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...willingness of people to learn and to engage,” he said. “To engage and to show solidarity is a very important thing.” Achmat also shared his views on the history of HIV in South Africa. He attributed the Mbeki government’s failure to manage the AIDS crisis to its “denialist” attitude and to “the enormous power of drug companies” over public policy. Achmat said that in coming to Harvard, he was fulfilling a promise he had made which a heart...
SOUTH AFRICA Of course he wore it in the rainbow nation! It may be summer there, but the sweater for all seasons reappeared on Jan. 11 for a visit with President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria...
...know something I found out?" he said of his self-immolation. "When you're on fire and running down the street, people get out of your way." CHARGED. JACOB ZUMA, 63, former Deputy President of South Africa; with rape; in Johannesburg. A one-time heir apparent to President Thabo Mbeki, Zuma was dismissed earlier this year after his financial adviser was found guilty of fraud and corruption; Zuma himself was charged with corruption soon after. The charismatic politician denies any wrongdoing and says he will fight the rape charges, brought by a 31-year-old aids activist. DIED. EDWARD MASRY...
...Opinion polls show a majority of South Africans supporting Mbeki's decision to axe Zuma, but it enraged the Deputy President's supporters on the left flank of the ruling party, particularly in its Youth League and among its Communist Party and union allies. They responded with a noisy public campaign to have Zuma reinstated and made the ANC's next presidential candidate when Mbeki's term expires in 2009. Zuma backers alleged their man was the victim of a conspiracy by ANC conservatives, including the president, and their depth of feeling was illustrated in at least one protest when...
...more centrist leadership of the ANC. A savage debate over the decision to back Zuma is already roiling South Africa's union movement and Communist Party. "They are in internal turmoil because they backed the wrong person," says William Gumede, author of the best selling book Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC. "And now they're out of the succession loop and out of the policy loop." With Zuma gone and the left in disarray, President Mbeki will find it easier to push through reforms aimed at nudging economic growth above 6%-in particular...