South Africa uniquely functions with three capitals, a historical compromise to balance power among former colonies. Pretoria serves as the administrative hub, Cape Town houses the legislature, and ...

Torrential rains and severe flooding across parts of southern Africa have killed more than 100 people in three countries, destroyed thousands of homes and caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of ...

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...