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Anton Steenkamp, a former editor of Die Matie, a year ago led an attempt by Stellenbosch students to visit the headquarters of the outlawed African National Congress in Lusaka, but the government refused to issue them passports. He says he finds more dissatisfaction than ever before. "There has been a shift to the left on campus, especially since the independent candidates have emerged...
...Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, 16% of the adult population, including up to 30% of the men, have been exposed to the AIDS virus. Now babies and young children are also being infected, some at birth via their mothers, who are AIDS carriers, and others through blood transfusions, which are frequently administered to children suffering from malarial anemia. In tiny Rwanda (pop. 6 million), researchers estimate that as many as 22% of AIDS victims are children...
...African officials seem more concerned with the short-term economic impact. While most governments have stopped denying that the AIDS threat exists, officials fearful that publicity about the AIDS epidemic will hurt tourism and foreign investment have continued to play it down. In Zambia, the Lusaka government banned all press statements on AIDS last March. Government officials are "putting their heads in the sand and hoping the disease cures itself," charges one Zambian doctor, who expects to see "scores of thousands of deaths from AIDS" in the next two years...
...Winnie Mandela, the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, caused a furor last April by declaring, "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country." A.N.C. leaders later told her to stop making such statements, and at the group's 75th anniversary celebration in Lusaka two weeks ago, A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo declared, "Of course we are not in favor of necklacing. We don't like necklacing, but we understand its origins. It originated from the extremes to which people were provoked by the unspeakable brutalities of the apartheid system...
Such continuing pressure on Pretoria was cold comfort to A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo as he presided over anniversary festivities in Lusaka. There were speeches, rallies and a birthday cake decorated with icing in black, green and gold, the A.N.C.'s colors. But the most remarkable event was Tambo's speech, in which he played down the bloody guerrilla tactics that the A.N.C. has advocated in recent years. Instead, he embarked on a more moderate approach, pledging that "civilians, both black and white," would not be harmed by A.N.C. fighters. He called on whites to "come together in a massive democratic...