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...child will get better, and like all the mothers who stay with their children at the hospital, she tends her lovingly, constantly changing filthy diapers, smoothing sheets, pressing a little nourishment between listless lips, trying to tease a smile from the vacant, staring face. Her husband works in Johannesburg, where he lives in a men's squatter camp. He comes home twice a year. She is 25. She has heard of AIDS but does not know it is transmitted by sex, does not know if she or her husband has it. She is afraid this child will die soon...
...fear never leaves his eyes. He worked in a hair salon in Johannesburg, lived in a men's hostel in one of the cheap townships, had "a few" girlfriends. He knew other young men in the hostel who were on-and-off sick. When they fell too ill to work anymore, like him, they straggled home to rural villages like Msinga Top. But where Khumalo would not go is the hospital. "Why?" he says. "You are sick there, you die there...
...modicum of extra seating space to improve comfort in what I call the cattle class? And what about cleaner, fresher cabin air to lessen the likely spread of bacterial infections? It is ironic that we probably experienced a better quality of cabin air before smoking was prohibited. SYLVIA GON Johannesburg...
...large Zaire outbreaks Ebola emerged in areas so remote that there was little, if any, threat of spread to other countries, including the U.S. Gulu, however, is connected to Uganda's capital by a paved highway, and flights from the now-prospering Kampala depart daily to London, Paris, Johannesburg, Nairobi and other African locales. The threat of spread in this case is a bit more real...
...Poland and what was once the U.S.S.R., in Selma, Ala., and Johannesburg and in countless other places, the catalyst for change has been the very common act of someone saying, "No more!" The longer I live, the more firmly I believe that an oppressed people's rallying cry to revolution is not "Freedom!" but "Enough already!" When people gather under that banner, anything is possible. FRAN HUTCHINSON Brattleboro...