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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday South Africa could overcome in a "relatively short period" a power supply crisis that has hurt the mining industry and raised concern among ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past has publicly questioned the connection between HIV and AIDS, minimized the seriousness of the AIDS epidemic and did not support widespread treatment or testing for AIDS. Mbeki’s father was ...