Word: inkatha
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...lack of political leadership, amid a solid institutional framework, that inhibits the country's decisive response to the hiv/aids pandemic, structural unemployment and abject poverty. What this country, and indeed the continent, needs is probably a well-balanced combination of the two. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi M.P. President of the Inkatha Freedom Party Ulundi, South Africa Gender Sensitivity for All In the interview with newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [Nov. 28], Time asked, "Is there something extra you bring to the job as a woman?" She responded, "Sensitivity to human needs. Maybe that comes from being a mother...
...sealed off by soldiers and police, journalists were unable to explore the reasons for the outbreak of violence around Durban. But there were two possibilities: 1) that the local population had again turned its anger on the Indians as scapegoats or 2) that renewed fighting had broken out between Inkatha, the Zulu political organization, and the U.D.F., whose local membership is largely Swazi. In addition, the fear of losing control of the situation may have led police to use their shotguns too much and too soon. Zulu Chief Buthelezi blamed black nationalist organizations, mainly the U.D.F. and the outlawed A.N.C...
...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 for the New National Party, the reconstituted former apartheid ruling party, collapsed, falling from 7% to less than 2%. MEANWHILE IN CANADA ... Drive Softly, Safely Researchers in Newfoundland have found that listening to loud, up-tempo music while driving slows motorists' reaction time...