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The Atlantic Philanthropies in South Africa: Some Reflections on the First 100 Days of the Zuma Government
This week Gerald Kraak, Programme Executive with Atlantic’s Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme and a veteran South African human rights advocate based in our Johannesburg office, shares his thoughts on the first 100 days of President Zuma’s administration. While international coverage of the April…
Author: Gerald Kraak
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Zuma's call to nurses
SANDTON – Nurses should invoke the spirits of their noble predecessors Florence Nightingale, Cecilia Makiwane and Henrietta Stockdale and restore the profession to its rightful place in society, President Jacob Zuma told a Nursing Summit. Two thousand nurses from around the country have converged on…
Author: Health-E
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South Africa Endorses Interim President
by BARRY BEARAK and ALAN COWELL JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s Parliament chose Kgalema Motlanthe as the country’s interim president on Thursday, sealing the political demise of Thabo Mbeki, whose nine-year tenure came to an ignominious end last weekend when the governing African National Congress ousted…
Author: The New York Times
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Clinton sees fresh start with South Africa
Original Source by SHAUN TANDON | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a broad alliance with South Africa on Saturday as she basked in a warm welcome from President Jacob Zuma. An upbeat Clinton shook her hips to the…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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A Growing Chorus In S. Africa Urges Action on Mugabe
by Karin Brulliard and Colum Lynch Kumi Naidoo joined the struggle against apartheid as a teenager, signing up with a movement that fought for human rights, delivered democracy to South Africa and now governs the country. Last week, he began a hunger strike to pressure…
Author: The Washington Post
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In South Africa, rape is linked to manhood
Original Source by CELEAN JACOBSON Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls’ work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So he took the only other course considered “manly” in his rural South African village: He raped…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Study Cites Toll of AIDS Policy in South Africa
Original Source By CELIA W. DUGGER JOHANNESBURG — A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs…
Author: The New York Times
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Anti-apartheid Veterans Left in the Lurch
BILL CORCORAN in Cape Town The South African government has introduced a Bill that will give pension and healthcare rights to the 56,000 registered veterans of the struggle against apartheid, but critics say the scheme does not go far enough IT IS 25 YEARS since…
Author: The Irish Times
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Lancet: Leadership needed to fight SA violence
Original Source Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape are Atlantic grantees. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children USA through a grant from…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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At last, war veterans have reason to smile
Original Source These developments are a direct result of the work of Atlantic’s grantee, the National Peace Accord Trust who have worked together with the Umkhonto We Sizwe Veterans Association to win the support of the Zuma administration for veterans needs. RAYMOND Fihla steps into Ray’s Butchery,…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
