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 Mbeki Leaves 
 Mixed Legacy 

How aloof leader will be remembered

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Sep 20, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thabo Mbeki could never be as beloved as Nelson Mandela, so he didn’t try, writes Mark Tran in the Guardian. Instead, Mbeki projected himself as a competent technocrat: cool, aloof, almost disdainful of popular opinion. He leaves behind a legacy as inscrutable as that persona, with clear victories, like the power-sharing deal he engineered in Zimbabwe, and bizarre failures, like his stance on HIV. More »

More about:  Zimbabwe • South Africa • Thabo Mbeki • HIV/AIDS • legacy • Poverty in South Africa

Mandela's Birthday Wish: Help the Poor

South African legend celebrates 90th, calls on rich to do more

BBC BBC Jul 18, 08 12:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nelson Mandela turned 90 today, and he used the occasion to talk to reporters about the plight of South Africa’s poor, the BBC reports. “If you are poor, you are not likely to live long,” he said. “There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate.” More »

More about:  Africa • South Africa • Nelson Mandela • birthday • Poverty in South Africa

S. Africa to Build Refugee Camps for Foreigners

Affluent nation shocked by settlement plan

New York Times New York Times May 28, 08 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Africa is planning to establish refugee camps for the foreigners driven from their homes by anti-immigrant violence, the New York Times reports. The shelters, dubbed “temporary places of safety,” would initially house the 11,000 people sheltered near police stations across the country, but could eventually be expanded to as many as 70,000. More »

More about:  South Africa • refugee camp • xenophobia • Poverty in South Africa

Twice as Many South Africans Now Subsisting on $1 a Day

Poverty skyrockets in land of HIV and no jobs

BBC BBC Nov 13, 07 3:10 AM CST
(Newser) - The number of South Africans living on less than $1 a day has more than doubled in a decade since shortly after the end of apartheid, reports the BBC. Some 4.2 million people managed to eke out a living on a daily buck in 2005, according to a report of the latest statistics by the South African Institute of Race Relations. Officials attribute the upsurge in poverty to raging unemployment—as high as 26%—and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. More »

More about:  unemployment • HIV/AIDS • Jacob Zuma • Poverty in South Africa • South African elections

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