For a thorough understanding of South Africa's appalling apartheid era, a visit to Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum is a must. The museum features a series of graphic yet informative exhibits ...

South Africa had been living under white colonisation since the Dutch established a base in 1652, but the legal system of apartheid began in 1948. South Africans were split into four groups ...

The Global Traffic Index recently ranked Cape Town number one in South Africa – and ninth in the world – for the worst ...

Trade and financial sanctions were applied to South Africa from 1979 following decades-long pressure from anti-apartheid activists and governments. By 1994 Nelson Mandela had been elected president of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Interview - Thandiswa Mazwai has lived the modern history of African music. In the early '90s, when she was still a teenager, she pioneered the emerging kwaito sound in South Africa, first with a trio ...

The ANC, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid three decades ago, lost its majority in May's general election, forcing it into a deal with other political parties. How Putin ...

The greatest gift we can give to our children, and the future South Africa, is our own healing. South Africa may have moved beyond apartheid, but not beyond racial polarisation. Virtually every ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

The legacies of colonialism and apartheid means that Black communities – who make up 81.4% of South Africa’s population – still do not have the same water access as white communities.

Without Phoenix, there would have been no Mahatma Gandhi. In her book, Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie brings that settlement and its ...