Jacob Zuma

Wednesday’s protests in the major cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria drew thousands of largely middle class South Africans. They called for Zuma to resign or be “recalled” by his party, the African National Congress, which was returned to power in 2014

South African soccer star Senzo Meyiwa was known for his incredible skills in goal, recently earning the starting spot on his country’s national team. But he died on Sunday during a robbery at his girlfriend’s house, stunning South Africans and bringing even more attention to gun violence there.

South Africa has the largest number of HIV-infected people on the planet, but the country is taking aggressive new steps to fight AIDS.

A look at South Africa in the post-apartheid era, where the gap between rich and poor has not closed — it has whitened.

Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Carol Hills about an incident that’s showing up in a lot of South African political cartoons.