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...clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers of the prices; in Osaka. In 1958, Shiraishi opened the first restaurant using his method, which quickly gained popularity throughout Japan and overseas. DIED. GOVAN MBEKI, 91, father of South African President Thabo Mbeki and longtime antiapartheid activist who was jailed in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela, a fellow African National Congress leader; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He was released from prison in 1987 and, seven years later, won a seat in Parliament in South Africa's first all-race elections. DIED...
...Similarly, the Clinton's served an exquisite lamb encrusted in pickled lemons to the visiting king of Morocco last year, and an African-spiced ginger-and-apricot glazed lamb to South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki...
...While Mugabe stonewalls, other African leaders are becoming alarmed by the Zimbabwe situation. South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki admitted in a BBC interview that Mugabe had ignored his attempts at "quiet diplomacy." The powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions has openly condemned the land grabs. Even King Mswati of Swaziland, Africa's only absolute monarch, has said Mugabe "has to be stopped." Two weeks ago, expressing "grave concern" about Zimbabwe, the 14-nation Southern African Development Community moved to set up a team to "engage in dialogue" with Mugabe and his government. There is little evidence the message...
...Tricycle Theatre this week, audiences are responding as enthusiastically to the play, in which Uys transforms himself into a handful of characters - or caricatures - to expose the hypocrisy and ignorance surrounding Africa's AIDS crisis. His onstage incarnations include Dr. Thaboo MacBeki - any resemblance to South African President Thabo Mbeki is entirely intentional - who exclaims: "My mind is made up! Do not confuse me with facts." There's also ex-stripper Bambi Kellerman, who believes that "racism is easier to catch than AIDS." In between characters, Uys tells sobering stories from the AIDS frontline: of schools that refuse to install...
...profoundly important breakthrough. But it couldn't end with simply acknowledging the problem. When he was invited to address last year's international conference on AIDS in Durban, Nkosi not only appealed for AIDS sufferers to be treated with love, warmth and respect, he scolded South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki - who remains skeptical about the accepted wisdom in the medical community that HIV causes AIDS - for failing to provide treatment to the country's AIDS population. Mbeki, who had addressed the conference before the boy, walked out during Nkosi's address, drawing fierce criticism from South Africans increasingly alarmed...