JOHANNESBURG – Perhaps nowhere in today's South Africa is the country's inequality on more dramatic display than in the neighboring Johannesburg suburbs of Sandton and Alexandra. With its gleaming ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. Next week, South Africa will go to the polls. It's a milestone election, coming 20 years after the country's first free election in 1994. It ...

The Barnes Foundation hosts work by two artists: one making work since apartheid, the other growing up in post-apartheid South Africa. Lebohang Kganye looks at her patchwork cloth re-creation of a ...

Years ago, I hopped on a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, excited for what promised to be the trip of a lifetime. I had been invited by an NBA agent to attend the NBA All-Star Game held in the ...

“Apartheid hasn’t ended. It’s still there, but in a subtle manner.” So says Mrs. Khumalo, an subject quoted in Bernadette Atuahene’s brilliant new book, “We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South ...

JOHANNESBURG — Perhaps nowhere in today’s South Africa is the country’s inequality on more dramatic display than in the neighboring Johannesburg suburbs of Sandton and Alexandra. With its gleaming ...

For decades, the two strong-willed women in Yewande Omotoso's new novel were committed enemies. Hortensia is black, Marion is white and both are widows in their 80s. Their properties — in an affluent ...

SOWETO, South Africa — In the shade of a tree on a sunny day, Isac Matate set up a rickety bookstand in a ragged square that was once a beacon for the struggle that ended apartheid in South Africa.