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This November, President Drew G. Faust will be traveling to South Africa and Botswana. To help our girl out, FM decided to put together a short list of tips to make sure her trip goes smoothly...
...data showed that the new vaccine had protected 31% of inoculated participants from becoming infected with HIV. But a closer look at a subset of the study's volunteers now reveals that the vaccine in fact protected only 26% of the people who received it. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...Agliotti is a familiar name in South Africa. He is charged with the murder of his former mining boss and friend Brett Kebble, who was a major donor to the ANC's Youth League, an organization that both Selebi and Nelson Mandela once led. Agliotti denies killing Kebble, who was shot dead as he drove near his house in Johannesburg in 2006, but has admitted taking part in what he described as an "assisted suicide." Agliotti has said that Kebble, who had severe money troubles, had wanted to die and that he had merely helped with arrangements. The case goes...
...Although Selebi's trial signifies a step forward in prosecuting allegations of corruption in South Africa, few expect it will do much to clean up the country's politics. With the prosecutor's dropping the corruption case against Zuma weeks before he was elected, the allegations against him remain unresolved. And while Zuma has taken pains to include a broad spectrum of leaders from different parties and factions within the ANC in his Cabinet, his appointment earlier this month of Mo Shaik to head South Africa's intelligence service raised a few eyebrows. Shaik's brother Schabir Shaik was convicted...
...pictures of South Africa preparing for soccer's World...