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November 30, 2022
The convicted killer of South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani has been stabbed in prison, two days before he was…
April 8, 2022
WHO estimates that the number of actual COVID-19 cases in Africa may have been nearly 100 times more than reported.
December 27, 2021
The late archbishop's activism continues to reverberate among many who weren't yet born when Desmond Tutu fought apartheid.
September 23, 2020
John Nkengasong has helped to steer Africa’s 54 countries into an alliance praised as responding better to virus than other…
July 1, 2020
A protest against Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine trial was underway as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing.
September 3, 2019
Deadly riots have sparked in South Africa as citizens there become angered with the presence of foreign nationals, who they…
Barack Obama thegrio.com
July 19, 2018
Former President Barack Obama is tired of watching men make a mess of things and wants more women to get involved in…
Vicky Momberg thegrio.com
March 29, 2018
A white former South African estate agent Vicky Momberg was convicted and jailed for being a racist and hurling racial…
August 18, 2015
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man identified as one of Nelson Mandela's grandsons has been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old…
September 20, 2014
OPINION - A recent visit to South Africa exposed me to some of the most beautiful landscapes, cities and attractions.…
December 10, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Corruption scandals have stained Zuma and the ANC, the liberation movement during apartheid that casts itself as…
August 31, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela went home in an ambulance on Sunday after nearly three months in a hospital that…
June 30, 2013
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - President Barack Obama on Sunday will announce a new initiative to double access to…
June 14, 2013
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South African couple Thithi Nteta and Dylan Lloyd have different accounts of how they met and…
March 28, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been admitted to a…
March 11, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The building that houses South Africa's highest court, made partly with bricks from an apartheid-era prison, symbolizes…
February 7, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The 17-year-old lived long enough to identify one of her attackers, a 22-year-old...
December 27, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The doctors treating former South African leader Nelson Mandela believe he should remain in Johannesburg for now…
December 24, 2012
JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela's life is an open book. Volumes chronicle every aspect of his 94 years. However, all that…
December 11, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is suffering from a recurring lung infection and is responding to…