While AIDS was running rampant in South Africa, President Nelson Mandela did little about it. Then his son died of it. Mandela took up the cause, but not his successor.
More troubles in Zimbabwe: Just four weeks after brokering a power-sharing deal, South Africa's former president Thabo Mbeki is back in Zimbabwe to try to save it. Guest: Jonah Fisher, BBC correspondent, in Johannesburg
Guest: Jonah Fisher, BBC World Service
Resolution on Zimbabwe adopted by leaders at African Union summit calls for dialog between Robert Mugabe and the opposition.
Most of Zimbabwe's neighbors have been slow to criticize President Robert Mugabe or even publicly address reports of violence toward his opponents, but there have been more voices of dissent in the past week, as The World's Jason Margolis has more.
Rhoda Metcalfe reports that South Africa's president has suspended the national police chief amid corruption charges, and critics say the move was long overdue.