Apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans, was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. This video provides a simplified ...

On 29 May 2026, a chartered flight carrying Ghanaian nationals landed in Accra . Many had chosen to leave South Africa because they no longer felt safe amid growing xenophobic tensions and ...

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order to freeze all U.S. aid to South Africa and to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners who want to leave the country. According to the ...

When the G20 meeting kicks off in South Africa this weekend, one member country will be conspicuously absent: the United States. President Trump has decided that the U.S. will completely boycott the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded the number of refugee places available for white South Africans, saying there have ...

Discover how Larramie Damstra's quest to uncover his grandmother's mixed-race heritage reveals the painful realities of family secrets during apartheid in South Africa.

Johannesburg — South African activist and anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko died almost five decades ago at the age of 30 in police custody. Family members and others who saw his body that day said he ...

Thandiswa Mazwai has sung of South Africa’s highs and lows since the country became a multiracial democracy 30 years ago. “My calling is to sing the people’s joy, to sing the people’s sadness.” By ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An inquiry into allegations that South Africa's Black-led governments interfered with investigations into apartheid-era crimes was postponed on its first day Monday over objections ...

As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid government decades ago, some on the American right felt they took it too far. One of those people who stepped up and ...