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...suspected links to ministers close to Mugabe. "I would like to see a more vigorous effort on the part of the government in the E.U. and our government to track down Robert Mugabe's assets," said Royce, adding that he thought African governments, in particular South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, were not sufficiently critical of Zimbabwe's human-rights record. And in South Africa two weeks ago the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Party, Tony Leon, asked the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into Mugabe's human-rights record. As of late last week Leon...
...been a rare commodity in recent years, Zimbabweans could scarcely believe their luck last week when the police and courts allowed the Daily News, the country's only independent daily newspaper, to publish for the first time in four months. It was the same day South African President Thabo Mbeki told visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder that Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government would resume talks with the embattled opposition. "I am quite certain they will negotiate and will find an agreement. We will work with them," Mbeki said. But it was too good to be true. Harare...
...commission with its supporters, reopened voter registration without telling the MDC and limited the number of polling stations in cities, where the opposition is strongest. But almost nobody expects a Zimbabwean court to rule against Mugabe, and the MDC's real audience will be in South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has been one of the President's most faithful apologists. "As long as Mugabe thinks he is being supported by his African brothers, he will see himself as a victim, not as the perpetrator," says MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. "If the African countries were to stop supporting Mugabe, there...
...surprise is that one of those countries is South Africa--whose president, Thabo Mbeki, has resisted developing a national plan to provide antiretroviral drugs and has even questioned the link between HIV and AIDS. What changed his mind? "You can only stay in denial so long," Clinton told TIME. "He was exposed to two articles by people--I'm ashamed to say they were Americans--who said HIV doesn't cause AIDS, and the medicine could kill you. He also had a legitimate issue: South Africa had given out anti-TB medicine without a proper protocol and they wound...
South African President Thabo Mbeki had resisted developing a national plan to provide antiretroviral drugs and even questioned the link between HIV and AIDS . What brought him around? There was always in South Africa - including in the government - people who really wanted to do something. I understood how President Mbeki got to where...