PRETORIA, South Africa — When the Mohau children’s home opened in 1997, orphans with AIDS died every other day. But these days, not one child has been lost in seven years — and as they age with the help of drugs they face the teen complexities of dating and sex.

S. Africa’s Zuma slaps down nationalist ANC youth wing

JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma Monday slapped down the nationalist youth wing of his African National Congress (ANC), telling a key party conference the Youth League’s conduct was “unacceptable”.

South African President Jacob Zuma slams youth wing of his party, calls for discipline

Top defender at Charles Taylor’s war-crimes trial wants SAfrica’s Thabo Mbeki to give evidence

South African 17-year-old hit by police bullet at protest over lack of exam prep time

South Africa’s Zuma, responding to international concern, says media freedom not threatened

US Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho killed in apparent robbery attempt

JOHANNESBURG — The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt.

Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo

South African president calls for talks to end nationwide civil servants’ strike in 2nd week

Rwanda threatens to withdraw peacekeepers over UN report implicating Rwanda in Congo genocide

JOHANNESBURG — Rwanda has threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s, Rwanda’s foreign minister says in a letter sent to the U.N.

UN draft report: Rwandan army attacks on refugees in Congo in the 1990s could be genocide

UN draft report: Rwandan army attacks on Hutu refugees in Congo in the 1990s could be genocide

South African labor leader: Mandela’s house was bugged during tumultuous period for ANC

South African police ordered not to join strike that has hit hospitals, schools nationwide

In South Africa, doctors and activists worry about impact of strike on AIDS patients

Gordimer: freedom of expression threatened in S.Africa, calls on other writers to speak out

4 executed in Equatorial Guinea coup plot; opposition calls them political assassinations

JOHANNESBURG — Equatorial Guinea’s government on Tuesday defended the execution of four alleged coup plotters just an hour after they were condemned in a case that Amnesty International called a “pretense of justice.”

Volunteers, soldiers help at S.African hospitals as nationwide strike hits government services

Civil servants’ union calls a strike in South Africa, protests for higher wages start slow

Norway pledges to work for democratic reform in Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy

S. Africa’s ruling party says special tribunal for journalists needed to ‘punish’ bad acts

South Africa recalls ambassador in Rwanda for consultations before elections next week

JOHANNESBURG — The foreign ministry says it has recalled South Africa’s ambassador to Rwanda for consultations surrounding the central African country’s elections next week.

Chilean-American author Dorfman: former political foes must to show remorse about wrong acts

South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu to retire from public life in October at 79

South Africa’s Tutu to retire from public life

Mandela’s birthday: A day to help others across South Africa

Thousands to honour Mandela on 92nd birthday by doing good

JOHANNESBURG - Tens of thousands of people in South Africa and around the world were preparing Friday to honour former president Nelson Mandela on his 92nd birthday at the weekend by devoting time to helping others.