Pope Francis greets cardinals as he unexpectedly appears during the Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 13, 2025. South Africans are pouring out their heartfelt condolences ...

Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the Catholic world, and observers say Pope Francis did a lot to raise the profile ...

The EFF said the shooting is a ‘threat to national security’, while the SACP said it was an ‘attack on the country’s ...

The remark, particularly the phrase “I don’t know what that is,” referring to Congo—a nation of over 100 million people and ...

The Democratic Alliance and Patriotic Alliance’s recent whitewashing of Israel’s crimes during their so-called “fact-finding ...

For this year’s Mail & Guardian God Edition, we asked a number of the country’s prominent politicians what role faith plays ...

By all accounts, South Africa’s conundrum that is the Government of National Unity (GNU) will likely fester into a ...

For Mandela, forgetting the past is the prerequisite for the embracement of democratic triumph over the horrors of apartheid.

A top official in one of South Africa's biggest political parties has been condemned for visiting a self-proclaimed pastor who fled to Malawi after he was accused of rape and fraud. Floyd Shivambu, ...

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba's Easter sermon warns that political grandstanding within the Government of National Unity threatens to undermine South Africa's democratic integrity and calls for respect ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned the party of former President Joseph Kabila, accusing him of links to the M23 ...