Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg, is a densely populated melting pot with some of South Africa's worst social ills: poverty, unemployment, HIV/AIDS and crime.
Hundreds of investors have been fleeced of up to 10 billion rand ($1.2 billion) in what could be South Africa's biggest corporate fraud, a private investigator and lawyer said on Thursday.
It's late Sunday morning inside a cavernous Salvation Army Church in Soweto, South Africa. Services, complete with African and traditional music, have just finished and a catchy drum beat with a distinctly American hip-hop sound is coming from the stage.
There are 40 parties vying in South Africa's elections, with 26 participating nationally and 14 provincially. Though South Africa's opposition parties remain generally weak, the ruling African National Congress worries that, collectively, they may eat away at its majority.
He's been drawing conclusions about South African politics for over 15 years: cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, talks about the power of the pen.
South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said.
One million free text messages will be sent every day for 12 months from Monday in South Africa in a bid to raise HIV awareness and encourage testing for the disease.
Doctors worry about the woman sitting on a bed inside the large tent, an IV in her arm. Chipo Matewe, 23, is eight months pregnant and stricken with cholera.
South Africa will be ready for the World Cup in 2010 and, as much as is necessary, will be ready for the Confederations Cup this June. How South Africa will cope is, of course, another matter entirely.
Reversing years of inaccurate government policies, South African Health Minister Barbara Hogan is spreading the truth about AIDS
Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg, is a densely populated melting pot with some of South Africa's worst social ills: poverty, unemployment, HIV/AIDS and crime.
Hundreds of investors have been fleeced of up to 10 billion rand ($1.2 billion) in what could be South Africa's biggest corporate fraud, a private investigator and lawyer said on Thursday.
It's late Sunday morning inside a cavernous Salvation Army Church in Soweto, South Africa. Services, complete with African and traditional music, have just finished and a catchy drum beat with a distinctly American hip-hop sound is coming from the stage.
There are 40 parties vying in South Africa's elections, with 26 participating nationally and 14 provincially. Though South Africa's opposition parties remain generally weak, the ruling African National Congress worries that, collectively, they may eat away at its majority.
He's been drawing conclusions about South African politics for over 15 years: cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, talks about the power of the pen.
South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said.
One million free text messages will be sent every day for 12 months from Monday in South Africa in a bid to raise HIV awareness and encourage testing for the disease.
Doctors worry about the woman sitting on a bed inside the large tent, an IV in her arm. Chipo Matewe, 23, is eight months pregnant and stricken with cholera.
South Africa will be ready for the World Cup in 2010 and, as much as is necessary, will be ready for the Confederations Cup this June. How South Africa will cope is, of course, another matter entirely.
Reversing years of inaccurate government policies, South African Health Minister Barbara Hogan is spreading the truth about AIDS
The South African government will press ahead with plans to sell just over 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on the trade
Shaun Francis' daughter has the wrong name on her airline ticket. It's her married name, and her passport still has her maiden name. The airline is happy to fix the ticket -- for a $400 fee. But is that right?
AIDS activists on Friday celebrated the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths by promoting nutritional supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV
South Africa's president has agreed to resign after the country's ruling party called on him to step down
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
South Africa's health minister said Thursday that HIV infection rates among pregnant women declined for the second straight year and claimed it was proof of the success of government policies
Analysis: Economic inequality, not racism, drove the wave of anti-immigrant violence that shook the post-apartheid order. And that's a global problem
Just out of sight of the tour buses that flock to the Cape of Good Hope, more than 2,000 foreigners are crammed into a makeshift refugee camp on the shores of the Atlantic
A South African university said Tuesday it will close the dormitory where white students tricked black workers into tasting stew laced with urine, an incident that sparked protests when revealed earlier this year.
A wave of violence against immigrants that left 56 people dead and forced 30,000 from their homes has subsided, South Africa's safety and security minister said Monday
The atmosphere was tense in Cape Town on Friday after xenophobic violence that has left more than 40 dead in Johannesburg spread to South Africa's largest city.
They fled poverty and violence. But now even the plight of their home country seems preferable to the anti-immigrant mobs
Bishop Paul Verryn spent the 1980s defending apartheid's victims. Now, he protects the immigrants on whom some of those former victims have turned
South African police and military units raided three hostels Thursday in a clampdown on xenophobic attacks that have left more than 40 dead, authorities said.
The army is deployed to suppress anti-immigrant violence, but damage to the country's image -- and psyche -- may linger
A pogrom against migrants reveals the social strain of a post-apartheid "miracle" that did not help the poor
South Africa's police chief said Monday that violence directed at foreign nationals had killed 22 people over the past week.
Police fired rubber bullets and made arrests Monday to try to quell outbursts of anti-foreigner violence in and around Johannesburg
The Supreme Court - apparently handcuffed by possible conflicts of interest - has allowed a multibillion-dollar federal lawsuit from South African blacks and others to proceed. The suit claims U.S. and foreign companies should be held liable for helping the former white-led apartheid government.
