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...soothe crying babes. The Winds of Change is a fascinating collection of songs associated with the struggle against apartheid: folk ditties mix with snippets from famous speeches, including British Prime Minister's Harold Macmillan's 1960 "Wind of Change" speech, Nelson Mandela's 1964 Rivonia trial speech and Thabo Mbeki's more recent "I Am an African" speech. You can order them all online at www.africancreammusic.co.za...
...soothe crying babes. The Winds of Change is a fascinating collection of songs associated with the struggle against apartheid: folk ditties mix with snippets from famous speeches, including British Prime Minister's Harold Macmillan's 1960 "Wind of Change" speech, Nelson Mandela's 1964 Rivonia trial speech and Thabo Mbeki's more recent "I Am an African" speech. You can order them all online at www.africancreammusic.co.za...
...tyranny. In the last four years his thugs have killed a dozen whites but more than 300 blacks. Meldrum describes one such victim in the book: "His backless hospital gown revealed two gaping craters where his buttocks should have been." Yet to this day, South African President Thabo Mbeki plays defense lawyer to Mugabe, declaring that "President Mugabe can assist us to confront the problems we have in South Africa." Meldrum quotes the lone voice of Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, on the ominous consequences of Mbeki's attitude. "If we are seemingly indifferent to human-rights violations...
...post-apartheid period—celebrating 10 years this year—as well as persistent problems—economic disparity key among them—that have maintained a discomforting continuity with the past. In the inaugural address for his second term as president, ANC leader Thabo Mbeki made a similar point, noting the brevity of time since 1994 and the end of apartheid, and yet the irreversible path that South Africa now follows: “It is today impossible to imagine a South Africa that is not a democratic South Africa...
...beaten unconscious by her husband, allowed pictures of her bruised and battered face to be published in what she described as a bid to draw attention to the plight of women in the deeply conservative country. A Clean Sweep SOUTH AFRICA The African National Congress Party of President Thabo Mbeki won 70% of the votes in national elections. The two-thirds majority gives the A.N.C. the power to change the constitution, though it says it will not do so. The white-led Democratic Alliance won 12%, while its coalition partner, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, got 7%. Support...