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South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS. Complete Story...
The South African government plans to overhaul the way South African cities are governed and funded in the wake of a series of violent protests, officials said Tuesday.
South Africa's intelligence minister says a former underground intelligence agent and close ally of President Jacob Zuma will head the country's Secret Services agency.
In a bid to end feuding between Zimbabwe's coalition partners, South African President Jacob Zuma met with President Robert Mugabe and other leaders Friday and appeared cautiously optimistic that their differences could be resolved.
South African President Jacob Zuma will be "more vocal" than his predecessor about bringing Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party to task for harassing rival politicians, a South African official said Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Monday for Congolese youth to lead nationwide protests against massive corruption and rampant sexual violence in the country's violence-torn east.
South African President Jacob Zuma won damages Thursday from Britain's The Guardian newspaper over an article that mistakenly claimed he was a rapist.
President Jacob Zuma invoked the legacy of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Wednesday as he urged South Africans to pull together in a time of national and global uncertainty.
President Jacob Zuma moved South Africa's respected finance minister to a new and powerful central planning post, and made other Cabinet appointments Sunday that underlined a drive to make government more responsive and effective.
Jacob Zuma took power Saturday in the culmination of an extraordinary political comeback, pledging to Nelson Mandela and the nation to renew the spirit of commitment and hope of South Africa's first black presidency.
The leader of South Africa's long-dominant ANC was treated like a president-elect Saturday after his party swept parliamentary elections — though not with the two-thirds majority it won easily in the last vote.
Jacob Zuma, the man slated to become South Africa's next leader, declared himself vindicated Tuesday after prosecutors formally withdrew corruption charges just two weeks before the national election.
A businessman convicted in a corruption scandal involving presidential front-runner Jacob Zuma was granted parole on medical grounds Tuesday. Outraged opposition parties accused the ruling African National Congress of improper influence.
At the city's main train station Friday, there was no denying presidential candidate Jacob Zuma can electrify a crowd. Commuters swarmed to snap pictures with cell phones, reach out to touch him and snatch campaign pamphlets from his hand.
Nelson Mandela's surprise appearance at a campaign rally does not mean the 90-year-old former president is coming out of retirement, his office said Friday.
African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma suffered a legal defeat Monday that could force him to divide his time between a corruption trial and a presidential campaign.
EAST LONDON, South Africa — ANC President Jacob Zuma launched his party's parliamentary election campaign on Saturday by promising massive public spending projects, an answer to critics who say the party has done too little for the poorest of the poor.
A judge says South African prosecutors can appeal his decision to dismiss corruption charges against governing party leader Jacob Zuma.
South Africa's new president went on television Sunday seeking to calm the nation after a week of political drama, saying the government is pressing ahead to combat poverty, unemployment and crime.
Affable populist Jacob Zuma could teach other politicians a thing or two about resiliency.
The man likely to be South Africa's next president emerged victorious Friday from a corruption case that dogged him eight years, getting a hero's welcome from supporters hungry for a charismatic leader who understands the pain of poverty.
A South African judge announced Tuesday he will rule Sept. 12 whether to dismiss fraud and corruption charges against the country's strongest presidential candidate, Jacob Zuma.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma withdrew from a charity fundraising banquet honoring former boxer Mike Tyson on Wednesday after being criticized by women's groups in South Africa.
African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma will be the governing party's candidate for national elections, the group declared Tuesday, despite his pending trial on corruption charges.
The new African National Congress leader and would-be national president Jacob Zuma took another wife Saturday — in a Zulu tradition of polygamy that coexists uneasily with calls for gender equality in modern South Africa.
Talks Due on Madagascar StalemateThe South African Development Community "is to hold talks on the political deadlock in Madagascar" on Saturday, June 20.
Jacob Zuma, South Africa's new president, has many promises to keepAFTER the ANC's landslide victory in April's election, Jacob Zuma's election as president was a formality when on Wednesday May 6th parliament officially elected him to the top post.
South Africa's continental footprintJacob Zuma, who will be formally elected president of South Africa by the parliament on Wednesday, is a larger-than-life figure.
