Peter Granitz

South African wildfires — some caused by human error — in the verdant wine region have seriously damaged one of the country's oldest vineyards.

Euthanasia is illegal in South Africa, but the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has spoken out recently in support of the option to choose. He has long lived with prostate cancer.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress is fracturing over questions regarding President Jacob Zuma's leadership, and fraud charges the state has made against his finance minister.

Violent protests have shut down most South African universities in recent weeks as students nationwide protest high tuition fees. They pledge to continue the violence until tuition fees are scrapped.

A recent accident in a gold mine in South Africa has brought attention to the growing practice of illegal mining. The legal mining operations have been on a decades-long decline but illegal miners are thriving.

The African National Congress, long South Africa's ruling party, seems to be losing some of its grip on the nation. And there's a new political star rising on the national stage.

South Africa may lift a ban on the domestic trade of rhino horn. Rhino farmers say the moratorium hasn't stopped poaching, while critics say ending the ban amounts to an OK of illegal smuggling.

A Baptist preacher has become the unlikely leader of a social media movement that's inspired Zimbabweans to protest against their authoritarian ruler and the collapsed economy.

South African journalists are in an uproar over a directive at the public broadcaster that bans coverage of protests. They accuse the government of effectively censoring them ahead of local elections.

South Africa has been a de facto one-party state since the end of apartheid in 1994. But the ruling African National Congress is losing support among South Africa's youth.

A high court in South Africa ruled against President Jacob Zuma, saying he needs to repay the government for millions in state funds he used to upgrade his rural home. Among the accusations, the court didn't buy his argument that the swimming pool was a security measure to provide a reservoir in case of fire.

Dominican forces are expelling Haitians everyday, part of an ongoing plan to deport people without papers who have been living on the wrong side of the border for years.

Refugee camps are appearing along Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic as people flee the DR to comply with new immigration laws. It's unclear how the Haitian government will manage the crisis.

Thousands of residents of the Dominican Republic — many of Haitian descent — have been stripped of citizenship. Facing deportation, they've moved into camps. Now they're living in limbo.

Haitian President Michel Martelly claims his country has accepted 14,000 people from the Dominican Republic. But the Dominican government claims official deportations won't begin until August.

The Dominican government hasn't said how many deportees will be sent to Haiti. An international migration group is working with the Haitian government to facilitate the influx.

Cholera has been spreading in Haiti for over four years. But this year looks especially bleak. In the first four months, there were nearly four times the number of cases as in the same period in 2014.

More than a dozen people died during Haiti's celebration of Carnival when a float in the capital, Port au Prince, came in contact with a power line.