A Chinese ship that was blocked from unloading its cargo in South Africa may return to China because of difficulties at African ports, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.
Singer Eli Amor is a Zimbabwean who has found work in South Africa. Like 13 million of his countrymen, Eli hopes the political and economic situation in his homeland will improve. He offered up a song about a greedy man who refuses to give up power to his fellow Zimbabweans in their shared time of need.
A video of white students humiliating black workers shows that racism remains entrenched in South Africa, 14 years after the end of apartheid, its government said Thursday.
White students at a South African university tricked black residence hall workers into eating stew containing urine, prompting a march Wednesday in which five people were arrested, university officials said.
South African college campuses are in turmoil after anti-integration white students are shown humiliating black service staff
A series of lawsuits against companies that did business with the former apartheid regime of South Africa should be dismissed, the Bush administration told the Supreme Court Tuesday.
South African police raided a Johannesburg church early Thursday and took away large numbers of Zimbabwean refugees who had taken shelter there, according to witnesses and video footage.
Jaccqueline Mathe, unemployed and 22, has just signed up for a bank account in Nellmapius, a black township near Pretoria. All she needed was a government ID and a mobile phone. Mathe hopes to save a quarter of the monthly $28.54 government grant she receives for her toddler, Khothasto, who is riding in a sling on her back.
Colleen Hiltbrunner spent two years researching her dream trip to South Africa. But she wasn't looking for the perfect safari lodge. She was hunting for the right cosmetic surgeon.
Is the country in the middle of a child sexual abuse epidemic? The troubles at the talk-show host's celebrated school raises broader questions
Police in South Africa have arrested a former employee at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy on charges of physical and sexual abuse, a police spokesman tells CNN.
South African police are investigating abuse allegations at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, the talk-show host's $40 million school for disadvantaged girls near Johannesburg.
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
The justice system becomes a battleground for a power struggle within the ruling party
The last of 3,200 gold miners trapped by a power failure reached the surface late Thursday after nearly two days underground, witnesses reported.
Hundreds of workers from a South African gold mine returned to the surface Thursday morning after power to the mine was restored, following an accident that kept them underground for more than a day, the company operating the mine told CNN.
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
The Palms shopping center in Lagos is the largest mall in sub-Saharan Africa. It's managed by a South African company, Broll, and most of its stores - Game, Shoprite, NuMetro, Nandos - are South African brands. The largest mobile-phone company in Nigeria? It, too, is South African: MTN, which has captured nearly 50% of the market.
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has operations in countries across the world, each committed to engineering for international development.
South Africa's health department said on Tuesday it has recalled 20 million potentially defective condoms approved by an official accused of taking bribes from a manufacturer.
South Africa's health department said Tuesday it has recalled 20 million potentially defective condoms approved by an official accused of taking bribes from a manufacturer.
Tens of thousands of public sector workers marched Wednesday to government offices across the country, escalating a 12-day-old strike
Feud for thought
The janitors at a rural secondary school in the eastern South African town of Jeppe's Reef are letting their curiosity get the best of them.
Charles Nqakula, South Africa's minister for safety and security, has a message for people complaining about his country's rampant crime rate: You can pack your bags and go.
Pushed onto planes, hassled in airports, and constantly called by head office, business travelers could be forgiven for feeling hunted.
"It's going to be a good day."
South Africa's Constitutional Court has ruled the country's marriage laws unfairly discriminate against same-sex unions.
WHEN MARTHA STEWART GETS HER own edition of The Apprentice this fall on NBC, she will not be the first boss with a prison record to take command of the reality TV program. Tokyo Sexwale, host of th...
The three countries that are farthest behind the goal of getting AIDS drugs to those who need them are South Africa, India, and Nigeria, an official of the World Health Organization has said.
Keeping track of the thousands of animals, plant species and birds that inhabit South Africa's Kruger National Park is no simple task, but thanks to a GPS device, the job has become a lot easier.
In South African townships rife with violence and poverty, thousands of children find comfort and knowledge daily after school by dancing, playing, painting and eating. They study math, reading, music, theater and more, while their older countrymen learn first aid, safe-sex practices, vocational and other life skills.
Koeberg Power Station, 27 kilometers north of Cape Town on South Africa's Atlantic coast, is the only nuclear plant on the African continent.
I take planes like most people take buses.
South African white extremist leader Eugene TerreBlanche, jailed for attempting to murder a black security guard in 1996, has been released from prison on parole.
A brewery brouhaha has shifted from the ad room to the courtroom.
In the multinational effort that may have averted a coup attempt in Equatorial Africa, South Africa alerted Zimbabwe that a planeload of 64 "suspected mercenaries" was to land in Harare, sources close to the investigation said Thursday.
Eight British tourists were killed in South Africa when their bus swerved to avoid a pedestrian on the road and crashed.
It was the travel writer's equivalent of a Willy Wonka golden ticket: an invitation to the first Bush Skills Academy at the Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. Hosted by Conservation Corpo...
