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...been a rare commodity in recent years, Zimbabweans could scarcely believe their luck last week when the police and courts allowed the Daily News, the country's only independent daily newspaper, to publish for the first time in four months. It was the same day South African President Thabo Mbeki told visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder that Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government would resume talks with the embattled opposition. "I am quite certain they will negotiate and will find an agreement. We will work with them," Mbeki said. But it was too good to be true. Harare...
...with its supporters, reopened voter registration without telling the MDC and limited the number of polling stations in cities, where the opposition is strongest. But almost nobody expects a Zimbabwean court to rule against Mugabe, and the MDC's real audience will be in South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has been one of the President's most faithful apologists. "As long as Mugabe thinks he is being supported by his African brothers, he will see himself as a victim, not as the perpetrator," says MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. "If the African countries were to stop supporting Mugabe, there would...
...surprise is that one of those countries is South Africa--whose president, Thabo Mbeki, has resisted developing a national plan to provide antiretroviral drugs and has even questioned the link between HIV and AIDS. What changed his mind? "You can only stay in denial so long," Clinton told TIME. "He was exposed to two articles by people--I'm ashamed to say they were Americans--who said HIV doesn't cause AIDS, and the medicine could kill you. He also had a legitimate issue: South Africa had given out anti-TB medicine without a proper protocol and they wound...
South African President Thabo Mbeki had resisted developing a national plan to provide antiretroviral drugs and even questioned the link between HIV and AIDS . What brought him around? There was always in South Africa - including in the government - people who really wanted to do something. I understood how President Mbeki got to where...
When did you know he was going to agree? I went [to Johannesburg] for President Mandela's 85th birthday party [last July]. Mbeki said to me, "Now, if I do this, you'll promise me that these drugs will be administered with the same high quality that the [National Institutes of Health] would use in America?" I said, "I give you my word." He said, "O.K., I'll do it." I give him all the credit. He was always trying to get back there . . . Now we're just waiting for the South African government to approve their final plan...