South Africa

South Africa Unhappy Elephants

FILE - Charley, an ageing four-ton African elephant, is trained to enter a transport container, on Aug. 9, 2024 at the Pretoria, South Africa's, National Zoological Gardens. (AP Photo, File)

Animals

Animal welfare groups say 3 South African zoo elephants are depressed and sue to move them

MAY 19, 2026

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Initiates return after completing their passage to manhood at a traditional initiation school, in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

culture

Local expertise breaks through culture of silence around deadly initiation rites in South Africa

MARCH 27, 2026

South Africa Farm Killings

Anita de Lange, left, and her son, Hansie de Lange, tidy up at the Witkruis Monument, near Polokwane, South Africa, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mogomotsi Magome)

Farmers

A hillside of white crosses fuels a misleading story about South Africa’s farm killings

JUNE 16, 2025

FILE - South Africa's ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool speaks at the South African Embassy in Washington, Dec. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

FILE - South Africa's ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool speaks at the South African Embassy in Washington, Dec. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

South Africa

Trump administration says South African ambassador has to leave the US by Friday

MARCH 17, 2025

South Africa Dead Miners

Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Human rights

South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground

JAN. 24, 2025

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