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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

That meant the black townships of apartheid South Africa: first Sophiatown in Johannesburg (soon demolished for white housing) and then, in Sam’s footsteps, New Brighton.

Is the nostalgia for apartheid distorting our understanding of South Africa's progress? This article critiques the ...

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.