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...chef and inventor of kaiten-zushi, a clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers of the prices; in Osaka. In 1958, Shiraishi opened the first restaurant using his method, which quickly gained popularity throughout Japan and overseas. DIED. GOVAN MBEKI, 91, father of South African President Thabo Mbeki and longtime antiapartheid activist who was jailed in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela, a fellow African National Congress leader; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He was released from prison in 1987 and, seven years later, won a seat in Parliament in South...
...Similarly, the Clinton's served an exquisite lamb encrusted in pickled lemons to the visiting king of Morocco last year, and an African-spiced ginger-and-apricot glazed lamb to South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki...
...live below the poverty line. LIBERIA Rebels to Go Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone agreed to tackle dissident groups that have destabilized the region for more than a decade. The Foreign Ministers of the three countries said armed rebels caught within their respective borders would be repatriated. SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki Challenged AIDS activists and doctors filed a suit in Pretoria's High Court to force the government to provide anti-HIV drugs in all public hospitals. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) accused the government of violating the country's constitution by failing to distribute the drug nevirapine to HIV-positive...
...While Mugabe stonewalls, other African leaders are becoming alarmed by the Zimbabwe situation. South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki admitted in a BBC interview that Mugabe had ignored his attempts at "quiet diplomacy." The powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions has openly condemned the land grabs. Even King Mswati of Swaziland, Africa's only absolute monarch, has said Mugabe "has to be stopped." Two weeks ago, expressing "grave concern" about Zimbabwe, the 14-nation Southern African Development Community moved to set up a team to "engage in dialogue" with Mugabe and his government. There is little evidence the message...
...Tricycle Theatre this week, audiences are responding as enthusiastically to the play, in which Uys transforms himself into a handful of characters - or caricatures - to expose the hypocrisy and ignorance surrounding Africa's AIDS crisis. His onstage incarnations include Dr. Thaboo MacBeki - any resemblance to South African President Thabo Mbeki is entirely intentional - who exclaims: "My mind is made up! Do not confuse me with facts." There's also ex-stripper Bambi Kellerman, who believes that "racism is easier to catch than AIDS." In between characters, Uys tells sobering stories from the AIDS frontline: of schools that refuse to install...