South Africa Articles

John Harris was not yet 30 when he went to the gallows. Convicted of the bombing of Johannesburg train station, he was the only white person to be executed by the South African apartheid regime for crimes committed in resistance to apartheid. The account of Harris’...

The great Nelson Mandela embodied the dream of freedom and justice. He will remain not just a figure of struggle for equality for black South Africans and black people around the world but a celebrated unifying figure for all. His life bought people of all races...

How happy must stopped clocks be on those rare moments when they are right! Small wonder, then, that the likes of Nick Clegg, Mehdi Hasan and George Galloway want to turn the conversation back to Iraq whenever possible. Unfortunately, the anti-war movement is a...

Anglo American Plc is a London-based global mining giant. It has a yearly revenue of over $28bn. But it also has a dark past, one which it wishes the world would forget. Anglo American’s South African subsidiary (wholly owned by Anglo American Plc) were the largest...