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Busi Bhembe, director of the Swaziland Infant Nutrition Action Network, is one Swazi who is trying to change people's attitudes toward AIDS. She leads a pilot program to help Swazis better understand how the disease affects pregnant women and babies. "The more mothers know about the virus and what it can do, the better they can take care of themselves," says Bhembe, 36, who trained in nutrition at the University of Swaziland in Mbabane before entering health management...
...outbreak of violence around Durban. But there were two possibilities: 1) that the local population had again turned its anger on the Indians as scapegoats or 2) that renewed fighting had broken out between Inkatha, the Zulu political organization, and the U.D.F., whose local membership is largely Swazi. In addition, the fear of losing control of the situation may have led police to use their shotguns too much and too soon. Zulu Chief Buthelezi blamed black nationalist organizations, mainly the U.D.F. and the outlawed A.N.C., for "promoting this black-on-black confrontation, as well as a program of self-laceration...
...past five years, Beckwith and Fisher have been concentrating on sacred rites of passage that mark major life changes: birth, puberty, courtship, healing and death. This fieldwork will continue for one more year; the photographers are currently in the field filming the Swazi reed dance in Swaziland, Ndebele marriages in South Africa and Tuareg seasonal ceremonies in the Sahara. Says Beckwith: "These ceremonies are some of the most powerful events in these tribes. They promote healing and provide a powerful new sense of identity. Some of the rituals we've photographed no longer exist. And many of those that...
...natural imperiousness. Several advisers who have seen the young King in high dudgeon have given him the sobriquet "Fire Eyes." Like his father, Mswati is clearly determined to have a king-size family. He has three wives already, and at this week's annual reed-dance ceremony, in which Swazi maidens take part in a topless parade, he may be induced to choose a fourth...
Mswati is adamant about protecting the sanctity of Swazi tribal rituals. Three months ago the young King arrested the British leader of a fundamentalist Christian movement, the South African-based Rhema Gospel Church, and has kept him locked up ever since. The proselytizing foreigner, who is expected to appear in court this month, faces charges of sedition for daring to suggest that certain Swazi traditions, such as the reed-dance ceremony, might be "ungodly and immoral." As the people of Swaziland are learning, Fire Eyes does not take lightly any kind of disrespect...