List of South Africa articles
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sa-crop Watch: South African Presidential Address Turns Violent
Jeers, fistfights and pepper spray in the parliamentary chamber.
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mugabe-crop How Not to Handle Criticism, Brought to You By Robert Mugabe
The Zimbabwean dictator’s very public, very amusing fallout with a former political ally in South Africa.
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01_henricojaco The Last White Africans
With 200,000 members, AfriForum is the leading civic organization advocating for the rights of Afrikaners in South Africa. Do the people responsible for apartheid’s crimes have a claim to their country’s future?
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south-a-crop Has Zuma Met His Match? Damning Report Details South African President’s Corruption
South Africa’s independent watchdog is a saving grace after President Jacob Zuma is skewered by new allegations.
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Members of Burundi's National Assembly raise their arm to vote on October 12, 2016 in Bujumbura, for the withdrawal of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from the capital, after the UN began an enquiry into human rights abuses in the turbulent nation. The draft law was passed with 94 votes in favour, two against and 14 abstentions. It will next go to the Senate -- also dominated by the ruling party -- before being approved by President Pierre Nkurunziza. In April, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she was conducting a "preliminary examination" of the situation in Burundi -- the first step towards a full investigation and possible prosecutions -- looking into allegations including murder, torture, rape and forced disappearances. / AFP / ONESPHORE NIBIGIRA (Photo credit should read ONESPHORE NIBIGIRA/AFP/Getty Images) Is the International Criminal Court Crumbling Before Our Eyes?
With three African countries giving notice that they intend to abandon the ICC, a coordinated exodus might soon be coming.
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Den Haag, NETHERLANDS: People enter the International Criminal Court, 20 June 2006 in the Hague. Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was today en route to the Netherlands for trial for war crimes. Taylor will be kept in the same jail that held Yugoslav ex-president Slobodan Milosevic. Taylor faces 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity arising from the decade-long civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. As soon as he arrives, the former President will be transferred to the detention unit of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which shares a prison with the UN court which tried Milosevic, known as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). AFP PHOTO ANP JUAN VRIJDAG ** NETHERLANDS OUT ** (Photo credit should read JUAN VRIJDAG/AFP/Getty Images) Burundi Promised More Countries Would Withdraw from the ICC. Now South Africa Has.
Now that Burundi and South Africa have moved to leave the ICC, more African countries are expected to follow.
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Cover_3 In Pursuit of the African Dream
Two brothers risked everything for a better future thousands of miles from home. Their crushing story of failure reveals a continent’s broken immigration system.
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A woman holds up a poster with a photo of Nelson Mandela , during the Nelson Mandela tribute concert, called, " A life celebrated", at Cape Town Stadium on December 11 2013, in Cape Town. Mandela, South Africa's first democratically elected president, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died at his home in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013. AFP / RODGER BOSCH (Photo credit should read RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images) Goodbye, Party of Nelson Mandela. Hello, Rainbow Nation.
The African National Congress suffered its worst-ever defeat at the polls. That’s good news for South African democracy.
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BY COURT ORDER, THIS IMAGE IS FREE TO USE. PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - OCTOBER 16 (SOUTH AFRICA OUT): Oscar Pistorius attends his sentencing hearing in the Pretoria High Court on October 16, 2014, in Pretoria, South Africa. Judge Thokozile Masipa found Pistorius not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but convicted him of culpable homicide. Sentencing continues today. (Photo by Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images) Can South Africa Finally Stop Caring About Oscar Pistorius Now?
More than three-and-a-half years after he killed his girlfriend, the amputee Olympian’s legal saga appears to have finally come to an end.
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GettyImages-452184620_6-29 The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen
There will be no bloc of “emerging economies” rising up to challenge the Western order. But what comes next may be more chaotic and dangerous.
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Foreign Policy_DEF Dredging Up the Demons
Is collective memory of national nightmares always a good thing?
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GettyImages-524847106 crop As Elections Loom, There’s a Crisis at South Africa’s Public Broadcaster
Critics warn that the state broadcasting company is currying favor with the ruling party — at the cost of journalistic objectivity.
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Booklist_image1 Around the World in 40 Books
Headed to Rio, Paris, or Cape Town this summer? We asked distinguished writers and thinkers to pick their favorite books about 20 of the world’s great cities.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers Is Brazil the Chicago of Latin America?
We shouldn’t be surprised that Brazil — and other countries in the BRICS — is dealing with the stumbles and falls of an emerging economy. Meaningful progress takes decades.
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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 14: South African president Jacob Zuma speaks during an African National Congress (ANC) led alliance send off ceremony at Waterkloof military airbase on December 14, 2013 in Pretoria, South Africa. The ANC held an official send off ceremony as the body of former South African President prepares to make one final journey to his hometown of Qunu for burial. Mr. Mandela passed away on the evening of December 5, 2013 at his home in Houghton at the age of 95. Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994 after spending 27 years in jail for his activism against apartheid in a racially-divided South Africa. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Nelson Mandela’s Party Is Turning on Jacob Zuma
The African National Congress is realizing the only way to save itself is to ditch South Africa’s president.
