South Africa

Orania, South Africa: Niklas Kirsten, a former paratrooper in the South African Army, instructs Erik Du Pree on handgun self-defense in the fields outside an ultra-conservative, all-Afrikaner stronghold known as Orania.

While looking to lessen wage disparities, the government has instead enacted legislation that leaves behind a large swath of female workers.

Cape Town is on track to run out of water, and official city communication has been anything but exemplary—a fact that could doom the ruling political party.

Widows of deceased striking miners who were killed during the Marikana massacre walk from the memorial site during the event's fifth anniversary in Marikana on August 16th, 2017.

Residents throw stones during clashes with riot police in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 8th, 2017, following a demonstration over land grabbing, housing, and unemployment in the area.

As poaching pushes the rhino toward extinction, South Africa considers a radical solution: Legalize the very thing that is killing them. It'd make some people very rich. But would it doom the species?

Students are pushing their schools to divest from fossil-fuel companies. Administrations are pushing back. History tells us who will win.

If #CeciltheLion got you mad about big cat trophies, wait until you hear what they’re doing with the bones.

A fraction of one percent of FIFA's total profit from the tournament.

South Africa debates legalization of the rhino-horn trade to stem smuggling.

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

When Nelson Mandela formed a National Unity government to rule the debut of a post-apartheid South Africa, he demonstrated both his magnanimity and his tactical sense, according to his late friend and chief of staff Jakes Gerwel.

Noah Davis talks to the democratic pollster and political strategist about the over-reliance on numbers, understanding new places, and being really intelligent.