List of South Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Unraveling of Jacob Zuma
South Africa’s president just sacked two finance ministers in a week. Now many in his own party are questioning whether he should still be in charge.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South African President: Africa Is the World’s Biggest Continent and All Other Continents Could Fit Inside
South Africa's president seems geographically confused about which continent is the world's largest, and how it relates in scale to everywhere else.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Student Protests Rocking South Africa Are About More Than Tuition
Two decades after the end of apartheid, the country is still riven by inequality and injustice. Students have had enough.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Africa’s Tough Lessons on Migrant Policy
South Africa tried to be generous with its refugee policies. The outcome was not good. Here’s what Europe — and the U.S. — can learn.
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DUMA,WEST BANK - JULY 31: Family members and relatives of 18 month old baby, Ali Saad-Dawabsheh, view the remains of their house after a fire which was suspected to have been set by Jewish extremists on July 31, 2015 in the Palestinian village of Duma, West Bank. A house fire in the Palestinian village of Duma, West Bank, suspected to have been set by Jewish extremists, killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child, injured both parents and a four year old brother. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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Muslim ethnic Uighur women pass a Chinese paramilatary police on patrol on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region on July 3, 2010 ahead of the first anniversary of bloody violence that erupted between the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity. The government says nearly 200 people were killed and about 1,700 injured in the unrest, China's worst ethnic violence in decades, with Han making up most of the victims. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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Haitians queue up to legalize their status at the Interior Ministry in Santo Domingo, on June 17, 2015. Tens of thousands of people are facing deportations as a deadline for foreigners, most of them being Haitians, to legalize their status as undocumented alien is due to expire midnight. AFP PHOTO / ERIKA SANTELICES (Photo credit should read ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Charleston Suspect Wore Apartheid-Era South African and Rhodesian Flags
The suspect in the Charleston shooting wore the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia, both white supremacist states.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Omar al-Bashir Just Made a Mockery of International Justice. Again.
South Africa just let the dictator of Sudan fly home — that's bad news for the International Criminal Court.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘The Pool Is for Fire Safety,’ and Other Excuses for Remodeling Jacob Zuma’s Mansion
South African President Jacob Zuma has faced hundreds of corruption allegations in the past. Now he's been cleared of overusing government funds to ramp up his already lavish private home.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘I Am a Kwerekwere’
Life as a foreigner in xenophobic South Africa.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Fear Grips the Rainbow Nation
Hiding out from the violence in squatter camps, South Africa's immigrants take stock of their future in a country that doesn't want them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nigeria’s Election: Brought To You By These Hired Guns
Heading into a pivotal vote, the government of Nigeria is pulling out all the stops in its war on Boko Haram. That means turning to mercenaries.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nigeria Taps South African Mercenaries in Fight Against Boko Haram
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has a new strategy for defeating Boko Haram before the highly-contested March 28 presidential elections: hiring South African mercenaries to lead the charge.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Annals of wars we don’t know about: The South African border war of 1966-1989
Reading South African accounts of the 23-year long Border War between South Africa and the Angolan liberation movement UNITA on the one hand, and the Angolan government and army, supported by large Cuban forces on the other, is almost hypnotically compelling.
