Word: thabo
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...President Thabo Mbeki?s government is committed to fiscal discipline in order to attract desperately needed foreign investment, but its constituents are under mounting pressure in an economy showing no more than 2 percent growth ?- and suffering painful blows in such key sectors as gold mining. "The increase demanded by the striking workers really isn?t much more than the inflation rate," says TIME South Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The government may be forced to compromise and tighten the belt in other areas, such as military expenditure." Absent the moral authority of retired president Nelson Mandela, Mbeki may find...
...more than three times the U.S. rate--and 50,000 new HIV cases emerge each month. Drug prices tend to be high, a holdover from apartheid, when price premiums were needed to encourage foreign companies to override sanctions. Says Mojanku Gumbi, an adviser to South Africa's new President, Thabo Mbeki: "This is not about intellectual property rights. It's about pricing structure and segmenting of markets. We are saying that the drug companies can't make the same profits they made under apartheid...
...THABO MBEKI New South African Prez puts Zulu rivals in Cabinet. Almost as saintly as predecessor...
...Thabo Mbeki, South African President Inheritor, Thinker, Crowd-Pleaser...
Nelson Mandela?s miracle will look easy compared with the feat being attempted by his successor. South Africa?s elder statesman bowed out of the presidency Wednesday as his hand-picked heir, Thabo Mbeki, was inaugurated as head of a state that has abolished apartheid but not yet overcome its legacy. Offering a sober assessment of the dramatic social inequalities that persist in post-apartheid South Africa, Mbeki dedicated his government to overcoming unemployment, hunger, poverty and crime. "The full meaning of liberation will not be realized until our people are freed from the dehumanizing legacy of deprivation we inherited...