CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa will hold pivotal national elections May 29 as polls show the ruling African National Congress could lose its majority for the first time since it came to power with the fall of apartheid 30 years ago. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the date Tuesday as Africa’s most developed economy … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Peter Magubane, a South African photojournalist who documented apartheid’s unrest and repression and was also caught in its grip, once jailed in solitary confinement for 586 days and banned from work for five years by the White-rule regime, died Jan. 1 at 91. The death was announced … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Mbongeni Ngema, a South African playwright who decried the injustices of White-rule apartheid while also celebrating Black culture and resilience in works including the Broadway hit “Sarafina!” that later became a film starring Whoopi Goldberg, died Dec. 27 following a car accident. He was 68. Mr. Ngema … Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died. He was 91. Magubane died Monday, according to the South African National Editors’ … Read more
HERZLIYA, Israel — A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence company advised The Related Press on Wednesday that Israel is imposing an apartheid system within the West Financial institution, becoming a member of a tiny however rising checklist of retired officers to endorse an thought that continues to be largely on the fringes of Israeli … Read more