Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...

The exhibition’s most distinctive feature is the inclusion of British government files, once classified, that reveal how the colonial authorities perceived him.

The Princess Royal has started her two-day trip to South Africa solo, as her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence drops out ...

The story of Pretoria-born photographer Ernest Cole, who died in exile 35 years ago with one book of photographs and little ...

African leaders’ authoritarian practices, domestic power struggles and governance failures have undermined efforts to create a ‘United States of Africa’.

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Several factors contributed to the demise of apartheid in the land where that term originated, South Africa. Inspired and timely leadership within South Africa was an important ingredient. But ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that.Focused on ...

The past three weeks in South Africa have been lawless, even by South African standards. And yet it started so promisingly, with former President Jacob Zuma finally handing himself over..

The connection with the scheme for the electrification of the South African Railways, the contract for the equipment of 83 motor coaches each complete with four 185 B.H.P. electric motors ...

In February 1995, a small research organisation known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

Natal, South Africa, on a mission with the United Nations, I witnessed one of the most significant milestones of the 20th century: the election of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela ...