Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s a look at the life of former South African President Thabo Mbeki. Was expelled from school as a teenager for organizing a ...

It is also a term that represented a rare occasion of our collective public endorsement, as a form of sincere flattery, of ...

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

Mbeki’s strategic misreading of the global conjuncture, his belief in the imminence of an African renaissance, which is to ...

South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki fires his second in command — a man once tapped as his successor. Deputy President Jacob Zuma's future had looked shaky ever since his financial advisor was ...

Congratulations on your article "South Africa's Lonely Rebel" (World Affairs, March 4). It is time that African leaders were exposed for who they really are. Thabo Mbeki spends too much time chasing a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jacob Zuma was Mbeki’s deputy for most of the AIDS denialist era. He headed the South African National AIDS Council. Under ...