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The 2025 African Bank Soweto Marathon, fondly known as the “People’s Race,” proved once again why Soweto is one of South Africa’s most iconic sporting and cultural destinations. The event drew an ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

Congratulatory messages have poured in for the thousands of athletes who took on the 2025 African Bank Soweto Marathon, affectionately known as The People’s Race. From elite runners to first-timers, ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Three people, including a one-year-old child, died when a two-story building collapsed in South Africa's ...

Police in Gauteng have urged communities not to resort to vigilante action after a mob attack in Diepkloof Zone 5, Soweto, left a 19-year-old man dead and three others injured, reports EWN. The four ...

Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.

Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young males that is practiced by various ethnic groups in Africa ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

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