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...Bosch awaits her fate in Gaborone-at a time when African governments are generally moving slowly away from legal executions despite rising crime rates-another blonde white woman sits in a cell in Tanzania's Arusha Prison. Kerstin Cameron, a 40-year-old German national who has lived most of her life in Africa, is charged with the 1998 murder of her estranged husband Cliff. For her, too, conviction could mean death by hanging...
...Cameron was initially told she had no legal case to answer, and the death was ruled a suicide. But pressure from her husband's New Zealand relatives dramatically altered events, and she was arrested last May. The inquiry into the death of Cliff, a 42-year-old bush pilot, is now laden with African bureaucratic inefficiency, post-colonial sensitivities and murky suspicions...
...Kerstin Cameron's legal troubles began on July 4, 1998, when her husband left an Arusha hotel in which he had been drinking heavily and went to visit her and their two young children at their home. A few hours later, he was dead in her bedroom, a bullet in his head. The Tanzanian police twice investigated and twice concluded that Cameron had committed suicide. Two employees of his air-charter company told police he had threatened, in the hours before his death, to blow his brains out. A coroner's report listed suicide as the cause of death...
...While Cameron's case creeps through the Tanzanian bureaucracy, Bosch's life is in the hands of Botswanan President Festus Mogae. He has the power to grant her clemency, but legal observers say that is unlikely, given the courts' unanimity. Bosch lost her final appeal despite the legal muscle of Desmond de Silva, a British barrister who has saved 35 clients from the 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...
Much has been written about what South African Judge Edwin Cameron, himself HIV positive, calls his country's "grievous ineptitude" in the face of the burgeoning 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...