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 ...

Lobbying within the ANC is intensifying ahead of the party's national general council in December, where potential contenders for the 2027 leadership race are expected to begin testing their support.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Thabo Mbeki was a President for South Africa with 33 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1994 Broadcast as an Executive Deputy President for South ...

South Africa, following its peaceful transition, occupied the moral high ground and could influence the agenda of intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations. Not anymore. South Africa’s ruling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following Jacob Zuma’s tenure, during which corruption became endemic, tarnishing the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa was touted as the party’s saviour. But he failed to impress. South Africa’s ANC party has ...