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 ...

The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy hosted a film screening and conversation about the legacy of apartheid in South Africa on Wednesday. The Feb. 25 event displayed Tara Erica ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An inquiry into allegations that South Africa's Black-led governments interfered with investigations into apartheid-era crimes was postponed on its first day Monday over objections ...

Eugene de Kock testified that one of the police officers implicated in the killings had asked him to help assist with a cover ...

Johannesburg — South African activist and anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko died almost five decades ago at the age of 30 in police custody. Family members and others who saw his body that day said he ...

A new book, Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid, has just been published in South Africa. Intended for young people but speaking to readers of all ages, the book explores what it was like ...

Actor, playwright and activist John Kani is a legend in South Africa. He was arrested, beaten and almost left for dead because of his work developing and starring in plays that were often searing ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—When it first started in the 1970s, South Africa's Market Theatre staged plays considered to be so subversive that it became a regular target of the apartheid government's ...

For black people living in South Africa during apartheid, simply moving around the country was a fraught activity, let alone crossing its borders. This was especially the case for black women, who ...

He made several trips to South Africa, and to other African nations, as a peace broker and a representative of Black America. By John Eligon Reporting from Johannesburg Jesse Jackson lobbied Pope John ...