South Africa

Pharmaceutical companies, with the help of the US government, are now coercing countries to adopt more stringent intellectual property protection.

On the 20th anniversary of the first democratic vote in South Africa, it is the resistance and real democratic progress of the time that should be celebrated, says John …

The global media feasts on the spectacle of Oscar Pistorius, ignoring the tragic persistence of gender-based violence, inequality and punitive criminal justice that form the context of his violent …

Egypt's generals should look to South Africa's constitutional round table for a model constitution writing process.

Nelson Mandela was forever playing new roles; Danny Schechter talks to Truthout about them and his new book, “Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela.”

Danny Schechter offers insight into how while South Africa changed in terms of who politically ruled it, the economic power remained concentrated in white and western economic hands.

If there are any illusions, it's among the liberals who expect dramatic change from a de Blasio administration while they tell the left and workers to be quiet.

As the Executive Secretary for the Gore-Mbeki Commission Environment Committee, I sat at the negotiating table while the newly elected government of Nelson Mandela formulated its environmental policies.

Apartheid in South Africa was defeated largely by a global campaign. Similar disapproval for Australia's treatment of its Aboriginal population seldom has found its mark.

“Kill the Messenger” details how mass media helped create and exploit fractures in apartheid, ushering in a new age in South Africa.