South Africa

Alone in South Africa with a drunken husband Alone in South Africa with a drunken husband

I left the U.S. when I got married and now, with three grown children at home, I feel torn.
By Cary Tennis Sep 5, 2008

  • "I am at the lowest end of all"

    Report: For rural South African women, violence + HIV = human rights abuse.
    By Lynn Harris March 19, 2008

  • Take back the mini!

    South African women protest violence using their heads -- and their legs.
    By Carol Lloyd March 6, 2008

  • South Africa gets an earful about Mike Tyson's visit

    A visit from the former boxing champion illustrates how the nation's government is still painfully ignorant about rape.
    By Carol Lloyd January 31, 2008

  • Salon's guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing

    Novelist, memoirist, activist, fantasist -- this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes you on a guided tour of the celebrated writer's long literary career.
    By Laura Morgan Green October 12, 2007

  • AIDS crisis? What AIDS crisis?

    South African President Thabo Mbeki sacks his deputy health minister, leaving HIV/AIDS patients back in the hands of "Dr. Beetroot."
    By Catherine Price August 14, 2007

  • Abortion access saves South African women's lives

    The country "clearly leads the region in advancing women's reproductive health and rights."
    By Lynn Harris March 14, 2007

  • What else we're reading

    Gay rights in South Africa, rape-prevention tips from the U.K., collective bargaining in Bangalore and more.
    By Page Rockwell November 20, 2006

  • Happy and gay

    Good news on gay rights around the world.
    By Carol Lloyd November 16, 2006

  • Big and beautiful, but not healthy, in South Africa

    Expert says rise in obesity among South African women is due in part to fears of appearing to have HIV/AIDS.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory August 11, 2006

  • What else we're reading

    Women's alleged reliance on hair dye, a bittersweet women's rights anniversary in South Africa, and a weird little holiday in New York.
    By Page Rockwell August 10, 2006

  • How sanctions worked for South Africa's Sasol

    From an Arab oil embargo to coal gasification mastery
    By Andrew Leonard July 11, 2006

  • No condom? Just shower

    Former South African president is acquitted of rape, but is guilty of setting his country back.
    By Lynn Harris May 10, 2006

  • Wole Soyinka: Exit, pursued by a bear

    The Nigerian Nobel laureate's weird memoir recalls a life of protest, exile -- and farcical political interventions.
    By Matt Steinglass April 20, 2006

  • In South Africa, ritual and legislation collide

    A new South African law puts new prohibitions on girls' vaginal inspections.
    By Hillary Frey December 30, 2005

  • Meet the buppies

    A decade into democracy, South Africa's elite blacks prosper. But their glitz and glam hide a world-class inequality that only gets worse.
    By Jennifer Abrahamson April 29, 2004

  • When security becomes apartheid

    To stop suicide bombers, Israel is erecting a 26-foot-high barrier to wall off the occupied territories. But the wall is causing daily hardship -- and annoying President Bush.
    By Ferry Biedermann July 26, 2003

  • Millions die, Bush is silent

    The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it.
    By Laura McClure July 4, 2003

  • "Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony"

    An extraordinary new documentary traces the South African freedom struggle through its joyous, defiant music.
    By Jeff Stark February 21, 2003

  • Isolated, again

    At the U.N. Summit on Sustainable Development, the harshest critics of Bush's recalcitrant policies -- and his absence -- are Americans.
    By Kim Gurney August 30, 2002

  • See no evil, or the blind hearing the naked

    A blind man was caught listening to child porn. Can he be prosecuted?
    By Chris Colin June 26, 2001
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