Cape Town activists say the investigation into policing in the violence-torn area is long overdue.
Thousands of people have been languishing in prison for years without having been convicted and the causes of judicial delays are manifold.
The virulence of British media hostility towards the WikiLeaks founder is now unrelenting and has little to do with his rape case.
Statistically speaking, a Marikana massacre occurs many times every year beneath the surface of South Africa’s mining badlands.
Disabled people experience hate, guilt, patronising attitudes, avoidance and persecution. Philippa Perry asks why.
It is just 16 years since South Africa first played in Mendoza, but the rugby landscape has changed fundamentally since then.
Once notorious for off-field antics, Lerato Chabangu is back with a vengeance and swimming bravely upstream.
It seems peculiar that a mountain-climbing polar explorer should make such a material difference to winning a cricket Test series.
Just a few hours after Meles Zenawi’s death was announced, British prime ministers – past and present – were queueing to pay tribute.
The Republican party has made it almost impossible for millions of black and Hispanic Americans to get the IDs they need to vote in November.