How legends of the American music industry made millions off the work of Solomon Linda, a Zulu tribesman who wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and died a pauper.

The corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa, the world’s most unequal country.

It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”

When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.

The militarization of local politics in South Africa.

A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.

How Mandela’s political heirs grow rich off corruption.

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

The annual tradition in the grape-growing country of South Africa’s Western Cape was that locals could gather fruit before it rotted on the vine. But this season produced a body amongst the rows.

Inside a movement.

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

A trip to the South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race.

On being South Africa’s “public protector,” charged with watching over the people who once liberated it.

Barack Obama on Africa, Putin and the gap between what CEOs tell him over lunch and what they tell their lobbyists.

“I come to America, I go to England, I go to France…nobody’s at risk. They’re afraid of getting cancer, losing a lover, losing their jobs, being insecure. … It’s only in my own country that I find people who voluntarily choose to put everything at risk—in their personal life.”

Adriaan Vlok, a former apartheid leader, seeks redemption.

Why the integration of a South African university didn’t last.

The fight for South Africa’s future.

In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

Mattathias Rath made a fortune selling cure-all vitamins in Europe before moving his business to South Africa, where he launched a massive campaign against retroviral AIDS medications and in favor of his own vitamin cocktails. When scientists, AIDS non-profits, and even Medecins San Frontieres objected, he sued.

After a racial hazing incident, the first black head of South Africa’s University of Free State confronts the myths of the reconciliation era.

It is agreed that the 1977 political murder of a couple in Johannesburg was a political killing that covered up mysterious Swiss Bank deposits. Various reports implicate Cuban Nationalists, Italian Fascists and the CIA.