African National Congress

'Backsliding ... that we haven’t seen in decades, with coups and conflicts and political instability and fraudulent elections in many countries.'

Former Mandela aide blames failures on the party and not apartheid for crime and millions of South Africans ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Hundreds were arrested for public violence, homes were petrol-bombed, and trains and buses attacked as South ...

South Africa's National Assembly passed legislation on Sept. 28 that would allow the government to seize land without ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—There it was on South African TV screens on the morning of Thursday Nov. 4, a ...

JOHANNESBURG—Nelson Mandela said he “loved” Afrikaans, even though it was the language of the people who imprisoned him ...

News Analysis Recent civil unrest in South Africa—which has claimed over 300 lives—should serve as a warning to ...

JOHANNESBURG—She stumbled across the plains, gripping the hands of her frightened young daughters, her helper dragging panels of ...

South Africa’s parliament will soon begin to debate a bill designed to put more prime farmland in black ...

On the surface, 2014 appears to represent “business as usual” for the landscape of South Africa’s electoral politics. ...