After 49 years, South Africa seeks justice for anti-apartheid hero Steve Biko

A supporter of Steve Biko attends the inquest into his 1977 death at the Gqeberha High Court in South Africa, on Monday. The ...
Bloomberg

Apartheid’s Long Shadow Hangs Over South Africa’s Election

It’s 5 a.m., just after the crack of dawn, and a heavily pregnant Mara Khoza is already on her feet, mustering the strength for a grueling commute to work. As she steps out the door and begins her ...

70 years after South Africa's women challenged apartheid, many still striving for freedom

South Africa is commemorating 70 years since the Women's March of 1956, when 20,000 women protested apartheid laws in Pretoria. Despite progress, gender violence and other factors impede the path to ...
Yahoo

South Africa opens a new inquiry into apartheid-era killings known as Cradock Four

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — When Nombuyiselo Mhlauli was given her husband's body back for burial, he had more than 25 stab wounds in his chest and seven in his back, with a gash across his throat. His right ...
CounterPunch

Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats

Carter’s defeat in 1980 led to a policy turnaround. Ronald Reagan’s administration viewed South Africa’s liberation movements—the African National Congress (ANC) and the United Democratic Front ...
Yahoo

It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's celebrations are set against growing discontent

People attend Freedom Day celebrations in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday April 27, 2024. The day marks April 27 when the country held pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the ...

‘I am so tired’: Jill Edelstein’s devastating portraits of apartheid and more – in pictures

The South African photographer documented her country’s harrowing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These pictures form part of a new exhibition – alongside intimate images of actors, artists and f ...
Southern Poverty Law CenterOpinion

South African Apartheid and U.S. Racial Discrimination

The legacies of Jim Crow in the U.S and apartheid in South Africa are evident today in entrenched disparities that Black ...
Newsweek

I Lived in Apartheid South Africa—Equating it to Israel Is an Affront

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the eyes of the world, I have been considered a pariah for most of ...
Los Angeles Times

Athol Fugard, South African theater artist whose works confronted apartheid, dies at 92

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold’ … and the Boys” to ...
Newsday

It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's celebrations are set against growing discontent

PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of ...