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South Africans participated in a highly contested election, with the ANC potentially losing its parliamentary majority.

When Mariana Ubisi went into labour in her one-room home in rural South Africa, millions of Black citizens were queuing to vote in the election that would bring Nelson Mandela to power. ... -April 18, 2024 at 05:13 am EDT - MarketScreener

The struggle is real, reads the caption of one TikTok video in which South African mom Lungile Zenda tries to teach her daughter how to say a sentence in their native language, Zulu. ... -February 23, 2024 at 03:06 am EST - MarketScreener

South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius' release on parole on Friday, nearly 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, provoked a raw response in a country scarred by violence against women. Pistorius, who has said repeatedly that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder, spent about eight and a half years in jail as well as seven months under house arrest, but for many that is not enough. "Considering that I'm a woman in the rape capital of the world, I&#x2...

Thabsie Mabezane, a transgender woman and LGBT+ activist in South Africa, was aware of personal safety when she met a man on the dating app Tinder earlier this year. ... -December 08, 2023 at 03:04 am EST - MarketScreener

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African anti-apartheid and gay activist Simon Nkoli, who organised Africa's first Pride march in 1990, died 25 years ag...

A South African violist has used music and art to explore the painful legacy of how labourers at wineries in the Western Cape province were for centuries given wine as part of their payment, a... -October 26, 2023 at 06:16 am EDT - MarketScreener

Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge breakthrough that will help him to get to university and make his "dreams come true". President Cyril Ramaphosa signed legislation into law last month recognising sign as the country's 12th official language, alongside English, isiZulu, Afrikaans and others, to help protect the rights of the deaf and promote incl...

By Thando Hlophe JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's ...

Fear of rape is widespread in South Africa and those who can afford it often take self-defence classes.