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Miriam Makeba's voice is as majestic and contoured as the Magaliesberg, a range of sloping grassy peaks near her home city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Makeba's nickname is "Mama Africa," and rightfully so. You can hear her homeland in her voice. As she lags behind a beat, drawing out emotion, one feels the weight of apartheid bearing down. Caught up in one of her forceful, husky glissandos, it's hard not to imagine soaring above the lush expanse of the African veld...
...undue praise and attention being lavished on the Oscar-winning film American Beauty disturbing and unwarranted [PEOPLE, April 10]. If adultery, murder, homosexuality, voyeurism and abuse of women are normal in American society, then surely the time has come to stop and take stock. JOHN ST. C. WHITTALL Johannesburg...
...stroke rule also applies at Benoni High School in Johannesburg, South Africa, of which Michael Cornish '03 is an alum. "If you got five strokes you were allowed to go home for the day," he said. Administrators understood that your bleeding ass might need a rest. "Some of my friends used to come out of there bleeding. Afterwards we sat around laughing about it, but when you were going through it, it wasn't a joke...
...record suggests that its ambitions are no small beer. Since its beginnings more than a century ago in Johannesburg's gold-mining camps, SAB has established a near monopoly in its vast--and thirsty--home market. Popular brands like Castle and Lion are nursed in bars and at barbecues across South Africa. SAB's 98% domestic-market share has funded the company's expansion into 20 countries across Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. In 1998, foreign operations made up 45% of the company's $3 billion in worldwide beer sales. SAB is looking to expand further in Africa and Asia...
...been channeled in the right direction, none of this would have happened. The school principal needs to take another long, hard look at what is going on beneath the surface at his school. A lot of the answers lie in the comments made by Evan Todd. MARC DE FONDAUMIERE Johannesburg...