Food had become scarce, medical supplies were running out, and gasoline was being rationed. When heavily armed troops last week encircled government buildings in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, the ...

As scenes of terrorist carnage unfolded in Vienna and Rome, a spasm of racial violence shattered seasonal hopes of peace and goodwill across South Africa. For the country’s whites, all signs appeared ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A top police official who claimed that South Africa’s police and justice system has been infiltrated by criminal syndicates took the stand Wednesday at a government-backed probe ...

Johannesburg Water has moved to assure residents that progress is being made to improve water supply to Coronationville in the west of the city.

South Africa's racist apartheid regime said no one was to blame for activist Steve Biko's death in prison. 48 years later, ...