Tutu urges open debate on S. Africa's ills
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JOHANNESBURG -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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The global "war on terror" can't be won if people are living in "desperate" conditions, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told CNN.
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More than 80 international   scientists, including a Nobel laureate, have appealed to South   Africa's president to fire his controversial health minister   for what they say are "pseudo-scientific" policies on AIDS.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on the  media on Wednesday to be more careful in their choice of words  when reporting on religious conflict.
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President Thabo Mbeki should publicly clear his name amidst claims that he had allowed deposed Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide to incite violence from South Africa, says the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP).
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THE South African government said yesterday it took &quot;strong exception&quot; to comments by Haitian interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue that President Thabo Mbeki&#39;s granting of refuge to Jean-Bertrand Aristide allowed the ousted leader to sow discontent in
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South Africa's veteran Zulu leader Mangosutho Buthelezi, who has lost two children to AIDS, says the pandemic-blighted continent should stop sweeping the disease under the carpet.
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LUSAKA: Africa must move away from conflicts and begin to pool its resources to develop the impoverished continent and reduce poverty, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday.
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Former Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu does not mince his words. Known as a straight talker, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was a thorn in the flesh of successive apartheid regimes in South Africa until the demise of white rule in 1994.
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The head of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged developed countries to do more for Africa, including opening their markets to trade.
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South Africa's finance minister will seek to balance calls for raised social investment with sustainable spending when he tables the first budget surplus for a quarter of a century on Wednesday.
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Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has urged the South African National Blood Services (SANBS) to apologise after details of President Thabo Mbeki&#39;s blood donations were made public.
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South Africa's health minister took another controversial foray into the AIDS debate Thursday by questioning international medical studies that say circumcision helps reduce HIV infections in men.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki pledged to tackle poverty and crime, speed up land redistribution to blacks and fight AIDS in a speech on Friday that focused on the country's most glaring social ills.
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African, especially southern African, nations must link tuberculosis testing and treatment with HIV prevention programs if they are to win the AIDS battle, a top World Health Organisation official said on Thursday.
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An MP says the debate over a dying African woman being sent home should be about health care in her country.
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African National Congress (ANC) head of presidency and spokesman Smuts Ngonyama has called for a code of conduct for the tripartite alliance, a move observers said could lead to a muzzling of dissent.