The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomed the resignation as “long overdue.”

Although Mr. Ramaphosa is a relatively acceptable leader of the A.N.C. in the eyes of some opposition parties, his economic stance will put him in tension with the populist left Economic Freedom Fighters and many trade unions.

Despite the fall of apartheid in 1994 and the reconciliatory tone set by the country’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, the demon of racism is very much alive here.

Apartheid-era mental health care facilities were not great. But at least they weren't lethal.

The newspaper carries both local and international church news and has been published in English since 1920.

New scandals call in to question the state of South Africa's democracy 20 years after Mandela.