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...chat with FM about her past exploits and present pursuits.1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): With that accent of yours, you can’t be a Boston native. Where are you from? Ceridwen Dovey (CD): That’s a long, messy story. I grew up in Australia and South Africa. My family moved back and forth between the years of 1982 and 1987 about three times. After ’87, we stayed in South Africa, but I later attended high school in Australia at an all-girls school. 2. FM: You went to an all-girls school for high...
Kgalema Motlanthe, who been named by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as its nominee for caretaker president of South Africa, is a consensus candidate - a singular achievement in a party largely bereft of consensus. Motlanthe appears set to take the reins from Thabo Mbeki, whose resignation was demanded by the ruling party after a judge accused Mbeki's government of improperly interfering in the prosecution on corruption charges of his chief rival, Jacob Zuma. Zuma, who beat out Mbeki in a bitterly-fought campaign for leadership of the ANC last December, can't assume the presidency until next year...
...presidency, but his effort to increase black ownership in the economy became controversial as a politically connected few amass great riches while millions of ordinary citizens remain mired in poverty. Poor South Africans vented their rage earlier this year by staging violent pogroms against impoverished immigrants from elsewhere in Africa, who compete with them for low-wage jobs. If Zuma, seen as a man of the people, fails to produce housing and jobs more quickly than his predecessor has, he could face the wrath of the masses and his own party supporters...
...Mbeki's departure could not have come at a worse time for South Africa's northern neighbor, Zimbabwe, where the South African President painstakingly brokered a power-sharing compromise aimed at ending the country's prolonged political crisis. Signed a week ago by Zimbabwe's autocratic president, Robert Mugabe, and his bitter enemy, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the deal has been hanging by a thread. If it holds, the Zimbabwe deal could be Mbeki's most enduring legacy, despite the criticism he has drawn for a policy of "silent diplomacy" that was seen by many to appease Mugabe...
...photos of the violence that has erupted in South Africa this year...