Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's Robberg caves match contemporaneous styles found in Namibia and Lesotho, ...

Novelist Nadine Gordimer crossed South Africa’s color line to become a staunch opponent of apartheid and supporter of the ANC ...

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water—by up to 2 millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed ...

On World Book Day, South Africa’s early literacy crisis takes centre stage. As the country grapples with a deep literacy ...

I am five, and the book is Enid Blyton’s Five on a Treasure Island, passed down to me from when my dad was a child. In it, we ...

Setting up a unity government highlights that a positive turnaround is possible for South Africa, though it is far from ...

Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.