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...commend you for your article on AIDS in Africa [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 12]. The writing was beautiful and moving. The AIDS pandemic here in South Africa is a greater Goliath than apartheid was. And on the wider continental front, we who live and labor in Africa and love this continent fear that this plague could be our undoing unless extensive help reaches us from other countries. Thank you for making that appeal. But as critical as outside help is, especially for the millions of victims, the even greater responsibility lies within Africa to teach, preach and practice safe sex. Unless...
...More than a decade ago Paul Simon's "Graceland" album introduced Ladysmith Black Mambazo to international popular culture, promoting this a cappella ensemble as a global emissary of isicathamiya and its sonorous hymns of protest and healing. For years apartheid repression haunted this music, with verses mourning loss of ancestral land to European farmers and love eroded by the distance between a Zulu migrant worker and his rural family waiting for him and his wages. Now in South Africa many isicathamiya performers no longer denounce white minority rule. New lyrics portray Africans straddling rural tradition and urban modernity, and dreams...
...Zulu men dominate isicathamiya, though Zulu women are entering the ranks. A troupe often represents a district from one of the former apartheid reserves administered by tribal chiefs. Residents in these infertile scrublands remain dirt poor and dependent on income from emigrant relatives. Their homes are only now receiving electricity and running water. A lone goat bleating often punctuates the usual rural stillness, but when people gather for traditional ceremonies the landscape reverberates with songs of courting and dances of war. Isicathamiya embraces both these vibrant customs and the modern cultural innovations brought by Zulu workers living in cosmopolitan cities...
...West achieved the dismantling of Africa's most powerful government--the apartheid regime in South Africa--by threatening to call in its loans. The West must exercise that option again and apply pressure, especially against governments that turn a blind eye to traditional cultural practices that abuse women. The West must help those who suffer. LLEWELLYN VAN WYK Cape Town...
...scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era confrontations between security forces and black township residents, police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at a mob of protesting squatters in Alexandra township as local council officials moved in to remove them. The eviction order on 3,500 families living along the Jukskei River that runs through Alexandra came after squatter shacks were washed away by floodwaters and the river was found to be contaminated with cholera. The government is trying to curb a cholera outbreak that has already resulted in some 18,000 infections and more than 70 deaths...