South Africa

Zuma impeachment rebuffed, but calls for removal intensify

April 12, 2016 By Joe Sims

Events commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the assasination of Chris Hani were held throughout South Africa over the weekend.

Today in history: Birthday of South African liberation fighter Oliver Tambo

October 27, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Oliver Reginald Tambo, anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary, was born on this date in 1917.

South Africa: miners’ killing marked with call for unity

August 19, 2015 By James Tweedie

President Jacob Zuma called on South Africans to remember the 44 people killed at the Marikana platinum mine.

South African Communists reassess country’s national democratic revolution

July 13, 2015 By Mark Waller

The South African Communist Party's Special National Congress took stock of a range of problems besetting South Africa's young democracy.

Today in history: Mozambique achieves independence in 1975

June 25, 2015 By Special to People’s World

The decade 1964-74 marks the wars of independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and islands of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.