Full Coverage: South Africa

05/29/2006 South African police are targetting people they perceive to be foreigners for harassment, according to human rights bodies.

05/19/2006 Aung San Suu Kyi received three times as many nominations as Nelson Mandela to win the New Statesman "Heroes of Our Time" vote.
* After meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, UN envoy leaves Myanmar

05/15/2006 South Africa still suffers from "institutionalized gender oppression," says rights activist Delphine Serumaga, believing that the Jacob Zuma verdict reinforces chauvinistic attitudes toward rape as well as male privilege and power. Serumaga and four other South Africans respond to Zuma's acquittal.

05/09/2006

Jacob Zuma © allAfrica.com

He said her skirt was an invitation. He said he showered after sex to minimize the threat of HIV infection. He was South Africa's deputy president, and after his acquittal Monday activists pledged to continue the struggle for justice in the country where a rape is committed every 26 seconds.

05/04/2006 Universal access to information and knowledge can yield positive spin-offs to help governments of the world meet the Millennium Development Goals to halve poverty and unemployment by 2015.