South Africa

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February 1, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's president has visited Nelson Mandela at his home in Johannesburg, the latest in a steady…
January 31, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Doctors discharged the Nobel peace laureate from the hospital Friday, and he is continuing to receive care…
January 28, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela went home from the hospital Friday after suffering an acute respiratory…
January 27, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Mandela undergoes regular hospital checkups, but his latest visit starting Wednesday stretched into an unusually long stay...
December 21, 2010
OPINION - The costs of these drugs and treatments tend to be prohibitive, making them inaccessible to most...
December 14, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's health minister says he has brought down the cost of HIV drugs by 53 percent...
November 30, 2010
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Under the pilot program UNICEF launched last month in Kenya, expectant mothers with HIV are being…
November 19, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The nation of almost 50 million has more people than any other country with the virus that…
October 28, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Even though Caster Semenya can run in major track meets now, she's wondering if she can afford…
October 22, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - His archives preserve music that has largely disappeared from the continent because of colonialism and the influence…
October 21, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The refurbished Vele High School in South Africa's Limpopo province will feature 16 classrooms and accommodate some…
September 9, 2010
Mandela's book already boasts a foreword by Barack Obama, which may make an Oprah endorsement seem like just so much…
September 1, 2010
ROME (AP) - Semenya finished a distant ninth in the 800 meters at the Palio della Quercia in Rovereto on…
August 4, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - An alliance of South African newspapers and broadcasters has praised Nelson Mandela for his role in the…
July 29, 2010
VIDEO - The new documentary "Promised Land" follows problematic legal confrontations in South Africa over the control of farmlands...
July 22, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Police say Nelson Mandela's grandchildren underwent a harrowing ordeal with gunmen following the South African icon's 92nd…
July 22, 2010
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, then used his new international stature…
July 20, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa, a nation of about 50 million, has an estimated 5.7 million people infected with HIV,…
July 19, 2010
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - A South African community once riven by anti-foreigner violence came together Sunday in the spirit…
July 18, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Mandela turns 92 on July 18th. Morgan Freeman, Maya Angelou and more share their memories of the…