Southern Africa

The suspect in a fire that gutted parts of South Africa's 138-year-old parliament building this month was charged with terrorism...

A South African corruption inquiry pointed to systemic graft during former President Jacob Zuma's tenure in the first part of...

A member of the youth league of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF has launched a court bid to challenge the constitutionality...

Namibia will suspend the rollout of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, its health ministry said on Saturday, days after the...

By Justine Wintjes* In the archaeology storerooms of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, lie two boxes filled with seashells. The shells...

South Africa will extradite former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang to his home country, its justice department said on Monday,...

By The Conversation Africa Skin We Are In is a landmark South African book for children (and grown-ups) on the subject of...

By David B. Moore* Danish director Camilla Nielsson’s documentary President (2021) is an up-close, intimate tale. It follows the election travails of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party the...

By Benjamin Roberts*, Gregory Houston*, Jare Struwig*, & Steven Gordon* The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates...

By Gerhard Maré* Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, who has passed away at the age of 72, was the longest reigning of all Zulu...