Timeline: Zuma’s legal problems
Monday, 6 April 2009 12:23 UK Jacob Zuma, the leader of South Africa’s governing party, has had charges of corruption against him dropped. He has been in and out of court over the last four…
Analysis: Zuma’s challenges
By Farouk Chothia BBC News Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:11 UK Jacob Zuma is unlikely to be given a honeymoon period as president For as long as South Africa’s opposition parties champion pro-business policies, they…
Rise and fall of Thabo Mbeki
By Martin Plaut BBC Africa analyst Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela and led South Africa for a decade Thabo Mbeki was born into one of the leading families of the African National Congress. His father –…
Why Mbeki had to go
By Martin Plaut BBC Africa analyst Thabo Mbeki has been left with few friends in the upper ranks of the ANC The African National Congress’s decision to sack President Thabo Mbeki has been described by…
Marikana mine: Wake-up call for South Africa’s ANC
By Robin DenselowBBC Newsnight, Marikana 24 August 2012 Media captionSome of the images in this report may be disturbing. The death of dozens of miners in a crackdown on industrial action has exposed deep divisions…
South Africa profile – Timeline
25 June 2015 From the sectionAfrica A chronology of key events: 4th century – Migrants from the north settle, joining the indigenous San and Khoikhoi people. National hero: Nelson Mandela Anti-Apartheid icon walks free after…
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma – a profile
1 April 2016 From the sectionAfrica Image copyrightAFP Jacob Zuma is the most colourful and controversial president South Africa has had since white-minority rule ended in 1994. He was born into poverty, went into exile…
South Africa country profile
11 February 2016 From the sectionAfrica South Africa has one of the continent’s biggest and most developed economies. Up until 1994 it was ruled by a white minority which enforced a separation of races with…
The Great Reversal: Stats SA claims black youth are less skilled than their parents
MARIANNE MERTEN SOUTH AFRICA 18 APR 2016 10:40 (SOUTH AFRICA) Bad news from Statistics South Africa for the new generation of black Africans, those aged between 25 and 34: according to new research, they are…
Righting the wrongs of apartheid
But affirmative action has its limitations Apr 6th 2006 | AS PART of the historic deal struck in 1994 to ease the way for democracy, South Africa’s whites ceded political power to the ANC. In…