It took one day for young South Africans to change the course of the country’s history: 16 June 1976, now half a century ago. Here's an hour-by-hour account of the 1976 Soweto students’ uprising.

ProEthics and its director Dr Janette Minnaar tried to stop us publishing this article

Africa is home to 55 countries, an ancient and complex history, modern cities, some 3,000 languages and over a billion people. From Algeria to Zimbabwe, here’s a snapshot of each country on a continen...

Equaldex is a collaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) movement, visualizing LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timelines, and data.

This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the journalist Gil Duran about his upcoming book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage

The claim that the small African country of Uganda has discovered 31 million tonnes of gold ore with a yield of 320,000 tonnes of refined gold is going viral. But its numbers are, simply, impossible.

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map

But the City still has a list of public libraries that remain closed

President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Large chunk of R114-million fund to go to administrators

Alex Jones posted an old video of a historic crisis with the suggestion it was a typical day in South Africa – and “the future of ALL Western countries if changes are not made fast”.

The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive

South Africa is home to 63 million people. About 81.7% of them are black, 8.5% coloured, 2.6% Indian/Asian and 7.2% white. Find out more about birth, death, age, HIV, migration and other population tr...

Dismissed as the “sad man” of South African jazz, Kippie Moeketsi was in reality as a brilliant player and stern mentor, fiercely defiant of his racist world.

It protects everyone in the country – not just citizens. The Bill of Rights safeguards dignity, equality and freedom, and demands that basic needs are met.

Several African nations rank higher than the US and Europe in a new scientific measure of wellbeing, thanks to strong community ties, purpose and resilience.

They have found important fossils in the human family. They have no degrees but instruct visiting researchers. Now the fossil technicians of the Sterkfontein Caves may get the recognition they deserve...

A quote from Phillip Tobias illustrates the strange way that we talk about human variation compared to other species.

Here’s a puzzle: how could evolution favour such a costly, frivolous and fun activity as animal play?

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The SA government should ignore the cries of pro-Western critics (which, in some quarters also includes the offensive suggestion that it appoint a white man as ambassador to the US) that discount Sout...

Robert Sobukwe was an academic, a lawyer, a lyrical writer and a persuasive orator. For a time, apartheid authorities saw him as more dangerous than Nelson Mandela.

Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”

Musk lambastes judges as leftwing activists in more than 20 posts as Trump administration’s judiciary clash intensifies

Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”

Cancellation letters, which end millions of rands of South African universities’ US-government funded HIV and TB research grants with immediate effect, started to roll in over the weekend. Fears are r...

South Africa has 12 official languages. IsiZulu and isiXhosa are the largest languages, while English is spoken at home by under 9% of the population, two-thirds of them not white.

Joint analysis of measles cases reveals Covid pandemic resulted in misinformation and vaccination delays

Tesla sales are falling and apps and online groups are springing up to help consumers choose non-US items

South Africa’s story of HIV and Aids starts with tragic arrogance in a new democracy suddenly threatened from an unexpected direction. Then came activism and tenacity by ordinary citizens. Today, the ...

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