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...should be among the richest in Africa to utter penury. Meanwhile, Mobutu and his cronies looted the treasury of billions of dollars. In addition to his many secret bank accounts, Mobutu owns nine villas in Belgium, an estate on the French Riviera and an apartment in Paris; property in Johannesburg, Dakar, Abidjan and Morocco; a coffee plantation in Brazil; and, in the cellars of his estate in Portugal, 14,000 bottles of past-its-prime wine from 1930, the year of his birth. The dictator, who is suffering from prostate cancer, will thus not be inconvenienced by the Swiss seizure...
...ACQUITTED. Jacob Zuma, 64, former South African Deputy President, of charges that he raped an HIV-positive woman in 2005; by a Johannesburg High Court. Zuma, one of South Africa's most powerful politicians, said at the trial that he did have unprotected sex with his accuser but that it had been consensual. His admission and his erroneous statement that taking a shower afterwards reduced his risk of contracting HIV outraged AIDS activists in a country with one of the world's highest rates of HIV infection. He faces trial on unrelated corruption charges in July...
...work together, challenging the top countries in the world." After the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Ainslie took a job as a high school teacher in the navy village of Simon's Town. There he met Golden Mgedeza and Solomon Dipeere, both teenage naval cadets from Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Ainslie nurtured their passion for sailing, and offered free lessons to other poor black and mixed-race kids in the surrounding townships. Burricks was one of the keenest. "We had to chase him away to get him to do some schoolwork during exams," Ainslie recalls. For Burricks, sailing provided an escape...
CLAIM TO FAME Rather than envision a final product, the Johannesburg-born furniture designer focuses on experimenting with materials. Frank's eco-sensitive collection is inspired by the contrast of nature and urban deterioration, corrosion and decay. "I grew up in Africa with big open spaces and came to London, where the bridges and canals are over 100 years old and the buildings are recycled, reclaimed and patched up," he says. "This city has just enhanced my desire for nature...
...luminosity of African beadwork.” With his words and gestures, Stopforth engenders an experience of his art that both illuminates the South African history with which he is engaging and enriches the aesthetic quality of the work itself. Born, raised, and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa, Stopforth did not begin his career as an artist with the intention of spending time at a place like Harvard. In fact, as a South African artist in the late 1960s and 1970s, Stopforth consciously chose to engage with the politics and issues of his region, rather than, as some...