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Zimbabwe's top opposition leader said Saturday he will take part in a presidential runoff against longtime leader Robert Mugabe and soon will return to the country. Complete Story...
Southern African leaders discussed Zimbabwe's deepening electoral crisis in a marathon summit that ended before dawn Sunday with a weak declaration that failed to criticize the absent President Robert Mugabe.
President Bush reached out to South African President Thabo Mbeki on Friday as hundreds of guerrilla war veterans in Zimbabwe who support President Robert Mugabe marched through the capital, raising fears Mugabe might turn to violence to prolong his rule.
POLOKWANE, South Africa — As leaders of the ruling African National Congress huddled behind closed doors Monday to resolve tensions at a crucial conference, a senior party spokesman voiced concern at the level of dissent from members.
President Thabo Mbeki pledged in his annual state of the nation address Friday to increase police numbers, improve the private security industry and reduce court backlogs in an effort to reduce crime in South Africa.
More than 80 international scientists and academics condemned South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki released Wednesday.
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa arrived in Zimbabwe on Friday for talks with the country's longtime leader, Robert Mugabe, as fresh evidence emerged that forces sponsored by the government were accelerating their attacks on the opposition.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not contest a run-off election unless certain conditions are met, a spokesman for his party says. Mr Tsvangirai's party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), believes he won last month's election against President Robert M …
Zimbabwe's political situation could come before the United Nations Security Council as early as Wednesday, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in New York.
President Robert Mugabe's decades-old control of Zimbabwe seemed to erode further on Tuesday, as diplomats, analysts and opposition members contended that talks were under way for the 84-year-old leader to step down after trailing in Saturday's election.
The South African Government has budgeted R5-billion in tax incentives over the next three years to promote industrial development, according to president Thabo Mbeki. He announced this in his State of the Nation Address at the opening of Parliament.
President Thabo Mbeki has called for national unity and acknowledged citizen's concerns and fears about their future, in the light of the energy crisis, the criminal justice system and economic worries
South Africans woke to a new era of political turbulence today after the controversial Jacob Zuma seized control of the ruling African National Congress in a bitter power struggle with his rival Thabo Mbeki, the State President.
POLOKWANE, South Africa — The African National Congress chose the Zulu politician Jacob G. Zuma as its new leader on Tuesday, handing South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, a resounding defeat.
IN THEORY, these are hopeful times in South African politics. After 50-odd years of backroom stitch-ups, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) holds a competitive leadership election next week.
"Poverty has increased both in absolute numbers and proportionally," SAIRR said in a statement, blaming the rise on unemployment and HIV/Aids. Despite good economic growth in recent years, unemployment has remained consistently high at about 26%.
Mr Gevisser recounts how Mr Mbeki phoned him late on a Saturday evening in June to discuss Aids.
A sad indictment on the abysmal record of the post-apartheid government of South Africa.
South African companies are cashing in on Zimbabwe s economic turmoil boosting investments and expanding their operations despite deepening hardships a human rights group said on Tuesday.
Jacob Zuma is nosing ahead of Thabo Mbeki in the race to secure the ANC's top job, according to the views of black South Africans captured in an Independent Newspapers/Markinor survey.
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Saturday defended his deal with President Robert Mugabe's government over constitutional reforms, saying it would help create a conducive environment for elections next year.
South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday he was "devastated" by the human rights abuses of President Robert Mugabe s government in Zimbabwe where the economy has virtually collapsed.
The South African government is facing renewed criticism of its handling of the country's AIDS epidemic. Local activists are accusing President Thabo Mbeki of promoting untested traditional African medicines instead of the drugs which are proven to combat HIV.
The ruling African National Congress denied on Monday that President Thabo Mbeki had asked, and failed, to get the support of the party s leadership for a third term as ANC president.
A year before he became president, Thabo Mbeki told parliament in 1998 that South Africa faced the challenge of "allowing a thousand flowers to bloom".
Leaders in southern Africa who just wrapped up a summit in Zambia were divided over how to help Zimbabwe out of its economic crisis an African analyst close to the discussions said on Monday.
President Thabo Mbeki's spokesman dismissed explosive allegations against South Africa's minister of health as unworthy of investigation.
The economy of Zimbabwe is facing total collapse within four months, leaving the country facing a slide into Congo-style anarchy, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.
Southern African leaders failed on Friday to heed calls for strong action against the embattled Zimbabwean government saying the ailing country s problems are "exaggerated". "We ... feel that the problems in Zimbabwe have been exaggerated.
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has lashed out angrily at international condemnation of his handling of the country's crippling HIV/Aids epidemic, and specifically, the sacking last week of his deputy health minister.
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