Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of ...

It did not happen in Madras till 1947. Mysore achieved it by administrative fiat as early as 1908-1909,” said historian ...

India’s current water consumption stands at 1,385 m3 per capita, a third of the global average and below that of low-income countries. Many parts of India are water starved. We need to act to conserve ...

CAPE TOWN - President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged the slow pace of land reform and wants the process to be hastened. Ramphosa told MPs that South Africa remains a highly unequal country ...

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is urgently addressing the disruption experienced in service delivery at the South Gauteng Deeds Registry, with transitional measures ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

Corruption, land reform failures, and sky-rocketing electricity prices are worsening South Africa’s hunger crisis, with one in five households now facing severe food insecurity. Activists who ...

Chris O’Connell, policy adviser with Irish charity Trocaire (Brian Lawless/PA) “There was the original conquest, or what they would call the Spanish invasion; there was the land reforms of the 19th ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged on Friday to help Africa accelerate its economic development as Beijing looks to strengthen ties at a time when the United States is cutting off aid to the ...

Weakening the professional civil service could turn back the clock to an era when government was rife with corruption.