<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - South Africa</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><description>South Africa</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Pakistani Charged With Export Of Devices With Nuclear Uses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38757-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38757-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A Pakistani businessman illegally exported devices from the United States that could be used to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons, the government alleged yesterday.]]></description><author> Lara Jakes Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In South Africa, 'Pro-Life' Has  Different Meaning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38440-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38440-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Catholic AIDS workers facing an epidemic in Africa are arguing against the traditional papal ban on condoms.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apartheid and Cinema Verity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18959-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18959-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's tough to reconcile the truth with "In My Country's" handling of it.]]></description><author> Lynne Duke</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Name for S. African Capital]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30457-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30457-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Monday, when the metropolitan council voted to replace the capital's name with an African one, Tshwane, the change brought a feeling of mild vindication to Moses Skhosana.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyoto Credits System Seen as Debit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28191-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28191-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sajida Khan, who has fought for years to close an apartheid-era dumpsite that she says has sickened many people in her predominantly brown and black community outside Durban, South Africa, was dismayed to learn recently that she faces a surprising new obstacle: the Kyoto global warming treaty.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portraits of Anywhere but Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56487-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56487-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the wonder world of cinema, South Africa's landscape has doubled as an oil-rich California coastline and a spring break beach in Florida.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[AIDS Ravages Mothers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36283-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36283-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Although Ethiopia's infection rate of 4.4 percent for HIV is far lower than many other African countries, an alarming number of the nation's women are dying of AIDS, often after passing the disease to their children.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[S. Africa Reports AIDS-Related Jump in Deaths]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36320-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36320-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[South Africa on Friday reported a 57 percent jump in deaths between 1997 and 2002, providing a startling -- if indirect -- picture of the rocketing toll of the country's AIDS epidemic.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[South African Investigators Are Sent Out Of Zimbabwe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59237-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59237-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2 -- A delegation of South African labor union officials, who had traveled to neighboring Zimbabwe to investigate reports of repression and human rights abuses, were deported moments after their aircraft landed in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Drugs Approved  For Anti-AIDS Program]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36411-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36411-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[U.S. program allots $15 billion to buy low cost combination drugs made by foreign companies, opening the way to treat more patients in poor countries.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In S. Africa, Stigma Magnifies Pain of AIDS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7822-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7822-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Patients say they are treated as contaminated sinners; some are ordered to use separate toilets or to wash outside. Others are banished.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thatcher's Son To Plead Guilty In Coup Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4972-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4972-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mark Thatcher will plead guilty to unwittingly bankrolling an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, a person close to the family said Wednesday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refugees With Hopes, Skills Find Opportunity in S. Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59587-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59587-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Once the continent's pariah because of racial oppression, South Africa has become the favored destination for educated, ambitious refugees from other parts of Africa with political and economic problems.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mandela Says AIDS Led to Death of Son]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52781-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52781-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 6 -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced Thursday that his son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, had died that morning of illness related to AIDS, and he urged other families to speak openly about the toll of a disease that has ravaged South Africa but is still widely regarded as a taboo topic.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa's Mbeki at Once President and Pundit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23335-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23335-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Unlike his predecessor Nelson Mandela, who focused on reconciliation after the end of apartheid, Mbeki is combative, and his Friday newsletter column is often a forum for settling scores with rivals.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthony Sampson Dies; British Writer, Journalist]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15197-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15197-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Anthony Sampson, a British writer and journalist who became a close friend and biographer of Nelson Mandela, died Dec. 18 of a heart attack at his home in Wiltshire, England. He was 78.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ray of Hope for S. Africans With AIDS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20747-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20747-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[More than a year after the South African government decided to offer low-cost antiretroviral treatment to  everyone with AIDS, only about one out of every 50 AIDS patients who are medically ready for antiretrovirals receives them from the public health system, said researchers.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of Deaths, Seen Through A Life]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18938-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18938-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Statistics for AIDS in Africa are so overwhelmingly depressing they make your eye sockets throb. The United Nations is constantly reporting things like:]]></description><author> Linton Weeks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[S. Africans Shun a Remedy for AIDS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49662-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49662-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After years of struggling to make anti-retrovirals available in the developing world, medical authorities have been startled to discover that many people in the advanced stages of AIDS are reluctant to take them -- or accept the treatment only when death is so near that the medication can no longer reverse the slide.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Brutal Sexual Assault Galvanizes Swazi Women]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4589-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4589-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/southafrica</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MANZINI, Swaziland -- Gugu Pungwayo couldn't bear to read the newspaper article. She recalled that she glanced at the headline, then put the paper down. Picked it up again. Put it down. Again. And again.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item></channel></rss>