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...Relief agencies say close to half the resident population now supplement their diets with food aid and, with an economy that has collapsed, there is little hope of improvement. Running parallel to Zimbabwe's worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming years will be a deepening political one, analysts predict. Pretoria-based Zimbabwe expert Chris Maroleng, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, describes the three months since the first round of voting on March 29 - in which Tsvangirai came out ahead, but without the outright majority that would have ruled out a runoff - as a creeping military coup. The army...
...poor has another very visible symptom: some of the world's worst violent crime. South Africa's police have been quick to blame the riots on the same criminals who, every 24 hours, murder an average of 52 people in South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki, whose official residence in Pretoria was burgled in May, has acknowledged the threat inequality presents, but insists his government is bridging the divisions of the past. More than a million new homes have been built since apartheid ended in 1994, and Mbeki has now named a high-level government committee to examine the causes...
...students and alumni, including Van Vuuren, Fabry, Stephen H. Lwendo ’10, David M. Sengeh ’10, Zoe Sachs-Arellano ’07, and graduate student Aviva Presser. Professors David A. Edwards and Peter R. Girguis advised the project. Van Vuuren, who is from Pretoria, South Africa, said the privilege of a Harvard education becomes starkly apparent every time he returns home, reminding him again of the mission of the project. “We live charmed lives at Harvard,” Van Vuuren said. “It’s important...
...down Zimbabwe would be considerably more painful for Mugabe's long-suffering people than for the aging autocrat himself, and the resulting refugee crisis would put a destabilizing strain on both South Africa and other neighbors. Yet Chris Maroleng, a Zimbabwe expert at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, expects that regional leaders will toughen their stance in time. "Following the recount [of votes in Zimbabwe], we will probably see some kind of cohesive strategy to deal with Zimbabwe," he says. "As the situation worsens in Zimbabwe, [regional leaders] will increasingly see Mugabe as a liability." That...
...Angela Makholwa, author of the serial-killer thriller Red Ink, visited prisoners in Pretoria's notorious C-Max prison for research, and got more than she bargained for. "I established a relationship with one of these men, who happened to be one of the most vilified South African serial killers," she says. "The more I got to know him, the more conflicted I became about defining prime evil. Although I knew what he had done, I found my initial impression of him slowly peeling away...