Eroding confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa and unease about his possible successors, including Deputy President Paul ...

There are calls within the ANC to oust Cyril Ramaphosa, disband the NEC, and replace the leadership with a national task team ...

2001-06-27 04:00:00 PDT Johannesburg-- Thabo Mbeki admits he is no Nelson Mandela. He joked shortly before coming to power two years ago that Mandela's shoes were "too ugly" for him to want to fill ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — The fate of President Thabo Mbeki hung in the balance Friday, as the ruling African National Congress’s top decision-making body met to decide if he should be forced ...

Johannesburg — Thabo Mbeki, the South African president ousted by his own party, attempted to exit the world stage with dignity last night when he refrained from attacking his political foes in an ...

Mbeki’s rivalry with Ramaphosa goes back to the early 1990s, when Ramaphosa became chief negotiator for the ANC. File photo of the two leaders (Ramaphosa left) at a ...

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, joined a high-profile group of Africa's leading business and government figures for the second edition of the African Renaissance Retreat, which concluded on ...

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 ...

Kgalema Motlanthe is South Africa's new president. The country's parliament elected Motlanthe's after South African President Thabo Mbeki was forced to step down after he was found to be a part of a ...