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...these drugs in massive quantities, as the demand is surely there? The cost would be brought down to much more reasonable figures. The whole of Africa, not to mention the rest of the Third World, is in desperate need of these antiviral cocktails. Do not forget Africa. JACQUES ALBELDAS Johannesburg...
...revelations were stunning enough last week when South Africa's former chief of police admitted to his role in two notorious acts of sabotage. First, General Johan van der Merwe confessed to giving orders in 1988 to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, a blast that injured 23 people. He also admitted that he ordered his men to infiltrate a ring of antiapartheid activists and provide them with booby-trapped hand grenades, which exploded as soon as the pins were pulled. But then Van der Merwe offered an even more startling disclosure, turning...
...graduated from the University of Witwatersand in Johannesburg in 1966. For the next two years, she served as president of the 20,000-member National Union of South African Students--described as "a red cancer which should be cut out" by South Africa's premier at the time...
When Ben-Shachar was nine, his father's work as an engineer moved the family from Israel to South Africa for five years. The Ben-Shachars lived in a tiny village 80 kilometers south of Johannesburg where, Ben-Shachar recalls, "there was nothing...
...Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa...