South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane visits South Africa's conservative rural areas nearly 25 years after white-minority rule ended, and finds that racism is still deeply embedded but there are also ...

Loewenson’s project, “Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air,” explores the social and spatial dynamics in modern Africa. There’s a well-known ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

The north of Africa shares a boundary with Asia. Africa is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.

As a result of a law dating back to apartheid, in some cases only a man, considered the head of the family, may inherit a house [File: Sebabatso Mosamo/AP] Johannesburg, South Africa – For more ...

Expand your knowledge of geography and culture with our short country quizzes, all based on reporting, photos and videos from The New York Times. By John Otis and Michael Gonchar Test your ...

The DMZ divides the peninsula by separating North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) from South Korea (Republic of Korea). The DMZ is 2.4 miles wide and centers on a demarcation line that ...

UNHCR’s South Africa Multi-Country Office (SAMCO) serves nine countries: Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, and South Africa. Together they host ...

South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe and to support ICRC objectives in Africa. We provide tailored capacity-building to National Societies, pioneer humanitarian-centred smart solutions and use ...

Fixtures, results and scorecards from Afghanistan's "home" one-day international series against South Africa, played in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. President Ramaphosa agrees to delay some ...