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Mark Gevisser

Southern African Correspondent

Mark Gevisser, The Nation's Southern Africa correspondent, is the author of Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred.

Currently

  • Zimbabwe Reeling

    April 24, 2008 Subscribe

    Peace among warring factions will come only when each side accepts that it can't win. And none of the players--least of all Robert Mugabe--has come to this realization.

2005

  • AIDS Movement Seizes Control

    December 2, 2005

    Despite its controversy, World AIDS Day has demonstrated how vast and global the AIDS movement has gone. While the extent of AIDS advocacy was not as far-reaching then, in 1987 a burgeoning movement of health care practitioners and gay activists battled the FDA's questionable policies on AIDS drugs experimentation, which included excluding women and i.v. users from drug trials.

2002

  • As Zimbabwe Goes...

    March 21, 2002

    Afrophobia aside, there are more honorable reasons for the world's current obession with Zimbabwe's tragic descent into chaos.

2001

  • Dispatches

    September 27, 2001

    The events of September 11 as viewed from around the world.

  • The Cosatu Strike

    August 30, 2001

    As the UN racism conference begins in Durban, South Africa, a nationwide labor strike and the US's downgraded presence highlight a global North/South divide.

  • AIDS: The New Apartheid

    April 26, 2001

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