South Africa's economy has shown more than once that a steep rise in GDP does not result in a comparable decrease in poverty. This is particularly evident in data from 2006 and 2011 as shown in a ...

HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa (Reuters) - American talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday opened a $40 million school for disadvantaged South African girls which she has paid for out of her own ...

The boys, aged 12 to 16, were found abandoned and in poor condition, with no adult supervision at the illegal school. Traditional leaders say the boys were not kidnapped and are receiving care.

Revolutions are seeded not just in hunger, but in the fear of decline, particularly among those who thought they had escaped ...

KIRKWOOD, South Africa -- Before the rail-borne clinic finally came to the Sunday's River Valley, June Spogter was practically blind and had been for the better half of his 83 years.

In the short term, it recommends focusing on improving early-grade learning in the poorest schools with the lowest performance, supported by a revived assessment system to identify struggling schools.

GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa (AP) — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the ...

Rural schools in South Africa can produce good exam ... make the journey to school. It’s often difficult. Poor road networks and a lack of easy access to transport make just getting to and ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Thursday to revive South Africa's flagging economy and extend prosperity to the many left out of it, by resuscitating factories and farms, building roads and ...

For other magnet countries in the global south facing great flows of migrants fleeing war, poverty and the degradation of their land by climate change, South Africa is a potent cautionary tale.