South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered an inquiry to establish whether previous governments led by his party intentionally blocked investigations and prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes.

A government led by freedom fighters who helped to liberate the country more than 30 years ago is now overseeing a police ...

South Africa has opened a new inquiry into the killings of ... A sign displayed on a beach in the Western Cape Province reads “White Area” during the apartheid in South Africa on June 23, 1976 ...

JOHANNESBURG – A selection of South African artworks produced during the country’s apartheid era which ended up in foreign art collections is on display in Johannesburg to mark 30 years since ...

A data analysis by The New York Times shows that a form of torture popular during apartheid endures in the country despite ...

South Africa was a key ally of the United States during the Cold War, and as late as the early 1970 s, racial segregation looked like it would endure in some form in South Africa.

Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last leader of South Africa’s apartheid government who oversaw his country’s transition away from white minority rule, died at the age of 85 on Thursday. Frederik ...

Thanks to these and other stellar musicians in exile in the US and UK, South African jazz became a focus for the global anti-apartheid movement which gathered pace during the 1970s and 1980s. When ...

CROSSROADS, South Africa — The end of apartheid was supposed to be a beginning. Judith Sikade envisioned escaping the townships, where the government had forced black people to live.

Kganye’s work is one-half of “Tell Me What You Remember,” an exhibition at the Barnes Foundation pairing the work of an older artist who was making work in apartheid South Africa, Sue Williamson, with ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as "The Blood Knot" and "'Master Harold' ...

They alleged that successive South African governments since the late 1990s had failed to properly investigate unresolved killings, disappearances and other crimes during the time of forced racial ...