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...Soul City' reflects the life and hard times of people in a typical South African urban black township. In fact, most of the series' location shots are taken in Alexandra, one of the oldest and most squalid of South Africa's black slums, just outside Johannesburg. And 'Soul City's clinic, where much of the drama is centered, is based on an actual clinic in Alexandra...
DIED. NKOSI JOHNSON, 12, sweetly tenacious South African AIDS activist born HIV-positive, befriended by world leaders after addressing the 13th International AIDS Conference last July and pleading for compassion and treatment for afflicted children, babies and pregnant women; in Johannesburg. Shortly before he died, he wrote, "I wish I was well...Then I would be able to grow...
Nearly every day VU2MKP, Kohli's ham radio name, converses with the world - with Suleiman in Saudi Arabia, Xavier in Germany, Hal from Johannesburg. He and Charlie from Hong Kong talk about growing bananas in the backyard. With Chandru, who also lives in Koramangala, he discusses the latest antenna technology. A program running on his laptop helps him track which of 20 radio satellites are available at any given moment. Details about his radio friends show up through an automatic program as soon as he feeds their code in with his stick...
...hypersensitive reaction of the ANC was recently mirrored by one of the stalwarts of traditional South African liberalism, Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for literature. The education department of Gauteng province (where Johannesburg is located) recently announced that Gordimer's 1990 novel, "July's People," was "not acceptable" for use in the prescribed list of books to be read by high school seniors. The committee described the book as "deeply racist, superior and patronizing...
...itself and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs, where it can cause a fatal obstruction. Last October, British traveler Emma Christofferson, 28, died shortly after flying home from Australia. Last month, a woman in her late 40s suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism during an 11-hour flight between Johannesburg and London. John Belstead, an accident and emergency consultant at Britain's Ashford Hospital, which receives emergency cases from Heathrow Airport, estimates that the condition affects as many as 2,000 travelers in the U.K. each year, and that 15 of those die from DVT developed on long-haul flights...