Under apartheid, black South Africans were forcibly removed to remote Bantustans and systematically barred from white urban areas through segregation laws and pass systems. After apartheid formally ...

Beneath the town of Springs, near Johannesburg, where Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923, runs the richest vein of gold in the world. Since 1886, prospectors had flocked to the Witwatersrand, and ...

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.

Since around 2000 the South African Police Service has been used to manage internal political dynamics in the ANC.

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late playwright Athol Fugard. Kunene and the King is Kani's latest project.

Until apartheid began to crumble in 1990, Goldblatt, who took pictures in South Africa for more than 70 years, photographed almost exclusively in black-and-white. He turned to color only after the ...

From rural reservations to shebeens or speakeasies (bars) - wherever black people gathered, they were talking about Ashe's ...

After apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to help uncover human rights violations perpetrated under white minority rule.

David Goldblatt began photographing in 1948, the year apartheid was imposed in his native South Africa. He was just out of high school. A liberal Jew who hated the system of racial separation ...

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.