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...summer of 2000, public health experts and activists convened in Durban, South Africa for the 13th International AIDS Conference. Although South Africa was home to the world’s largest HIV positive population, most of the infected were far too poor to afford the anti-retroviral therapy that can transform HIV into a manageable chronic illness...
Jacob Zuma was born in the poor, sparsely populated area of Nkandla in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. His father, a policeman, died when he was 3 and his mother found work as a domestic servant in Durban. Zuma was working full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson...
...looked to many like the last, best hope for peaceful change in racially tormented South Africa. Since last April delegates from 39 groups of blacks and whites from a wide political spectrum had been meeting in Durban, the main city of the coastal province of Natal, to find a way to transform the province from white minority rule to some form of multiracial government. In a land where passions run high and tempers are often short, they thought that successful power sharing in Natal might become a model for a national solution...
...proceedings, however, were denounced by radicals in both the black and white camps. Black nationalist groups such as the banned African National Congress and the multiracial United Democratic Front, which insist on black majority rule rather than power sharing, heaped scorn on the Durban deliberations. Two far-right white groups, the Conservative Party and the Herstigte National Party, which oppose political concessions to blacks, de clined invitations to attend...
...SOUTH AFRICA A British sugar magnate in Durban imported the vehicle from Japan toward the end of the 19th century. By 1904, the city boasted 2,000 rickshaws, many pulled by Zulu migrants wearing elaborate traditional headdresses for the enjoyment of their colonial patrons...