A rebellion over the renaming of the historic country town of Graaff-Reinet has exposed deep-rooted fractures in South Africa ...

Founded in 1792, the South African Post Office (SAPO) is the country’s oldest institution, but it is now at serious risk of ...

Fragments of decorated ostrich eggshells. (Texier et al., J. Archaeol. Sci., 2013) Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, ...

South Africa on Monday reburied the remains of 63 Khoisan people, among southern Africa's oldest indigenous communities, some ...

INTERVIEW: Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt, the apostolic nuncio to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, discusses the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known human burial in Africa, dating back 78,000 years. Found in the Panga ya Saidi cave along the Kenyan coast, the remains of a 2.5 to 3-year-old child ...

Minister of Sports, Art and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has revealed that 290 people participated in public consultations six ...

Footwear has long been part of Oregon’s story, from Nike’s roots in Eugene to sandals so old they predate most recorded ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

Project leaders say the names and details gathered will be added to a publicly accessible database designed to help ...

The pontiff’s visit to Africa highlights the growing importance of the African church within global Catholicism and honors ...

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