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• South Africa Announces Treatment Plans for HIV-Positive Babies, Moms

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 709
  South African President Jacob “Bring Me My Machine Gun” Zuma has become an unlikely supporter of HIV care in his country, announcing Tuesday—World AIDS Day—new, expanded health care measures to be implemented for HIV-positive mothers and their babies.  —KA AP via Google News: Zuma compared the fight ...
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• South Africas Jacob Zuma promises to take HIV test in Aids policy reversal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Speech declaring huge expansion of treatment marks final break with stance of predecessor Thabo Mbeki South Africas president, Jacob Zuma, today pledged to undergo an HIV test in an attempt to draw a line under an era of political inertia blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths. In a speech on World Aids Day, ...
  17 hours ago

• New Beginning in South Africa’s AIDS battle

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 590
  South Africa has the largest number of HIV-infected people on the planet. In a widely welcomed speech to mark World Aids Day, South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, pledged a new beginning. The World’s Jason Margolis has that story in today’s show. (Audio available after 5PM Eastern) BBC coverage ...
  18 hours ago

• ANC-Cosatu rift widens

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 542
  Just when South Africans thought that rifts within the alliance were a thing of the past post-Zuma versus Mbeki, along comes the next big one. This time it is Cosatu taking on what it considers to be the anti-left elements within the ANC.If regard is had to the Reuters article (click on link) [...]
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• Eleanor Kasrils obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  An anti-apartheid activist, she fled South Africa in disguise Eleanor Kasrils, who has died aged 73, was a leading figure in the anti-apartheid struggle. Married for 45 years to Ronnie Kasrils, South Africas former minister of intelligence, Eleanor shared his life on the run from the security forces and in exile in ...
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• Sandile Memela Cuts Loose on the Black Stars of SA Lit

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 481
  Controversial Department of Arts and Culture mandarin Sandile Memela has produced a scathing attack on South Africa’s black writers, accusing the likes of Zakes Mda, Moeletsi Mbeki, William Gumede, Jacob Dlamini and others of pandering to white interests and holding back South Africa’s development into a truly ...
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• Is Robert Mugabe toying with Jacob Zuma’s ego?

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  SOUTH Africa has a very strong vested interest in a stable Zimbabwe. The pressure on our state resources is massive as a result of instability to the north.How will that pressure be relieved? Jacob Zuma seems to think that the “political solution” offered by a unity government led by Robert Mugabe with Morgan ...
  2 days ago

• Black writers, white readers

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 542
  The last ten years have been marked by a strange phenomenon in black writing: a visible and negative literary portrayal of the black experience and critical assault on black identity and achievement.This is quite ironic.But black writers have, unwittingly, become enemies of everything that their people fought ...
  2 days ago

• An open letter to the minister of stealth, I mean health

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 542
  On the eve of World Aids Day I write to you about the unfulfilled promises for which we can’t possibly only blame you …Dear Bra Aaron, One of the most appealing things about your appointment as minister is your general approachability — hence I know that this letter to you from citizen nobody will surely be ...
  4 days ago

• SA, Evolving: Big Feature in The Nation by Andrew Rice

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 481
  Alert! The latest edition of the magazine of record for the US left, The Nation , features a long “after Mandela” piece by journo Andrew Rice, who incorporates three recent books that canvas South Africa’s evolving landscape in his analysis. Well worth the read: Nelson Mandela Square can be found in the ...
  5 days ago

• Zuma quietly shafts Mbeki from Zimbabwe mediation role

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 125
  For those of you who didn’t read the fine print this morning, President Thabo Mbeki has been quietly shafted once more by President Jacob Zuma, this time as mediator in the Zimabwean peace process.Mbeki was mediator while president and this continued afterwards. But yesterday it came to a dramatic end with an ...
  5 days ago

• Mbeki not a candidate for genocide charges

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 542
  My regulars know that I’m a fan of former president Thabo Mbeki and as such I thought it best that I give the rest of you the heads-up before starting this discussion. Of course that does not mean I am unaware of his faults, the worst of which was his administration’s approach to the question [...]
  1 week ago

• Introduction: The Politics of Jacob Zuma

  
  concernedafricascholars.org — Authority: 118
  Jacob Zuma, the President of Africa’s most powerful democracy since April 2009, and the recently chosen ‘African President of the Year’ (Sapa 2009), arouses strong passions from his supporters and detractors. A longtime ANC official from a humble peasant background in what is now Kwazulu-Natal province, Zuma ...
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• Introduction: The Politics of Jacob Zuma

  
  concernedafricascholars.org — Authority: 118
  Jacob Zuma, the President of Africa’s most powerful democracy since April 2009, and the recently chosen ‘African President of the Year’ (Sapa 2009), arouses strong passions from his supporters and detractors. A longtime ANC official from a humble peasant background in what is now Kwazulu-Natal province, Zuma ...
  1 week ago

• Malema, Mbeki, smoke and mirrors

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 542
  Julius Malema has come out against the Young Communist League and vowed to do his utmost to defend former president Mbeki against any legal action over his HIV-Aids utterances. And in other news, a herd of pigs were seen executing formations in the air above the Union Buildings while over in the Middle East ...
  2 weeks ago

• War of words over Mbeki

  
  Times LIVE Multimedia — Authority: 146
  ANC Youth League President Julius Malema last night defended former President Thabo Mbeki handling of the HIV and Aids epidemic and said plans to have him charged for genocide will never happen. Malema was responding to a call made by the Young Communist League National Secretary Buti Manamela that Mbeki should be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Malema’s surprise support for Mbeki

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 125
  CHALK this one down in the “unexpected” column: ANC Youth League leader, Julius Malema has come out fighting for former President Thabo Mbeki, saying he should not be prosecuted for his role in Aids deaths.Perhaps he and Mbeki’s successor, Jacob Zuma, are all too aware of the precedent that would set: Government ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Book from Allister Sparks: First Drafts: South African History in the Making

  
  Jonathan Ball — Authority: 464
  It was Philip Graham , legendary publisher of The Washington Post in the 1960s, who coined the epigram that the journalist’s role is to write “a first rough draft of history”. It is a concept that has long fascinated veteran journalist Allister Sparks, because it means that a collection of those rough drafts ...
  2 weeks ago

• Manuel will run government planning – ANC allies back down

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  The ANC put its foot down and finally got its left allies in Cosatu and the SACP to agree that Trevor Manuel will run the planning show.They had objected to Manuel, saying he was a member of Thabo Mbeki’s conservative “class project”. They wanted someone more in turne with their thinking to run the planning ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tsvangirai took a terrifying gamble

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 145
  By Mary Ndlovu A SEASON of fear has returned to Zimbabwe and it is unlikely that the patchwork performed on the fraying coalition government will reverse its impact, at least not in the short run. Unlawful arrests, abductions, beatings, torture, burning of homes and yes, killings too, by Zanu-PF and state agents, ...
  2 weeks ago

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