ANC Wins South African Elections As expected, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won general elections in South Africa, sweeping party leader Jacob Zuma into power, but came a hair's width from securing the two-thirds majority needed to re-write the country's constitution.
SOUTH AFRICA: POLITICS IN TRANSITION ROYAL AFRICAN SOCIETY at UCL, LONDON DECEMBER 4, 2008 Participants: Moeletsi Mbeki, political economist; deputy chairman, South African Institute of International Affairs;
allAfrica.com: South Africa: Astonishing Silence From Leaders on Global Realities (Page 1 of 2)allister sparks on SA economy and lack of leadership
With the unshackling of Mbeki loyalists, a South African cabinet led by Jacob Zuma is likely to include some political hardliners, steering a course between 'talking left and acting right' so as not to alienate investors.
Is the finest hour for the Left in SA, or the moment of its greatest betrayal? Will the hopes of the poor – in whose name Zuma's supporters forced Mbeki out of office – once again be disappointed?
After the palace coup that overthrew President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's political compass seemed to point only one way, propelling ANC president Jacob Zuma into the nation's top job after a brief interregnum led by Zuma's party deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe.
South African Party Faces Possible SplitLekota says:''It seems that we are serving today divorce papers." Zuma replies:"No one is bigger than the A.N.C., and all A.N.C. members are equal and are governed by the same organizational discipline."
Post-Apartheid South Africa Enters Anxious Era - NYTimes.comA dusty maze of concrete, sheet metal and scrap wood, Diepsloot is like so many of the enormous settlements around Johannesburg, mile after mile of feebly assembled shacks, the impromptu patchwork of the poor, the extremely poor and the hopelessly poor. Skip to next paragraph R …
S. Africa ruling party mulls Mbeki's fateThe fate of South African 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 out of office.
SOUTH AFRICA: Tit-for-tat threat by apartheid generals[Excerpt:] - Apartheid generals have threatened to lay charges against ANC leader Jacob Zuma, President Thabo Mbeki and some of his ministers if the state insists on charging former security chiefs.
Lapsley: South African capital punishment debate 'a tragedy'A respected theologian and human rights activist who joined the ANC in exile in 1976 has expressed disappointment at ANC President Jacob Zuma's willingness to entertain debate on the return of the death penalty.
Church tells Zuma to leave God out of itAfrican National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has been "extremely unwise" to claim divine blessings for the leading political party, church leaders of the Apostolic Faith Mission said in Tuesday.
Zambia calls for emergency talks with Zimbabwe's neighboursZambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who chairs the 14-nation South African Development Community (Sadc), said the entire region needed to work together to find a solution. The meeting is due to start on Saturday.
Africa: SA moves to scrap Scorpions unitSouth Africa's security minister has tabled a proposal in parliament calling for the FBI-style Scorpions special investigations unit to be disbanded. The Scorpions was set up in 1999 to fight organised crime and corruption and works separately from the police.
Zuma win plunges South Africa into uncertainty - Times OnlineSouth 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.
Zuma Is Chosen to Lead A.N.C. 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.
The ANC leadership election in South Africa: Flawed characters, flawed choiceIN 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.
Raging passions will divide ANC, warns ZumaIt took African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma to calm a rowdy crowd bent on preventing Limpopo premier Sello Moloto - regarded as a Mbeki sympathiser - from speaking at the funeral of former ambassador Norman Mashabane at the stadium in Phalaborwa at the weekend.
Zuma noses ahead in new pollJacob 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.
Cleared of rape and fraud and set to be South Africa's next presidentBald, with dark-tinted glasses, the middle-aged man in the grey suit and open-necked blue shirt moves to the edge of the stage and addresses the large crowd in calm, measured tones.
Cosatu calls for heads of Shaik appeal judges THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for the resignation of the five Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judges who turned down Schabir Shaik's appeal, saying they misrepresented the findings of the trial judge and damaged ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma in …
A Stormy Test for Democracy in South AfricaZuma: Total punk. Mbeki: Corporate tool. Ramaphosa: All-out slimebag. Wither the leaders of yore? And, which way will the COSATU wind blow?
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