JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The fear that climate change will worsen inequality in South Africa - with only the rich able to afford enough water, food and safely-located housing - is a ...

The NCC raises concerns about the DA's plans for a public auction of municipal properties in Cape Town, highlighting potential impacts on historically significant land.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The outgoing mayor of Cape Town, known for averting a near catastrophic water shortage, said she hopes to leave office on the heels of another ...

He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National ...

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africans celebrated their “Freedom Day” on Saturday, commemorating their country’s pivotal first democratic election on April 27, 1994, that announced the official end ...

Local clay and rubble from buildings razed during Apartheid were fired into bricks and fittings for the Rahmah Library in Cape Town, South Africa, completed by local studio The MAAK. Created with ...

It is likely the end of the legal road for five District Six families who have spent years in the courts to stop their ...

Townships get little by way of public resources compared with rich suburbs. By mapping the problem, researchers like Raesetje Sefala hope to reverse it. Raesetje Sefala grew up sharing a bedroom with ...

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 Barnes Foundation hosts work by two artists: one making work since apartheid, the other growing up in post-apartheid South Africa. Lebohang Kganye looks at her patchwork cloth re-creation of a ...

Yewande Omotoso's new novel follows two South African widows in their 80s: Hortensia is black, Marion is white and both are set in their ways. 'Next Door' Neighbors Gradually Learn To Get Along In ...