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Jacob Zuma was born in the poor, sparsely populated area of Nkandla in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. His father, a policeman, died when he was 3 and his mother found work as a domestic servant in Durban. Zuma was working full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson...
...AFGHANISTAN 18% Drop in infant mortality in Afghanistan in the five years since the Taliban's fall in 2001, due to wider immunization and improved natal care 85 Number of students and teachers killed last year in attacks on Afghan schools, blamed on Islamic militants who oppose secular schooling for boys and education of any kind for girls...
...found even in essentially dismal lives. There's something spunky about those pies and there's something spunky about Waitress in general. Shelly wrote her screenplay when she was pregnant for the first time and it obviously reflects both the anxieties and the excitement of her of her pre-natal days. You want to indulge that spirit. And, of course, you want to mourn the fact that this well-directed movie turned out to be her last. In normal circumstances we would probably label it "promising." Now, sadly and cruelly, we are forced to mourn the fact that Adrienne Shelly...
...prose of the author and the wonder that Silent Witness must have elicited from admiring crowds. Much as poverty and despair prevail on earth, it is satisfying to see that animals are sometimes recognized for the unknowing yet vast reach they have on us. Karl Germann Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Despite the condemnation of the Natal proposals by the local leader of the ruling National Party, South African State President P.W. Botha, the party head, has been careful not to take a formal position. The recommendations go further than he would wish, but his government is reluctant to reject them outright for fear of setting off more racial unrest. Said John Kane-Berman, conference deputy chairman: "I have no illusions about the difficulties of persuading the government to accept the plan." The Indaba's proposal for Natal may be dead for the moment, but the idea of some form...