A guide to South Africa’s most important museums, offering insight into the nation’s past, culture, and political history.

During apartheid, from 1948 to 1994, music emerged as a beacon of hope and a weapon of resistance and protest within South Africa while local artists in exile during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s also ...

A series of police massacres from the 1960s to the 1980s helped seal the fate of white minority rule in South Africa, so it’s hardly surprising that last week’s killing of 34 striking mine workers has ...

South Africa’s award-winning writer Breyten Breytenbach, an anti-apartheid activist who was jailed for his beliefs, died on Sunday in Paris at the age of 85. The poet, author and painter left his ...

Black-and-white pictures were projected onto the wall of a South African classroom and gospel music played evocatively in the background. The pictures told a chilling tale: Angry protesters. Policemen ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death, and it rejected a ...