New scandals call in to question the state of South Africa's democracy 20 years after Mandela.

The South African paralympian will return to prison after an appeals court found him guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The pope’s visit struck cords in Africa on a number of levels. Some of the thorniest political debates in the United States are also difficult ones in Africa.

The mounting refugee problem in Europe—often seen as a result of the Syrian war—has attracted the attention of the world’s media. But there is another, often forgotten, dimension to the crisis which has been on going for a number of years: the political instability in North Africa, Eritrea specifically.

The discovery will, researchers claim, change our ideas about early human ancestors.

Benedict Daswa was brutally murdered for refusing to participate in witchcraft just nine days before the release of Nelson Mandela on Feb. 2, 1990.

In response to the recent spate of xenophobic attacks the South African Government launched Operation Fiela a word which means to ldquo sweep clean rdquo or ldquo clear out rdquo the rubbish Although the national police force led this operation the military were also brought in to assist Th

While the world rsquo s attention was focused on the outbreak of deadly xenophobic attacks in South Africa another deplorable murder took place Eighty-six-year-old Missionary Sister of the Precious Blood Stefani Tiefenbacher was allegedly gang raped and murdered in her bedroom Police are waiting

Church and civil organizations are working to bring relief to victims.

Eurocentric view of family—father, mother and children (nuclear family)—found problematic