When the apartheid government was toppled in South Africa, ending white minority rule, people around the world shared in the ...

Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll ...

Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi has damaged farmland and infrastructure ...

S outh Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki has vowed to remove "rotten apples" and "thieves" from the governing African ...

Joan Donoghue speaks to BBC Hardtalk about the case brought by South Africa to the ICJ over alleged violations of the ...

South Africa's state power utility Eskom said on Friday that it would probably be able to limit rolling power cuts over the ...

The United States is no longer viewed as the most influential global power in Africa, having been surpassed by China in a new ...

South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that saw the end of white minority rule ...

South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that saw the end of white minority rule ...

BHP, whose £31bn bid for Anglo has been rejected, faces fraught politics and complicated history in the country ...

In April 1994, the country held its first all-race, democratic elections. See how the Guardian reported events ...