apartheid

South Africans celebrate their "Freedom Day" every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of apartheid.

South Africa's first Black president, Nelson Mandela, died on Dec. 5, 2013. Revisit the speeches that made Mandela the most prominent figure of the anti-apartheid movement.

Compelling photos capture the lives of occupiers who say gentrification and a lack of affordable housing in Cape Town have left them no choice but to reclaim space in a city that's squeezing them out.

The archbishop is being remembered around the world for his commitment to equality and justice and his "impish" sense of humor.

De Klerk shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, and ceded the presidency to him in 1994 after Black South Africans were allowed to vote. But he's remained a controversial figure there.

The highly charged reference to South Africa's former policy of white rule has long been a Palestinian critique of Israel's treatment of its Arab citizens and the occupied territories.

South Africa's president made a promise to redistribute white-owned land to blacks. But it's a tense and controversial process.

Twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa — they're still fighting to regain what they lost.

The World Bank looked at economic data from around the globe to see where the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest.