Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 14 Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer dies at 90 By Margaret Myers Nadine Gordimer, a South African Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote about the oppression in her country during the apartheid era, has died at the age of 90. Continue reading
May 18 Kruger Park reports first case of elephant poaching in 10 years By News Desk Officials at South Africa's Kruger National Park have reported the first case of elephant poaching in the park in over a decade. The male elephant's corpse, stripped of its tusks, was found near the border with Mozambique. Continue reading
May 18 Watch Can cross-border cooperation save the endangered rhino? By PBS News Hour Only about 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild today -- 73 percent of those wild rhinos are in South Africa -- and most of those live in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Authorities are desperately trying to combat a dramatic… Continue watching
May 17 International ad campaigns aim to reduce rhino horn demand By Connie Kargbo While park rangers are fighting the battle with poachers on the ground in South Africa, over the past few years ad campaigns by conservation groups have also been hitting airwaves and websites in consumer countries to discourage the consumption of… Continue reading
May 07 Adventurers arrive in the U.S. after 100-day journey across the Atlantic By Lorna Baldwin A South African duo have become the first people to row from Africa to the U.S. across the Atlantic Ocean, all without a support team. Riaan Manser, a professional adventurer, and his partner Vasti Geldenhuys arrived in Miami, Florida, around… Continue reading
May 07 South Africans head to election polls, 20 years after end of apartheid By Anya van Wagtendonk South Africans take to the polls Wednesday for national elections, 20 years after Nelson Mandela’s historic election as president marked the end of apartheid. Mandela’s party, the African National Congress, has been in power ever since, and analysts are predicting… Continue reading
Apr 20 Remembering 'the day Nelson Mandela became Nelson Mandela' By Kristin Miller Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's statement to the South African Supreme Court at his trial on charges of sabotage. Like other famous speeches it now has a shorthand reference -- it's the "an ideal for which I… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch News Wrap: Flight 370 search follows promising pings By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, there were cautious hopes of finding the missing Flight 370 aircraft when a ship picked up pings during its trawl of the southern Indian Ocean. Also, Oscar Pistorius took the stand to testify in his… Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch South African opera singers' lives documented in new film By PBS News Hour Some of the world’s best young opera singers hail from the impoverished black townships of South Africa. Three of those singers are now in the United States to perform at the American Documentary Film Festival, where a documentary about their… Continue watching