South Africa's health minister said Thursday that HIV
infection rates among pregnant women declined for the second
straight year and claimed it was proof of the success of government
policies
Just out of sight of the tour buses that flock to the
Cape of Good Hope, more than 2,000 foreigners are crammed into a
makeshift refugee camp on the shores of the Atlantic
A wave of violence against immigrants that left 56 people dead and forced 30,000 from their homes has subsided, South Africa's safety and security minister said Monday
The atmosphere was tense in Cape Town on Friday after xenophobic violence that has left more than 40 dead in Johannesburg spread to South Africa's largest city.
Running a business with more than 300 locations worldwide keeps Charlene Begley in perpetual motion. A company vet who led Plastics for two years before helping GE (No. 6 on the 500) sell the unit last May, Begley has always had a packed travel schedule.
Let's say you were making a film. Which do you think would be harder? A. Coordinating a mass alien invasion B. Invoking tidal waves and tornadoes C. Telling a prehistoric love story.
South Africa's health minister said Thursday that HIV
infection rates among pregnant women declined for the second
straight year and claimed it was proof of the success of government
policies
Just out of sight of the tour buses that flock to the
Cape of Good Hope, more than 2,000 foreigners are crammed into a
makeshift refugee camp on the shores of the Atlantic
A wave of violence against immigrants that left 56 people dead and forced 30,000 from their homes has subsided, South Africa's safety and security minister said Monday
The atmosphere was tense in Cape Town on Friday after xenophobic violence that has left more than 40 dead in Johannesburg spread to South Africa's largest city.
Running a business with more than 300 locations worldwide keeps Charlene Begley in perpetual motion. A company vet who led Plastics for two years before helping GE (No. 6 on the 500) sell the unit last May, Begley has always had a packed travel schedule.
Let's say you were making a film. Which do you think would be harder? A. Coordinating a mass alien invasion B. Invoking tidal waves and tornadoes C. Telling a prehistoric love story.
The lights are flickering on and off in South Africa - and it's much more than an inconvenience. Rolling power outages that have become an unwelcome fact of life amount to a "national emergency," authorities said Friday.
A "national electrical emergency" has been declared in South Africa where power cuts are affecting millions of people and casting doubt over plans to host the football World Cup in 2010.
Stereotypical images of Africa, as a global backwater plagued by poverty, disease, conflict and corruption, hide some encouraging realities. Democracy has taken root across the continent. The African economy is expanding briskly. So, too, are opportunities for businesses.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson expects more of the losses in the U.S. mortgage industry that have already damaged the dollar, but predicted a long-term recovery
Brendon Pelser said he saw pure terror in the faces of his fellow passengers after an engine fell from a wing as it took off from Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday.
Seeing buses full of tourists looking for a glimpse of South African poverty, squatter camp resident Lawrence Rolomana decided to try to earn a share of the cash they were spending.
A woman whose personal possessions were taken from a crate washed up on a beach in southern England accused the police of doing too little to protect them.
Police in southwest England are struggling to stop looters from taking away goods that washed ashore from a cargo vessel stranded off the coast in a recent storm.
Barrydale -- 100 miles east of Cape Town -- is becoming a South African Santa Fe, with galleries, wineries, boutique hotels and hiking trails set amid the Western Cape's vast Klein Karoo. Below, an easy itinerary.
Costa Rica is a magnet for international tourists and the Central American state's astonishing geographical and biological diversity -- packed into an area just slightly bigger than Switzerland -- means many are attracted by the great outdoors.
The once-banned political party that helped bring freedom to apartheid-era South Africa now stands accused of stifling democracy in that country's Mother City.
"This bush is called the Climber's Friend," said the guide, pointing at a plant on Cape Town's Table Mountain. The prickly bush certainly didn't look amicable. "Grab onto it if you think you're going to fall," he continued. "It might save your life."
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Airlines at Heathrow have been put on fuel rationing in the wake of the oil depot explosions and fires north of London this week, the airport's operator said Friday.
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Mark Thatcher has left South Africa after pleading guilty to unwittingly bankrolling an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a plea bargain deal that allows him to avoid jail.
In South African townships rife with violence and poverty, thousands of children find comfort and knowledge daily after school by dancing, playing, painting and eating. They study math, reading, music, theater and more, while their older countrymen learn first aid, safe-sex practices, vocational and other life skills.
A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a British man accused of leading a group of mercenaries plotting to topple the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea to seven years in jail.
Former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has posted bail for her son Sir Mark, who is accused of helping to fund an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, has been arrested and charged in South Africa with the financing of an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
Amber Low spent more than six years struggling to get pregnant, trying fertility drugs and surgery. In a desperate build-it-and-they-will-come hope, she and her husband, David, even constructed a h...
Amber Low spent more than six years struggling to get pregnant, trying fertility drugs and surgery. In a desperate build-it-and-they-will-come hope, she and her husband, David, even constructed a h...
It was the travel writer's equivalent of a Willy Wonka golden ticket: an invitation to the first Bush Skills Academy at the Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. Hosted by Conservation Corpo...
I am not normally a violent man, but if the next person who says "The only constant in business today is change" happens to be within lunging distance, he or she will be sorry. Just to keep the pol...
-- JACOBUS DE SWARDT, 27, a white South African sociologist, on why he has agreed to be chairman of the Cape Town Central branch of the militant, largely black African National Congress: ''I now se...
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