JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It’s autumn in South Africa, where election season is in full swing and the streets are plastered with campaign posters ... is a vibrant democracy with a free ...

And there have been efforts in recent years to subvert democracy and elections further afield in bigger countries, he said. “There’s actually not much to see here (in South Africa) other than ...

Seventeen years into the new democracy of South Africa, the formal freedom heralded by the defeat of apartheid is yet to be matched by economic liberation for millions of poor, particularly black ...

South Africa’s tortuous path to nationhood, democracy, and hope is also a luminous lesson for African countries which continue to tether on the brink of disaster, lurching from one avoidable ...

South Africa’s democratic promises of dignity ... Today, we face an “undignified democracy” — one that lectures its citizens on forbearance while its own machinery betrays them.

One by one the pillars of democracy are toppling into the dust in unhappy South Africa. Last month the Nationalist government packed the High Court (TIME, May 9); last week it undertook to pack ...

When it comes to the political opinion each of us holds dear, most of us treat it as we do our religious convictions.

A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a placard, while taking part in a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, in Cape Town, South Africa ...

South Africa’s tortuous path to nationhood, democracy, and hope is also a luminous lesson for African countries which continue to tether on the brink of disaster, lurching from one avoidable ...