The local media and intellectual class have lately been perplexed by the hard-to-explain phenomenon of our society’s intense ...

The failure of South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki to be reelected leader of the African National Congress is a dramatic indicator of how far the ruling party’s leadership has strayed from its ...

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Since 1994, South Africa has seen itself as a land of peace – peace with itself, after sworn enemies sat down and agreed on the terms of coexistence once apartheid ended. Ever since, the country has ...

South Africa's former President, Thabo Mbeki's speech poem of, "I am an African." ...

It is also a term that represented a rare occasion of our collective public endorsement, as a form of sincere flattery, of this rare quality in Thabo Mbeki, which clearly set him apart, in a positive ...

South African residents watch president Thabo Mbeki announcing his resignations on a live television address to the nation.GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP / Getty In a subdued television address on Sunday ...

(Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC said on Saturday it had decided to recall President Thabo Mbeki before the end of his term next year. Here are some key facts about him: * The son of one of an ...

Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive old fears. By ...