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Albert Luthuli, winner of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance to apartheid, is shown in his home in Groutville, Natal Province, South Africa, on Oct. 24, 1961. (AP Photo, File)
South Africa reopens inquest into apartheid-era death of Nobel winner Luthuli, 58 years later
South African prosecutors have reopened an inquest into the apartheid-era death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli. It comes 58 years after the government declared he was accidentally killed by a train.
 
Activists chant slogans during the women's protest and hand over of a petition demanding that gender-based violence and femicide be declared a national disaster, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Crowds demonstrate against gender-based violence in South Africa after alleged rape of 7-year-old
A crowd of protesters staged a demonstration against gender-based violence in the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday as part of a national outcry after an alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl.
 
FILE- A Lesotho election official makes a phone call as he waits for last minute voters near the eastern Lesotho town of Mokhotlong Saturday May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)
How tiny Lesotho ended up with the highest US tariffs in the world
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have struck among others the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho, one of the world’s poorest nations. Trump announced a 50% tariff on Lesotho, the highest among all countries.
 
A homeless drug addict holds a syringe after injecting himself, on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
In South Africa, a needle exchange program for drug users feels the effects of Trump’s aid cuts
 
In this photo provided by the South African Government Communications and Information Services (GCIS), the Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana speaks before the vote for national budget for 2025 in the National Assembly, in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Jairus Mmutle/GCIS via AP)
South Africa’s unity government risks collapse as parties clash over national budget
South Africa’s fragile unity government has been shaken again. The country’s second-largest political party broke with partners Wednesday and voted against a national budget.
 
Trump nominates conservative media critic for ambassador to South Africa during strained relations
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator Leo Brent Bozell III as ambassador to South Africa.
 
Thembisa Mdoda-Nxumalo, who plays on the role of Winnie, left, with Ayanda Sibisi perform during a rehearsal of a theatre play called "The Cry of Winnie Mandela" at Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women’s long wait for absent men
A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison or faraway work during decades of white minority rule.
 
Placeholders prepare for the family photo of the G20 foreign ministers meeting that was later cancelled in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Foreign ministers talk war in Ukraine and other conflicts on last day of G20 meeting in South Africa
Foreign ministers and senior diplomats from leading rich and developing countries focused on global conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war, on the last day of their meeting in South Africa.
 
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrives for the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s ‘appetite’ for peace and challenges Lavrov at tense G20 meet
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy says he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia’s top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa.
 
Nozuko Majola's grand mother sits in her Umzimkhulu home Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, affected by U.S. President Donald Trump's global foreign aid freeze, raising worries about HIV patients defaulting on treatment. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other country. Trump’s aid freeze has hit hard
In the rural villages of South Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden freeze on foreign aid impacts hundreds of thousands of HIV patients.
 
Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa leaves by car from the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Anglican Church in South Africa admits failures in handling of sexual abuse claims
The Anglican Church leadership in South Africa has admitted to failing to disclose sexual abuse allegations against its former member John Smyth, who mistreated children in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.K. and Zimbabwe before fleeing to South Africa, where he died in 2018.
 
A man sits outside the closed Isizinda Sempilo clinic in the Johannesburg township of Soweto Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)
Africa knew Trump’s ‘America First’ pledge meant it might be last. Then came the freeze on aid
Many Africans knew that Trump’s “America First” outlook meant their continent was likely to be last among his priorities. But they hadn’t expected the abrupt halt to foreign aid from the world’s largest donor.
 
Duduzile Zuma, right, former South Africa's President Jacob Zuma's daughter watches on as a journalist asks a question during media briefing where her father was expected in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, June 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
Daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma arrested on terrorism charges over riots
A daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been arrested on terrorism charges for allegedly inciting violence during deadly riots that shook the country in 2021.
 
Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, points out the technology capabilities of the mobile rescue winder that was used to rescue miners, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
The rescue of hundreds of miners in a deep South African gold mine began with a camera and a note
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported to be trapped and starving.
 
Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Illegal mining ringleader escaped during South Africa disaster with help from officers, police say
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where dozens of miners died and 246 were rescued last week.
 
A miner, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals, shows bruises on his hands that he got while climbing out of the mine, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground
A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally digging for gold.
 
A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.
 
Forensic service workers carry bodies in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
South African police end mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors
South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies of those who died.
 
A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground
Rescuers have sent a cagelike device into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds of miners working illegally in an abandoned shaft who have been trapped for months.
 
Relatives and friends protest near a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)
At least 100 illegal miners have died while trapped in a South African mine for months, group says
A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out.
 
Renowned South African artist Esther Mahlangu's iconic BMW 525i is seen on display at the Wits Arts Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/ Mogomotsi Magome)
South African retrospective exhibition honors the colorful work of artist Esther Mahlangu
A retrospective exhibition in South Africa is honoring Esther Mahlangu, a local artist from a rural background who has become internationally known for her colorful work in traditional Ndebele painting.
 
Entrepreneur Matebogo Victoria communicates using a sign language during an interview with The Associated Press at the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
A farming project in South Africa is helping deaf people build skills and find jobs
In South Africa, where the general unemployment rate is over 32%, deaf people face even steeper hurdles.
 
Janusz Walus, Polish immigrant and convicted killer of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, is sworn in during a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, on Nov. 24, 1997. (AP Photo/Cobus Bodenstein, File)
Janusz Walus, killer of South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, to be deported to Poland
The South African government says the convicted killer of South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani will be deported to his home country of Poland after his parole came to an end this week.
 
Police officers and volunteer rescuers stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
What to know about a standoff between police and illegal miners at a South Africa mine
South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at an abandoned mine, apparently fearing arrest by police officers at the site.
 
Police officers and private security personnel stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, Friday, Nov.15, 2024. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
South African government seeks experts’ help to bring illegal miners to the surface
The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to surface illegal miners who remain under a disused gold mine.
 
Relatives of miners and community members wait near the shaft of a closed mine where illegal miners are inside in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
South Africa’s government won’t help the illegal miners inside a closed mine
South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal mining.
 
Police deploy amid opposition protests in Maputo, Mozambique, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Protesters dispute the outcome of the Oct. 9 elections that saw the ruling Frelimo party extend its 49-year rule. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio)
Why post-election violence in Mozambique is a concern for Southern Africa
Weeks of violent protests have marked the outcome of Mozambique disputed Oct. 9 elections, which saw ruling party Frelimo’s candidate Daniel Chapo declared the winner.
 
South Africa’s soccer president Danny Jordaan arrested on fraud and theft charges
South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan, who helped bring the first-ever FIFA World Cup tournament to Africa in 2010, has been arrested on fraud and theft charges.
 
FILE—Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
The island of Mauritius, praised as an African success story, will hold its national election
The Indian Ocean-island nation of Mauritius will hold a national election this weekend, when Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth seeks to win a second term as leader of a nation often praised as one of Africa’s success stories.
 
Protesters recover from tear gas fired by police in Maputo, Mozambique, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Protesters dispute the outcome of the Oct. 9 elections, which saw the ruling Frelimo party extend its 49-year rule. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio)
South Africa closes its border again with Mozambique, where post-election violence worsens
South Africa has closed its border again with Mozambique, where post-election protests have escalated, leading to clashes between protesters and the police. Authorities also warned South Africans to postpone non-essential visits to Mozambique.
 
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