A prominent South African MP fired shots to fend off a violent attack by a gang on him and two of his colleagues in Cape Town ...

When rebels stormed into a village last month in Sudan, they gunned down civilians in their homes or as they tried to flee.

Sambudla, daughter of former president Jacob Zuma, faces serious allegations in court related to her social media activity ...

Ahead of its 28 August target for receiving the next batch of Afrikaner ‘asylum seekers’, the United States is trying to beef up processing capacity in South Africa.

Joy Falatiya says she fell apart after her husband kicked her and five children out of their home in South Sudan in March ...

Violence and looting erupted in various malls across Cape Town on Monday in the wake of the ongoing taxi strike, plunging sections of the city into chaos.

The 2021 July riots were the most widespread, coordinated, and visible instance of looting in South Africa. A closer look shows that many were already chipping away at state and private assets on ...

South Africa may have christened itself the “Rainbow Nation,” but high walls of income and opportunity still divide its communities.

In the days after the looting, volunteers came out to clean up the damage, sweeping up the broken glass, the detritus, and the spent bullets and shotgun ...

The South African rand extended a recent slide early on Friday one day after the central bank said the recent spate of looting would hurt the economy.

The violence wreaked its damage because South Africa’s journey to democracy remains incomplete. It sends a sharp message that the country must look its past far more squarely in the eye.

Palesa Morudu Rosenberg is a South African writer based in Washington, D.C. South Africa is a tinderbox marked by extreme inequality. And last week, the country’s ruling party lit the match ...