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Nearly 9,700 people were victimized in the U.S. last year because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability, the FBI announced in its annual hate-crimes report. The figures represent a 2% increase over 2007, though the FBI, which relies on data supplied voluntarily--and sporadically--by local law-enforcement agencies, warned against comparing statistics from year to year. Advocacy groups point out that violence against illegal immigrants and gays and lesbians is probably underreported because of fears of repercussion or stigma. The data come less than a month after President Obama expanded federal hate-crime...
...since his election in April, President Zuma has surprised. Seven months is not long enough to fix South Africa's problems - and Zuma hasn't. Violent crime, a yawning inequality which juxtaposes black millionaires with millions scraping by on less than $2 a day and the world's largest HIV/AIDS population continue to drag on the country. But whereas Mbeki stoked a national mood of frustration by denying such crises existed, Zuma concedes they are real and even accepts blame. "These challenges are based in reality," the 67-year-old told TIME in a rare interview. "And it's only...
...this year and 4 million by 2014; universal primary education and 95% enrolment in secondary schools by 2014; a 50% cut in new HIV infections and 80% coverage of antiretroviral treatment drugs by 2011; and a 7% to 10% annual cut in serious and violent crime. In September, in what was widely interpreted as the inauguration of a shoot-to-kill policy for police, Zuma said: "Once a criminal takes out their gun ... police must then act. We must apply extraordinary measures." His aim, he says, is to create "a system that keeps you on your toes ... to monitor [yourself...
...attacks and assassinations and ordered the killing of suspected traitors. There was nothing intellectual about such work. In an interview with TIME in early 2007, Zuma summarized his revolutionary ideology in one short sentence: "I was oppressed." Not for Zuma the intellectual contortions that led even Mandela to cast crime as a white, counterrevolutionary plot or Mbeki to see AIDS as a Western drug-company conspiracy. Not for him either the obsession with meeting his former white masters on their terms. If he has a creed, aides say, it is pragmatism, the kind that led him to appoint Pieter Mulder...
...Elections here are high-spending, festive occasions that are good for the economy. But cheating and violence are also par for the course. Commission on Elections director James Jimenez says the debut of electronic voting in 2010 should eliminate two major sources of election crime: trying to fix the outcome by threats of violence again election officials during the vote-counting period, and the practice of dagdag bawas, or padding and shaving votes. "Both should be rendered extinct by an automated vote count in which there will be no opportunity to change the outcome," says Jimenez...