Other Facts: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.

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 ...

The death of founding president Sam Nujoma marked more than the end of an era, it revealed the widening fault lines within Namibia's ruling movement. Inside Swapo, a struggle simmering beneath the ...

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki published an open letter on Monday, addressing his handling of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Contrary to what one may expect from a former head of state ...

Critical biographical notes on Thabo Mbeki, excerpted from a contribution to the New York Review of Books by the anti-Stalinist historian of the ANC Paul Trewhela in 2000. In terms of background, ...