SA's town name changes have been a debated topic for many years now. In case you forgot, here are 7 towns that were famously ...

South Africa is home to around 532 townships, where over 40% of its urban population resides. In 2019, these townships had about 21.7 million residents, with Gauteng province having the largest ...

Orania is a town in the northern cape of South Africa. Formally established in 1991, the town was created during the last years of apartheid, where it was meant to be a safe haven for Afrikaners.

Sefala and her team have spent the last three years building a data set that maps out townships in order to study how neighborhoods are changing in terms of population and size. The hope is that ...

Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning "apart-hood," is a system of legalized segregation that was widely practiced in South Africa and enacted by law by the white-ruled Nationalist Party in 1948.

ECONOMY South Africa's GDP per capita increased steadily in the years following the advent of democracy but that trend has reversed since 2011. By 2023, it was below the average for emerging ...

Nelson Mandela’s party ended apartheid. But the ANC also failed to prevent the stark racial inequality that divides South Africa today. It could pay the price in the May 29 elections.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered an inquiry to establish whether previous governments led by his party intentionally blocked investigations and prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes.

I n white-dominated South Africa a stern Dutch Calvinist concept of law-and-order still holds sway. But suddenly many of the country’s segregated black townships are becoming ungovernable.

South Africa and other speakers have argued that the proliferation of Jewish settlements, many of which are full-fledged towns, suggests that the occupation is not temporary, but permanent.