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...also about the multiculturalism to be found among Islamic peoples. “They say that the religion itself can be likened to a clear river,” Cajee said. “When it flows over China, it looks Chinese; when it flows over Africa, it looks African.” Lipman’s talk, titled “Spotlight on: Chinese Muslims” and jointly organized with the Chinese Students Association, stressed similar points. He described the diversity of Chinese Muslims, who vary from practicing Turkic-speaking Uyghurs in the west to non-practicing Chinese...
...warm summer's day in mid-January, South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, held a rally in East London on the country's southern coast to launch its campaign for re-election. Inside the city's stadium, in a pen between the stage and a sea of supporters in the ANC colors of yellow, black and green, stood the party's VIPs. Many of the men wore Gucci and the women Prada, but mixed in with them were 60 or so people, of both sexes, in combat fatigues whose camo caps identified them as veterans of Umkhonto...
...party was frustrating an investigation into a corrupt $5 billion arms agreement (the same deal from which Zuma was alleged to have benefited), says the last few years have seen a "regression in Africa's proudest democracy that seeps into some of those stereotypes of African Big Men." Raymond Suttner, a former ANC activist who was detained from 1975-1983, talks of how once in power the party let "ambition and greed" lead it into "lawlessness, amorality and criminality." COPE founder Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota tells TIME: "To fight for freedom, you need a liberation organization. But South Africa has moved...
...government. The approach proved schizophrenic. Mbeki the democrat adopted liberal economics, oversaw impressive growth and won plaudits as a consensus-building peace negotiator across Africa. Mbeki the revolutionary saw his country's AIDS epidemic as a Western conspiracy, a stance which cut treatment and cost 330,000 South African lives between 2000 and 2005, according to a November report by the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...subsist on cattle, sheep, goats, chickens and maize. A new power grid has reached most homes - but supply is erratic. Most roads remain unpaved. In Mthatha, 74% of the population earns less than $150 a month and 43% are unemployed, according to a June 2008 report by the South African Medical Journal. In 2007, East London's Daily Dispatch newspaper revealed that poor maternity care at the city's Frere Hospital was resulting in around 200 stillborn babies every year - and that the corpses were being buried in mass paupers' graves. A tour of Mthatha General Hospital suggests conditions...