A half century ago, police officers massacred 69 black South Africans in the township of Sharpeville, where protesters had burned the passbooks that the white-led apartheid government required them to carry at all times. But survivors of the massacre here are tired of telling their stories ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Friday defended his finance minister from attacks from the ruling party's youth wing and called for action to be taken against ANC members who continue to argue publicly. His comments, in a letter published on the party's website, are the strongest yet following public spats between members of the ...

A court convicted the governing party's youth leader of hate speech Monday after he said the woman who once accused South Africa's president of rape had had a "nice time" because she stayed the night and asked for taxi money. A gender justice ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court found the firebrand leader of the ruling ANC's youth wing guilty of hate speech on Monday and fined him for suggesting a woman who accused President Jacob Zuma of rape had enjoyed the sexual encounter, local media reported. Youth league leader Julius Malema -- who has been lobbying for South Africa's mines to ...