Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died. She was 87 and suffered a stroke. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher looks back at her life.

As iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela is recovering from surgery in the hospital, his ANC party is undergoing a battle over the future leadership of the country. It has been twenty years since Mandela made history, and many are wondering w...

Industrial action is spreading in South Africa, with nationwide protests and labor strikes showing no sign of ending soon. Production in the mining sector has already been affected as a result of the widespread protests, and demonstrations have ...

As striking miners roil South Africa, another unrest is also brewing as more than 40 schools in Northern Cape province have been closed. They've been shut by violent protests over what's being described as the government's slow delivery of basic ...

Could growing frustration in South Africa over the country's economic disparities have major repercussions for the ruling ANC? As unrest and strikes spread, Shiulie Ghosh speaks to guests Anthea Jeffery, Adam Habib, and Tony Dykes.

Dozens of detained South African miners were freed Monday after murder charges against them were dropped. South African authorities had been using a law last used during the apartheid era to bring murder charges against the miners. They were ...

A South African miner arrested for an alleged murder claims he was abused and tortured by police. Complaints of police brutality are surfacing in relation to the shooting of 34 miners at the Marikana mine in August. South African authorities are u...

South African authorities have used a law last used in the apartheid era to bring murder charges against 270 miners involved in unrest at the Marikana mine earlier this month. The 270 workers would be tried under the "common purpose" doctrine bec...

Striking mine workers have rallied in South Africa, where police shot and killed 34 of their colleagues three days ago. Officers say they acted in self defense. But others say it was a massacre of the kind not seen since the end of Apartheid ...

Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is being touted as the new joint UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria, diplomats said late Thursday. Brahimi would replace Kofi Annan, who announced his resignation citing lack of international support. ...