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/ 23 December 2007

Umshini Wami echoes through SA

<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Some call it brainless, others inappropriate in the post-apartheid era but Jacob Zuma, the new leader of the African National Congress, is in no mood to stop singing his signature <i>Umshini Wami</i>. "If you erase the songs, you erase the record of history," said Zuma of the anthem.

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/ 13 August 2007

Analysts: Mbeki bares fangs in firing Nozizwe

In sacking his deputy health minister, a vocal critic of the government’s Aids policies, South African President Thabo Mbeki has finally bared his authoritarian fangs, analysts said. Mbeki last week dismissed Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, who had campaigned vigorously for a more scientific approach to the battle against HIV/Aids.