South Africa: Government Takes Lead in Tackling HIV-AIDS Crisis

The South African government has moved to end the years-long controversy over its policies on HIV and AIDS by unveiling the outline of a four-year national strategic plan to cut… Read more »

South Africa: More Action Needed by Business on Poverty

Futhi Mtoba, Chairman of Deloitte Southern Africa, provides a look at where the corporate responsibility movement stands in South Africa, particularly as it relates to poverty… Read more »

South Africa: Rough Guide to the Music of South Africa

Rough Guide to the Music of South Africa (2nd Edition) Read more »

South Africa: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa

We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 Read more »

Southern Africa: Catch a Fire: New Film on 1980s Apartheid South Africa

Catch a Fire Read more »

South Africa: Women's Empowerment May Take Two

This week, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan released two long-awaited reports on human rights issues affecting billions of people worldwide: the Study on Violence Against Women and… Read more »

South Africa: The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club

The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club Read more »

South Africa: Born Free

An unmarked ambulance—with a black A—has been patrolling during the past two nights. People wanted to know whose it was. None of the agencies said it had an ambulance… Read more »

South Africa: Hugh Masekela Serenades Sister's Party Guests at Freedom Day Celebrations

Trumpeter Hugh Masekela surprised several hundred guests in Washington DC at a 12th anniversary celebration of South Africa's first post-apartheid government. The virtuoso musician… Read more »

South Africa: Oh, Boys! Oh, Boys!

South African soccer is in disgrace - and now the country's president, Thabo Mbeki, has compounded the indignities heaped upon the heads of players and administrators in recent… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Trumpets 'Age of Hope,' Outlines Steps to End Poverty

President Thabo Mbeki has proclaimed an "Age of Hope" in South Africa, in which economic growth is unparalleled and optimism high. At the same time he acknowledged serious problems… Read more »

Africa: Anglican Church Announces Plans to Combat Poverty, Climate Change

International representatives of the Anglican Church meeting in South Africa today launched a global initiative to bring church members around the world together to fight poverty… Read more »

South Africa: Innovative HIV/Aids Program Targets South African Teachers

Four South African teachers' unions have joined with U.S. and South African partners to save teachers' lives through an innovative program combining peer education, HIV testing and… Read more »

South Africa: De Beers Workers Rush for HIV Testing, Treatment

Global diamond giant De Beers, which is 45 percent owned by Anglo American Plc, was honored Wednesday night for its workplace programs on HIV/Aids. Jonathan Oppenheimer, De Beers's… Read more »

Africa: At Least 9 Africans Missing, 8 Injured in London Attacks

Updated: July 14, 2005 9:34 AM Read more »

Africa: Bush Meeting with Five Presidents Meant to Emphasize Democracy Not Deliver Results

Five African presidents met at the White House on June 13 with President George Bush to talk on issues relating to democracy and economic development. Taking part were John Kufuor… Read more »

South Africa: President Mbeki Relieves Deputy President Zuma of Post

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has relieved the country's deputy president, Jacob Zuma, of his post. Read more »

South Africa: Corruption Trial Pressures Mbeki, Facing G8 Summit, to Fire Deputy

South Africa's most important corruption trial since liberation has ended in a 15-year prison sentence for Schabir Shaik, financial adviser to the country's deputy president, Jacob… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Presses G8 to Fund Africa Action Plan

With African issues high on the agenda of the summit of the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations next month, President Thabo Mbeki of South African appealed to… Read more »

South Africa: Straddling Two Worlds - An Israeli Journalist Writes about his South African Childhood

Hirsh Goodman grew up in South Africa and as a young adult emigrated to Israel. His new memoir is called Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience… Read more »

Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'

As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »

Southern Africa: Media's Role in Democracy Analyzed in New Book

Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu Ogundimu, eds. Media and Democracy in Africa. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. 260 pp. $39.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. … Read more »

South Africa: Aids Underlies Sharp Rise in South Africa's Death Rate

New South African government statistics show that the number of reported deaths rose by a dramatic 57 percent between 1997 and 2002, mostly as a consequence of tuberculosis,… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Criticizes Debilitating Costs of Telecommunications

Hopes for cheaper telecommunications for South Africa have been raised by President Thabo Mbeki, who declared in his State of the Nation address that it was “unacceptable” that… Read more »

South Africa: Domestic Progress and Promise Highlighted in Mbeki's Address to the Nation

In his “State of the Nation” address to the South African Parliament, President Thabo Mbeki has painted a picture of a country which “has never in its entire history enjoyed such a… Read more »