euphoria of South Africa’s first democratic elections swept liberation hero Nelson Mandela to power, the ruling party faces its toughest...
Special to the NNPA CHICAGO — Politically significant and aesthetically beautiful describes the original paintings and drawings by South African artists and their countrymen and women...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Does forgiveness lead to a better society? Or are some crimes so atrocious that the perpetrators should not be...
