In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision — amid the Trump administration’s assault on foreign aid — to ...

Thirty-one years after the fall of administrative apartheid, South Africa stands at an uneasy juncture between the promise of a rights-based democracy and the lived reality of widespread inequality, ...

Two decades ago, South Africa’s HIV crisis was defined by denialism and delay. Then President Thabo Mbeki and the late Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang presided over a period in which ...

Pros and cons Despite his many weaknesses, a substantial argument could be made for Mbeki. Economic growth was far faster under his administration than under any other post-1994 president. GEAR was ...

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He has spent half his life as a volunteer firefighter on the front lines and said he felt "spoiled" with Grand Cache's gear and its station, which was built in 2020. "We just got a new ...

Particularly from 1996, the decline was due to a neoliberal shock therapy, or lightning liberalisation, imposed through the so-called Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) or ... for former ...

In late May President Thabo Mbeki took exception, in his weekly internet letter, to the reported remarks by Zwelinzima Vavi, COSATU's secretary-general, to the effect that "a reported economic boom in ...

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Two decades ago, South Africa’s HIV crisis was defined by denialism and delay. Then President Thabo Mbeki and the late Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang presided over a period in which ...

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