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...born in Kampala, Uganda. My ancestors had moved there from India, part of a wave of migration that began in the 1880s, when the British brought over Indian indentured laborers to build the East African railway. They were followed by Indian entrepreneurs and the impoverished, all hoping to make good in that fecund land...
...With the opposition apparently powerless to enforce the democratic victory it claims to have won at the polls, much attention has shifted to Zimbabwe's neighbors, foremost among them South Africa, on which the country remains economically dependent. But the South African leadership is internally divided since the ruling African National Congress mutinied against President Thabo Mbeki last December, and chose his arch rival, Jacob Zuma, as party president. And that split may be playing out in South Africa's response to events in Zimbabwe. On Saturday, Mbeki visited Mugabe in Harare and declared that there was no crisis...
...Crimson, and about 40 students have joined its staff. May Lan Dong ’11, the organization’s director of finance and strategic relations, said she anticipates further success for the project in months to come. Campus organizations such as Harvard-Radcliffe Television and the Harvard African Students Association have expressed interest in collaborating with the Voice, according to Pavic and Duque...
...Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa called a conference of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the Zambian capital Lusaka to discuss the delay in the release of results in Zimbabwe's presidential race. Though Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won a parliamentary majority in the March 29 vote, the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) has not released the official result in the presidential race. An independent survey places Tsvangirai well ahead in the vote, and the MDC itself claims an outright victory after 28 years of Mugabe's rule...
...past, Mugabe has found support and empathy from neighboring states in the SADC. Many southern African leaders, such as South African President Thabo Mbeki, are his peers in the African liberation movement. Others, such as Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, have ruled just as undemocratically, and for just as long. In interview, Tsvangirai told TIME that his talks with SADC leaders had suggested Mugabe's support was evaporating. "Everyone realizes he is a cheat," he said...