Organisers reflected on Odinga’s enduring faith and his family’s defiance of colonial naming conventions during his baptism — ...

Discover the poignant reality behind South Africa's travel trends, where funerals account for a significant portion of ...

Supporters of a deceased Zambian president have appropriated “Three Lions” in their campaign to bring his body home.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Africa’s Minister of Health Aaron ...

1954-1957 – Teaches school. He resigns in protest of government restrictions on education for black children. 1961 – Is ordained an Anglican priest. 1975 – Becomes the first black appointed Anglican ...

South African civil rights icon Desmond Tutu has died at age 90, according to the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation confirming the news on Dec. 26. "Tutu was a living embodiment of faith in ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— "September '77, Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual, in police room 619," go the opening lines of singer Peter Gabriel's famous anti-apartheid anthem from ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying "the time has come to slow down" and spend more ...

The 40-year arc of US relations with South Africa goes something like this: In 1984, President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that Desmond Tutu was “naive” for pressuring him — unsuccessfully — to ...

The combination of the Trump administration granting expedited refugee status to white South Africans and the Episcopal Church ending a 40-year partnership with the federal government rather than help ...

South Africa's Desmond Tutu could be discharged "early next week" after he was hospitalised with an infection, his family said Friday. The 88-year retired archbishop was hospitalised in Cape Town on ...