Word: botswana
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...sentencing judge, who had told Bosch that "the crime was carefully planned with the motive of enabling you to take over the husband of the deceased... You are not very young, you were not intoxicated and you were not provoked." Bosch, the court accepted, brought the gun into Botswana from South Africa, climbed a fence at the Wolmarans house, went in and shot her friend twice...
...gallows, and South Africa has not come to her aid. "Here we have what we call unbuntu, which means we honor our fellow men because they are human," says Grace Morgorosi, a secretary in Gaborone. "If you commit murder, you must pay the price." With little support in Botswana, pressure from international human rights groups may be the last card Bosch has to play...
...epidemic. Nowhere has that been more evident than in the government's failure to provide drugs that could prevent pregnant women from passing HIV to their babies. The government has said it can't afford the 300-rand-per-dose, 28-dose regimen of azt that neighboring nations like Botswana dole out, using funds and drugs from foreign donors. The late South African presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana even suggested publicly that it was not cost effective to save these children when their mothers were already doomed to die: "We don't want a generation of orphans...
...local wonder drug ended in scandal when the drug turned out to be made of industrial solvent. Those fiascoes left the government skittish about embracing expensive programs, inspiring a 1998 decision not to provide azt to HIV-positive pregnant women. Zimbabwe too suffers savagely from feckless leadership. Even in Botswana, where the will to act is gathering strength, the resources to follow through have to come from foreign hands...
...have come to three countries abutting one another at the bottom of Africa--Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe--the heart of the heart of the epidemic. For nearly a decade, these nations suffered a hidden invasion of infection that concealed the dimension of the coming calamity. Now the omnipresent dying reveals the shocking scale of the devastation...