Zuma impeachment rebuffed, but calls for removal intensify
Events commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the assasination of Chris Hani were held throughout South Africa over the weekend.
Today in history: Birthday of South African liberation fighter Oliver Tambo
Oliver Reginald Tambo, anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary, was born on this date in 1917.
South Africa: miners’ killing marked with call for unity
President Jacob Zuma called on South Africans to remember the 44 people killed at the Marikana platinum mine.
South African Communists reassess country’s national democratic revolution
The South African Communist Party's Special National Congress took stock of a range of problems besetting South Africa's young democracy.
Today in history: Mozambique achieves independence in 1975
The decade 1964-74 marks the wars of independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and islands of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.
Today in people's history: Nelson Mandela released from prison
Today marks exactly 25 years since the day in 1990 when anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from prison to become a free man in South Africa.
South Africa hits “genocidal” plan of pharmaceutical industry
South Africa is working to create its own generic pharmaceuticals industry. Its success depends on being able to be independent of big pharma companies.
South Africa, then and now
In all the words emitted on the occasion of the passing of Nelson Mandela, one thread questions whether anything significant was accomplished with the end of apartheid.
Everyday South Africans celebrate Mandela’s life
The death of Nelson Mandela on December 5th at the age of 95 and after prolonged bouts of illness hardly came as a surprise to most South Africans.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: 1918 - 2013
The world mouns the passing of elder statemen and freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela.
