south africa

Opinion: Despite character assassination and imprisonment, Winnie Mandela died at the age of 81 without experiencing forgiveness for her alleged crimes

How a radical leader with a checkered past is winning voters away from the party of Nelson Mandela and inspiring a new kind of politics

Mandela was what his nation needed, and had no right to expect. He was released from prison 25 years ago on Feb. 11, 1990

Apartheid death squad leader Eugene de Kock is granted parole

Equating its apartheid past with Israel, South Africa has emerged as one of Palestine’s most outspoken supporters

From war and politics to sports and culture, the global calendar is already crowded

I didn’t realize until it was too late how few perfectly incorruptible human beings there are

In his 1990 report, Allan Fotheringham witnesses history as a jailed martyr tastes freedom

The ruling African National Congress is under pressure to redistribute resources to the black majority

His remarkable journey was one of the great sagas of our time

The man who rejected the inevitability of violence

And it doesn’t really work. Local journalist Barry Bateman tweets the encounter.