A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they ...

Following the decision, the Black nationalist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party released a video of its leader, Julius ...

A new book argues that South Africa should ‘start again’, but the reviewer says it doesn’t make a strong case.

Rosalind Morris digs deep via ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought to tell the story about the ...

The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States ...

Agatha Christie is always entertaining with her great plot twists and delightfully strange characters. Pieter Toerien's ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I put N“P”R on while I made coffee three mornings ago and learned three things: +1. The US imperialist client and occupation and apartheid state of Israel launched a surprise bombardment that ...

FILE - White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) 31,296 people ...

The US is stalling the distribution of $2.6 billion (~R47 billion) in climate finance to South Africa, stoking concerns the money might be blocked outright, people familiar with the situation said.

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. Coventry, 41, will ...

A couple hundred kids ages 10 to 13 is a cauldron of adolescent energy, the sort of latent power typically associated with tropical storms, but it only takes six ounces or so to hold them spellbound.