Politically incorrect is an understatement. Those U.S. companies that remained in South Africa despite economic sanctions in the 1980s and the early nineties -- including Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson...
BUZZ COOPER, 52, AND ALEECE TYLER-Cooper, 38, believed in South Africa's future even before the fall of apartheid. The family, including daughters Chanel, 19, Eboni, 15, and son Andre, 9, moved fro...
NEXT YEAR MARKS THE CENtennial of $6.7 billion South African Breweries, the nation's dominant beermaker and biggest consumer company with divisions in soft drinks (including a Coke franchise), fash...
Nelson Mandela can claim to be a patriot and peacemaker in South Africa, but he's also a pretty good market mover. Since the president of the African National Congress called for an end to economic...
It could all come unstuck in one mad moment, but what has happened so far in South Africa is something of a miracle. In October, black leaders will begin sharing power with the white government, ga...
The first socially responsible stock fund that invests worldwide debuts this month: Calvert World Values Global Equity Fund (4.75% load; 800-368-2748). The fund won't buy tobacco, alcohol or nuclea...
In mid-October racial discrimination became illegal in South Africa's libraries, swimming pools, bathrooms, and other public facilities. At about the same time, in Natal province the government sus...
The dramatic recent events in South Africa give new urgency to an old question: What kind of government might a democratic South Africa have? Now that the African National Congress is legal and Nel...
The obituaries of Alan Paton, South Africa's most eminent liberal and an eloquent critic of apartheid for several decades, had a curious note in them. They sounded a bit embarrassed. The obituary w...
It probably won't result in folk songs or legends, but the platinum rush of '88 is on. The first U.S. platinum mine -- in Stillwater County, Montana -- produced its initial batch last September and...
The exodus of U.S. companies from South Africa is almost certain to accelerate. Leon Sullivan, the Baptist minister and General Motors board member who established the Sullivan Principles for guidi...
We must weigh in again on South Africa, especially with respect to two large questions that keep getting answered wrong in the New York Times and Washington Post. Question No. 1 is whether sanction...
Okay. You are sure there won't be a nuclear war before Easter. You are certain inflation will lay low, and Uncle Sam will not default on his bonds. So why invest even a dime of your money in gold, ...
As the corporate exodus from South Africa grows, each new departure seems more urgent and drastic than the one before. Less than a month after General Motors and IBM said they were selling their su...
The American Eagle had a spectacular maiden flight. Introduced on Oct. 20, an astounding 480,000 of the one-ounce gold pieces were sold in two days -- at premiums of 10% or more over the price of g...
Is it time to buy platinum? The price has shot up, to a recent $445 per troy ounce on the spot market, following a strike by South African miners in January. The strikers were fired and replaced, b...
A sentence in a New York Times editorial the other day got us going again on the weird inability of the Times to look a certain proposition in the eye. Proposition: the African National Congress is...
The state of emergency that a defiant President Pieter W. Botha declared in South Africa inspired near-unanimous criticism abroad -- and redoubled pressure for economic sanctions against Pretoria. ...
U.S. corporations in South Africa keep looking for better ways to deal with the country's unrest. Some 30 companies have packed up and left in the past year. Others are contending with intense pres...
Look in any sizable dictionary and you will find ''unmentionables'' as a synonym for ''underwear.'' That quaint locution is sitting there because there actually was a time when genteel folks could ...
South Africa and its major European and American creditor banks agreed to an interim plan that would end the debt-repayment freeze imposed by Pretoria last September. Over the next year South Afric...
Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. of South Africa, the world's second-largest producer of platinum, summarily fired 23,000 striking black workers at four mines in Bophuthatswana, about 100 miles northw...
South Africa's white minority government faces a potentially powerful new challenge on the labor front. Meeting near Durban, 34 unions representing some 500,000 black workers formed the Congress of...
After a meeting in London with creditors, South African officials say the four-month freeze they imposed on repayment of $13.6 billion in short-term foreign debt in September may be extended indefi...
The government of President P. W. Botha, who has stubbornly drawn a laager, or circle of wagons, around the South African system of apartheid, suddenly looked fragile. After foreign bankers decided...
IF YOU'RE THE HEAD of an American company doing business in South Africa these days, you've got to be feeling harassed. You are convinced your company is an effective force for peaceful change in a...
SPECIAL REPORT Time to Quit 18 South Africa? A U.S. pullout would wound, not kill, the economy, leaving bargains for local companies. by John Nielsen An interview with 21 Harry Oppenheimer Don't Lo...
Harry F. Oppenheimer, 76, former chairman of South Africa's Anglo American Corp. and its sister, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. -- a gold, diamond, and industrial empire founded by his father, Si...
THE ACTIONS and plans of American business have figured nearly as prominently in many stories about South Africa as the fires in Soweto. As business confidence waned following P. W. Botha's August ...
South Africa's political unrest has revived long-standing fears of a disruption in the supply of key minerals. A leading producer of gold and diamonds, South Africa is also a trove of strategic met...
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