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...Foxx, among others. It's like 2001 all over again, when Time chose Mayor Rudy Giuliani over the real Person of the Year, Osama bin Laden. The world is not the U.S., and the U.S. is not the world. Edwin Del Valle Manila I hope South African president thabo Mbeki gets the chance to read that Time has named him "the most powerful man in Africa." Mbeki has an opportunity to pioneer change from within. At the top of his list should be taking a stand against autocratic rulers like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, who is personally responsible for running...
...Parliament, but currently that voice is effectively silenced regardless. If the MDC, with its widespread popular support and significant (albeit useless) representation in the Parliament, had refused to participate in the past elections, Zimbabwe would have faced a political crisis. Not even the ever-sympathetic South African President Thabo Mbeki could have deemed such and election fair. Instead, the MDC engaged in a futile campaign that only lent credibility to the farce elections in Zimbabwe. The MDC must learn from this mistake and refrain from inadvertently further validating Mugabe’s dictatorship...
...only surviving son had died of aids, news of the family tragedy resonated around the world. More than 5 million South Africans are HIV positive; the U.N. estimates that more than 600 of them die of the virus every day. But the government of Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, has hampered efforts to fight the disease by questioning the link between HIV and AIDS and the efficacy of AIDS drugs. Mandela's public acknowledgment last week that his son Makgatho, 54, an apprentice lawyer, had succumbed to the disease was "a political statement designed to . . . force the President...
...give the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement a share of political power and oil wealth during a six-year transition period, after which the south can hold a referendum on whether to secede. "Africa begins the year 2005 on a very good footing," said South African President Thabo Mbeki, who helped close the deal. "Let's party!" But few believe this will end Sudan's problems. Two decades of fighting have turned southern Sudan into a wasteland, yet nearly a third of the 3.5 million people displaced by the war are expected to return there this year. The deal...
...soothe crying babes. The Winds of Change is a fascinating collection of songs associated with the struggle against apartheid: folk ditties mix with snippets from famous speeches, including British Prime Minister's Harold Macmillan's 1960 "Wind of Change" speech, Nelson Mandela's 1964 Rivonia trial speech and Thabo Mbeki's more recent "I Am an African" speech. You can order them all online at www.africancreammusic.co.za...