Some are calling events over the last week democratic South Africa's "darkest hour". Is it more than a spontaneous triggering of anger brought about by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma?

The death toll in South Africa has risen to 72 as violence ... Many South Africans have been shaken by the riots that have swept through Zuma's political heartland of KwaZulu-Natal and the ...

South Africa has been since last week going through a wave of riots and looting which has already ... of the controversial former president Jacob Zuma (2009-2018) for judicial contempt, has ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A general view of Estcourt Correctional Centre, where South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma is being held after he ...

Protests and later violence and looting erupted last week after former President Jacob Zuma was arrested after ... which he said prohibits people in South Africa from using the internet to incite ...

questions about the party’s long-term viability and Zuma’s role in shaping South Africa’s future have become pressing. The MK party, named after the armed wing of the ANC during apartheid, ...

Zuma's nine-year tenure saddled South Africa with weak growth, ballooning national debt, depressed investor confidence and record unemployment. The ANC forced Zuma from office in February largely ...

Mr Zuma was disqualified from running ... drawing parallels to the events that led to violent riots in July 2021. Read: Who will lead South Africa after elections?"These narratives attacking ...

That party is named after the armed wing that the ANC formed when it was fighting white-minority rule in South Africa. As the police minister in Mr Zuma's cabinet, Mr Nhleko gained infamy for ...

SOUTH AFRICA’S ruling African National Congress cheered the defeat of an opposition bid to impeach President Jacob Zuma yesterday. The motion supported by the liberal Democratic Alliance (DA) and ANC ...

Zuma was the spymaster of the ANC inside and outside of South Africa during the years of white-minority rule, before returning triumphantly in 1990. Almost four years since leaving office ...