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...case has spurred some Zuma supporters to hysterical defenses of their man. ANC Youth League President Julius Malema even declared that he would "kill" for Zuma. The power struggle between his supporters and those of Mbeki has been immensely damaging to a party whose moral authority as a liberation movement has plunged in its era of governance, buffeted by corruption scandals, an inability to tackle rising crime and unemployment, and the unseemly spectacle of some its core members and backers becoming billionaires while much of the country remains mired in poverty. At the weekend, former ANC stalwart the Reverend Allan...
...Apartheid era President F.W. de Klerk, who also served as deputy president under Mandela, has begun a campaign to highlight what he claims is ANC abuse of power. "Everywhere the dividing lines between the state and the ruling movement are becoming more blurred," De Klerk told the Cape Town Press Club in June. The "rights and values" which he and Mandela enshrined in the country's 1994 constitution, "are under severe pressure," he said. It says something for how far the ANC has fallen from the moral high ground that in today's South Africa, a former apartheid ruler...
...military bases and similar targets, but such attacks stopped in the 1990s as Chinese control of the region solidified and was extended down to the village level, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York-based Human Rights Watch. Bequelin, who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the separatist movement in Xinjiang, says the latest attack underscores the "complete failure" of China's heavy-handed policies in both Xinjiang and Tibet. "We have to watch the government's reaction carefully," says Bequelin. "They shouldn't use this as an excuse to become even more oppressive. If people don't have...
Chinese security officials have repeatedly stated that the possibility of a terrorist attack by Xinjiang separatists is the greatest threat to the Olympics. Beijing has invariably pointed to a group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement as posing the greatest threat of violence, though in recent weeks, Xinjiang officials have simultaneously asserted that the situation in the province was under control. Counter terrorism experts generally say the East Turkestan Islamic Movement boasts no more than 40 fighters under active training, most likely in the tribal areas of Pakistan that border Afghanistan, where they allegedly have ties to groups directly linked...
...although access was restored to some long-blocked websites maintained by human-rights groups and news organizations, others - those advocating independence for Tibet or dealing with the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong - remained off-limits. It was also not clear how far the relaxation of Internet control extended within China, and skeptics doubted it would persist beyond the Games. "Everyone knows that the minute the circus is over, the walls will be put straight up again," says Russell Leigh Moses, a China scholar based in Beijing...