South Africa crowns first black ‘Idol’
theGRIO REPORT - 'Idols SA' first launched in 2002, and eight seasons later, the television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol finally crowned its first black winner...
Special to premiere on Oprah school's 1st class
theGRIO REPORT - The Oprah Winfrey Network will premiere a television special on October 14 following the journey of the first graduating class from Oprah's leadership academy...
South African miners' strike shows economic inequality persists for blacks
ANALYSIS - What started as a labor dispute involving a few thousand workers who want better pay and conditions has exploded into South Africa’s greatest scandal since its miracle birth of democracy in 1994...
Mandela's daughter Zindzi promotes road safety
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - When Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a June 2010 car crash, her tragic death cast a shadow over the start of the FIFA World Cup, and kept the former president and Nobel Prize winner away from the opening events...
South African gets life for killing white supremacist
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A black farmworker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the brutal murder of South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche in a case that has been a source of racial tension in the city of Ventersdorp...
South African miners vow to fight to the death
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Frantic wives searched for missing loved ones, President Jacob Zuma rushed home from a regional summit and some miners vowe…
Hillary Clinton to South Africans: Fulfill Mandela legacy
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africans must live up to Nelson Mandela's legacy by promoting human rights and democracy among their neighbors and around the world, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday....
Hillary Clinton dances in South Africa
theGRIO REPORT - Hillary Clinton may have have a reputation for being a serious stateswoman, but she knows how to cut loose too. The Secretary of State hit the dance floor at a reception in South Africa on Tuesday evening...
South African runner in Olympic debut 3 years after gender test
LONDON (AP) - Caster Semenya perched herself on a lane marker behind the start of the 800 meters and took a few moments to absorb what it feels like to be an Olympian...
Rare snow fall stuns South Africa's Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — People have poured out of offices, pointed mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall now blanketing South Africa's city of Johannesburg...
