List of South Africa articles
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About 1,000 members of the Landless Peoples Movement of South Africa march on to the National Land Summit in Johannesburg on July 27, 2005. This Land Is Our Land
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?
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Bibi’s Infomercial for the Iran Deal
Smoke and mirrors aside, the Israeli prime minister’s presentation was an endorsement of existing nuclear diplomacy with Tehran.
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Jewish workers drill for water in Kfar Monash, a farm in the British Mandate of Palestine, in August 1946. (Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) How to Defeat Drought
Cape Town is running out of water. Israel offers some lessons on how to avoid that fate.
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South African President Jacob Zuma wipes his face with his hand as he answers hostile questions at the South African parliament in Cape Town on August 6, 2015. Zuma Has Fallen
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.
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A man collects drinking water from taps in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 15, 2017. (Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images) What Happens When a Major World City Runs Dry?
As Cape Town counts down to Day Zero, South Africans worry about severe unrest and outbreaks of disease.
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Cyril Ramaphosa in a press conference in London on September 25, 2017. (Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images) Cyril Ramaphosa Isn’t South Africa’s Savior
The newly elected leader of the African National Congress is being treated like a messiah. But he might not even win the next election.
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Former President Robert Mugabe during a speech on Nov. 8 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images) Mugabe Is a Goner, But His Looting Machine Is Here to Stay
Zimbabwe’s military didn’t topple the regime. It just restored the ruling party’s corrupt old guard to power.
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A depiction of the Battle of Bloody Brook in King Philip's War. (Wikimedia Commons) Lepore’s assertion on war
The names of war
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 14: Gift Ngoepe of South Africa runs to first base during the World baseball Classic Final match between Australia and South Africa at Blacktown International Sportspark on February 14, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brett Hemmings/Getty Images) Baseball’s Billion-Person Cactus League
Gift Ngoepe was the first African-born player to make it to the big show. Major League Baseball is betting he won't be the last.
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Parliamentary officials prepare the chamber for voting prior to an unsuccessful vote of no-confidence against President Jacob Zuma on August 8, 2017 in the South African National Assembly in Cape Town. South Africa President Jacob Zuma on August 8 survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence, as ruling ANC party lawmakers stuck by their leader despite growing divisions and fierce criticism of his rule. Baleka Mbete, the Speaker of parliament, announced that the motion had been defeated, with 177 votes supporting and 198 votes against it. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / MARK WESSELS (Photo credit should read MARK WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images) South African President Survives Sixth No-Confidence Vote
The opposition comes as close as it ever has to removing Jacob Zuma from office.
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South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks during the funeral ceremony of South African former president Nelson Mandela in Qunu on December 15, 2013. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ODD ANDERSEN (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images) Will the Party of Nelson Mandela Die So That Jacob Zuma Can Live?
South Africa’s Teflon president has survived six attempts on his political life. Even if he survives a seventh, the damage to Africa’s most storied liberation movement is done.
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South African President and ruling party African National Congress President Jacob Zuma attends an inter-faith prayer held to pray for him on May 14, 2017 in Durban, South Africa. / AFP PHOTO / RAJESH JANTILAL (Photo credit should read RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images) South Africa’s Zuma May Have Finally Met the Scandal That Brings Him Down
For South Africa’s polygamist, scandal-plagued president, charisma isn’t enough anymore.
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Workers hold a donkey's hide before curing at a licensed slaughterhouse specialised in donkeys in Baringo, on February 28, 2017. The emergence of the global trade in donkey hide attributed mainly to the rise of Chinas middle class and an increased perception of the medicinal efficacy of a gelatine derived after boiling the hides, that is a key ingredient in a medicine called 'ejiao' has raised the price and the rate of slaughter of the animal. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) Chinese Smugglers Are Buying Up Hundreds of Thousands of Illegally Slaughtered African Donkeys
When they’re not smuggling ivory and rhino horn, Africa’s most notorious criminal syndicates are stealing farm animals to make a 2,500-year-old traditional Chinese remedy.
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Protesters demonstrate against South African President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria on Nov. 2, 2016. This Is What Happens When a Family of Business Moguls Takes Over a Country
The Gupta family’s shadowy business empire is a symbol of all that’s wrong with South Africa.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as an American flag passes the inaugural parade reviewing stand in front of the White House on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation's 45th president today. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) From a Shining City on a Hill to a Banana Republic
The essential step to restoring faith in American democracy is authorizing an independent investigation into the president’s ties to the government of Russia.
