THE fight against HIV in South Africa has taken another knock. On 9 August President Thabo Mbeki fired the deputy health minister for “insubordination” after she attended an AIDS conference in Spain ...

And now it's breath-holding time for South Africa, as the nation comes to grips with the sudden, shock-and-awe removal of its president Thabo Mbeki by his own party. Mbeki's credo for the continent ...