South Africa

After decades of dictatorship, Gambia has launched a truth commission. But in a country where some victims were also perpetrators, delivering justice to all won’t be easy.

South Africa and Angola have influence. They must use it to ensure that the Congolese government respects the will of voters.

Why South Africa’s formerly segregated townships are still central to its imagination.

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In a country where no one trusts the police, vigilante groups promising to stop gang violence were initially welcomed. Now, with extralegal justice on the rise, some citizens have had enough.

As Pretoria prepares to confront the legacy of colonial and apartheid-era land theft, hardly anyone seems to care about the claims of the country’s earliest inhabitants—the Khoisan.

South Africa’s president tells Foreign Policy about his plans to tackle corruption, redistribute land, and restore the country’s moral leadership.

I wrote about Chinese oppression in a South African paper. Hours later, they cancelled my column.

Internal cable cites report that farm murders in South Africa are at their lowest level in 19 years.

South Africa needs to redistribute property—but not all appropriation is made the same.

The president’s tweet followed a misleading segment on Fox News.

If Kim Jong Un follows in F.W. de Klerk’s footsteps, denuclearization could allow North Korea to move from pariah status to prosperity.

By keeping a key challenger in jail, Turkey’s government risks making Selahattin Demirtas an even more popular and formidable opponent.

South Africa’s ruling party has failed to redistribute land to the black majority for over two decades. Can the new president defuse a ticking time bomb?

Smoke and mirrors aside, the Israeli prime minister’s presentation was an endorsement of existing nuclear diplomacy with Tehran.

Cape Town is running out of water. Israel offers some lessons on how to avoid that fate.

South Africa's president weathered scandal after scandal while driving his country’s economy and reputation into the ground. His luck has finally run out.

As Cape Town counts down to Day Zero, South Africans worry about severe unrest and outbreaks of disease.

The newly elected leader of the African National Congress is being treated like a messiah. But he might not even win the next election.

Zimbabwe’s military didn’t topple the regime. It just restored the ruling party’s corrupt old guard to power.