While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Trump’s executive order cutting aid and offering refugee status to South Africa’s Afrikaner farmers has caused a stir in the African country after passage of a controversial land bill.

Derrick Avenue in Cyrildene buzzed with excitement as the China Town Johannesburg Community celebrated the Lunar New Year, ...

Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South.

The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

Mugabe loses constitution vote; Thatcher to head British Tories; Stalin-Mao sign treaty; Kurdish revolt in Turkey.

For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and ...

Since the introduction of reform and opening-up in 1978, China has modernized and engaged with the outside world without ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades ... However, scientists now have strong genetic evidence that supports an African origin of all Homo sapiens. The model, ...

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...