Miguel Díaz-Canel, a Communist Party loyalist, is expected to succeed Raúl Castro as president of Cuba, but will this change bring prosperity?
To change South Africa to a socialist state will not happen through a social pact, writes Frans Rautenbach
He outlived his great comrade and compañero Che Guevara by a little over 49 years, but now Fidel Castro is dead.
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President Zuma attended the funeral of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, where he delivered a graceful tribute.
Love him or loathe him, the Cuban leader’s legacy cannot be denied.
History will always judge people differently based on who is writing it writes Ahmed Kathrada
"I have never been afraid of death," Castro said in 2002. "I have never been concerned about death."
Cuba’s education builds on cultural and national identity, parents’ involvement and multigrade schools.
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The hurricane caused severe flooding and killed four people in the Dominican Republic as well as at least 13 in Haiti.
Funding and investments between Global South countries are seemingly positive, but also obscure, writes Jakkie Cilliers.
United States President Barack Obama makes a rare visit to Cuba this week. This after his December 2014 announcement of renewed relations with Cuba.
The mayor, Clint Johnson, wants to highlight the journey of thousands of Cubans who risk the journey each year.
Cuba’s foreign minister takes the hugely symbolic step of raising his country’s flag at a newly designated embassy in Washington.
The heralding of new beginnings and "honour" was the sentiment that summed up the Cuban Five’s trip to Robben Island.
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Cuba has found a Florida bank to handle its business in Washington, removing the last impediment to conducting financial transactions in the US.
Photographs of Fidel Castro, which showed the former president meeting with a student union leader, have been released to hush rumours of illness.
In the first round of historic talks between the two countries, the US vowed to continue giving Cubans safe haven, despite Cuba’s objections.
The talks aim to restore diplomatic ties and eventually normalise relations between the two, which have been locked in Cold War-era hostilities.
US President Barack Obama warned the Republican-led Congress to end their resistance to higher taxes on the wealthy, saying he won’t back down.
Cuba’s periodo especial was a cause of both suffering and initiative, as noted by SA medical students.
The South African government hailed normalising diplomatic ties between Cuba and the US, and urged the US to move swiftly in its diplomatic relations.
Restoring normal diplomatic relations offers an opportunity for the US and Cuba to engage on equal terms for the first time in their troubled history.
South Africa R350-million economic assistance deal with Cuba would aid agricultural development and reconstruction of infrastructure.
Yoani Sanchez, a dissident Cuban blogger, will launch the website of Cuba’s first major independent general interest newspaper in five decades.
It was a small gesture: a handshake between Barack Obama and Raul Castro. It’s just what Nelson Mandela would have wanted, but does it amount to more?
US President Barack Obama has shaken hands with Cuba’s Raul Castro, a rare gesture between the two ideologically opposed nations.
Edward Snowden has won support from Cuba for his bid to seek asylum in Latin America, as he embarked on his third week in limbo at a Moscow airport.
The star couple is said to have been carrying permits to visit Cuba, but Florida senator Marco Rubio has criticised the holiday.
US pop star Beyoncé and her rapper husband Jay-Z’s fifth wedding anniversary celebration in Havana has sparked criticism from the Republican Party.
Venezuela’s government has for the first time revealed that President Hugo Chavez has been receiving chemotherapy since undergoing surgery in Cuba.
Hugo Chavez’s swearing-in for a new six-year term can be postponed if he is unable to attend due to his battle to recover from cancer surgery.
Namibia has been condemned for planning to donate a "Noah’s Ark" of 150 wild animals – including lions, rhino, cheetah and leopards – to Cuba.