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...screen, she will come across as a perky, fun-loving and healthy HIV-positive character with a wealth of information about HIV/AIDS to share with her inquisitive friends. "She's emotionally and intellectually intelligent, with an insight that goes beyond her five years," says Britain. Kami - from a Tswana tribal word for "acceptance" - will challenge the stereotype of the HIV-infected sickly child and focus instead on fun and friendliness. She will also introduce basic information and promote discussion about such uncuddly issues as death and social ostracism. In an episode next month, Kami has to deal with rejection...
Maitisong, a Tswana word meaning "entertainers", concludes a two-part series Footsteps Through Africa...
Cobus Bodenstein, Johannesburg Sunday Times: "I took a few overalls of the whole scene. I was wondering what to do next. ((Then)) I heard a shot and saw a head jump. I lifted the camera and started shooting until the ((shooter)) turned on us, screaming in Tswana, pointing the rifle at us. Ten of his colleagues seemed to cock their rifles. So we ran away. I knew that lunacy was playing a big role . . . If any journalist, especially a white journalist, would have so much as touched those people, we would have died with them. I don't believe...
...same evening, Botha appeared on television channels that broadcast in the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu languages and told their predominantly black viewers, "The time has come for us South Africans to join together to negotiate the structures that we want." From its headquarters in neighboring Zambia, however, the A.N.C. dismissed Botha's overtures, which it said demonstrated that he was "committed to the maintenance of white-minority domination...
...occupy only about 15% of the land. Moreover, the lines have been carefully drawn to leave most of South Africa's industrial areas and its diamond and gold mines in the hands of the 4.5 million whites. The three homelands that have already declared their "independence" - Transkei, Bophutha Tswana and Venda-are still wards of Pretoria, dependent on South Africa for more than two-thirds of their income...