(Johannesburg) – Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025.

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

As the global community watches, South Africa has reaffirmed its role as a beacon of justice and a voice for the voiceless.

Human rights groups welcomed it, but said that the government needed to publicly recognise attacks on foreigners as xenophobic. In a statement published in October 2018, South Africa's main ...

It is the first time since South Africa became a democracy in 1994 that a president had stripped away the most basic freedoms ... under US sanctions for its human rights record.

We were all excited in the early years of our post-apartheid South Africa when our new democratic dispensation saw the ...

At least 78 bodies were recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, highlighting a severe crackdown on miners. Authorities, defending the operation, face criticism over alleged negligence and ...

CSA must take a stronger stance by refusing to play against Afghanistan and standing up for women’s rights in the face of the ...