South Africa

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo witnessed the dawn of the Nelson Mandela government and the United States' back-door complicity with old-guard Afrikaner political officials.

As thousands of mourners line up to pay their last respects to Nelson Mandela, we go to Johannesburg to speak with longtime anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils.

John Pilger recalls an interview with Nelson Mandela in the 1990s, painting a portrait of a leader whose ANC had been in struggle for so long they were willing …

Tens of thousands gathered at the FNP Stadium in Soweto near Johannesburg today for a memorial to honor Nelson Mandela, who died last week at the age of 95.

Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels.

Fifteen months on from the mining massacre in South Africa, executives from British-owned Lonmin have not yet been called to appear before the official commission of inquiry into the …

Leonce Ndikumana: Nigeria revises economic data and will displace S.A. as Africa'u0092s largest economy.

The media and government silence surrounding the murders of community activists from Abahlali baseMjondolo suggests that political violence against the independently organized poor has become acceptable to much of …

When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at …

Rebels at the inception of struggle are vilified, and few in number - but they don't always stay that way.