South Africa

The coronavirus arrived late to the continent, but the early responses could backfire.

Governments around the world are banning fake news about the crisis—and cracking down on their critics while they’re at it.

Israel has long resisted the South Africa analogy, but the U.S. government’s support for annexation is making it a reality.

Allegations of mismanagement at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa go unaddressed.

“There’s zero support or pushback from the department for the career people,” said one former U.S. official.

The prime minister’s vision of a “Global Britain” after Brexit will only succeed if he abandons imperial nostalgia in favor of practical investment in the continent’s fast-growing economies.

Zimbabwe and its richer neighbor South Africa are in the throes of an electricity crisis. Alternative sources of energy are the solution.

The implosion of the country’s leading opposition party is bad news for competitive politics and democratic institutions—and its impact will be felt across Africa.

Forty years ago, a U.S. satellite detected the telltale signs of a nuclear explosion. An analysis of the evidence today points to a clandestine nuclear test, a Carter administration cover-up, and only one country that was willing and able to carry it out: Israel.

The ANC government must acknowledge that xenophobic violence is a hate crime and a betrayal of the African allies that aided it during the darkest days of apartheid.

Africa has the world’s youngest population and its oldest leaders. If the next generation wants change, young Africans must abandon dreams of private-sector success and enter the political arena.

Beijing’s infrastructure projects may grab headlines, but its efforts to shape the media are more dangerous.

The African National Congress won again in South Africa, but a new generation identifies the party more with corruption than liberation and is seeking solutions through protests and lawsuits rather than at the ballot box.

U.S. relations with Iran continued to unravel as South Africa went to the polls.

Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged a new dawn as president, but the secretary-general of his own party has built a web of corruption that thrives on darkness.

Voting for the ANC in the hope that its leader can clean house is a leap of faith. Those who looted South Africa’s government won’t give up so easily.