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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was born in April 1942 in the dirt-poor town of Nkandla among the deep gorges and steep ridges of the Zulu heartland in the southeastern province of what is now called KwaZulu-Natal. Unemployment in South Africa hovers at around 40% but in Nkandla it is 90%. Tarred roads, electricity and running water are a novelty if they exist at all, a quarter of the population is infected with HIV and only 3% graduate from high school. Though he grew up before AIDS, bad health was rife - his father, a policeman, died when...
Researchers interviewed 1,738 men of all race groups, in both urban and rural settings in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, provinces marked by high rates of AIDS and poverty, and the men answered questions about rape and HIV using small handheld computers in order to guarantee anonymity. Of those admitting rape, 73% said that they had committed their first assault before the age of 20. According to the researchers, many of the study's participants appeared to see no problem with what they had done. These findings, says Mbuyiselo Botha, a senior program advisor at Sonke Gender Justice...
...crew and act for Hollywood, but the country now churns out a steady roll of its own excellent small films. The year before Tsotsi won its Oscar, South Africa missed out on one for Yesterday, the story of an HIV-infected mother bringing up her daughter in dirt-poor KwaZulu Natal. In 2007 came Bunny Chow, a hip black-and-white comedy about three comedians traveling to a festival that recalled early Spike Lee. Last year featured Jerusalema, a sophisticated thriller about the rise and fall of a Johannesburg slumlord - a kind of South African American Gangster - which made...
...Sluzas has yet to choose a concrete place to live, she is considering a city near the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric river dam in China whose construction required a massive relocation of over a million Chinese residents. PHOTOGRAPHING HIVSmith will work on educational organizations and explore photojournalism in KwaZulu-Natal, a province of South Africa.A lover of photojournalism, Smith said she will be taking pictures and using them to raise awareness of AIDS in Africa while helping to create educational organizations for orphans and children affected by HIV.The most prevalent language in Kwazulu-Natal is Zulu, a clicking language...
...elected. He is America's new leader and his race has nothing to do with it. I understand why Kenyans are rejoicing, but as Americans you should just say "We have elected the right person for President." Let's forget about the man's race - I have. Chris King, KWAZULU NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA...