AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-83804272/message-books.html" title="Facts and information about The Message of the Books.">The Message of the Books.</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Newsweek International are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
The Message of the Books.
NEWSWEEK's story "The Lonely Rebel" (World Affairs, March 4), seeking to rubbish President Thabo Mbeki, begs one question: why? Rudimentary fact checking would have averted errors; e.g., I do not chair the cabinet's AIDS panel of ministers, and I see the president by appointment, not over "sundowners."
Throughout the article there is a narrow, gossipy focus, complete with tall Scotches and beautiful (though distant past) blondes. This says nothing about the policies, programs and achievements of the government that Mbeki leads.
The true South African context is the positive response to the president's recent State of the Nation speech and the strong ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- The military defeat of the South Africans in Angola.
- Magazine article from: Monthly Review Campbell, Horace April 1, 1989 700+ words
...basis for an independent Namibia, the South Africans agreed to withdraw from the territory...high casualty rate among whites, the South Africans reached such a desperate situation...February 25, and March 23. The South Africans were repulsed with heavy losses, and...
- 100,000 South Africans Call on GSK to Create AIDS Treatment Fund Reports NetCom...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire Europe November 17, 2004 700+ words
...Thursday Nov. 18th; More than 100,000 South Africans Signed Petitions Calling on Drug Giant...of the petitions signed by 100,000 South Africans will be carried in the march &...harm to many thousands of HIV positive South Africans and their families. Immediately following...
- Survey shows South Africans think race relations have improved.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Maykuth, Andrew August 28, 2001 700+ words
...cleaved by growing racial divides, South Africans tend to see race relations as improving...attention here and internationally, most South Africans are more worried about jobs and schools...Race Relations, found that half of South Africans think race relations have improved...
- UPDATE - 100,000 South Africans Call on Drug Giant Glaxo to Create AIDS...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire Europe November 18, 2004 700+ words
...Thursday Nov. 18th; More than 100,000 South Africans Signed Petitions Calling on Drug Giant...of the petitions signed by 100,000 South Africans will be carried in the march &...harm to many thousands of HIV positive South Africans and their families. Immediately following...
- South Africans slow to buy tickets: the South African government is fretting...
- Magazine article from: African Business Nevin, Tom April 1, 2009 700+ words
...but only 20% of those were bought by South Africans. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Although...strong worldwide, the response from South Africans to purchase tickets is slow," says...sold so far have been purchased by South Africans, indicating that about 80% of tickets...
- Black South Africans reclaim their homeland
- Newspaper article from: Washington Afro-American Willie A. Givens May 7, 1994 700+ words
...Washington Afro-American 05-07-1994 Black South Africans reclaim their homeland. A gigantic step in...finally have a government that represents all South Africans. All South Africans are now free.," he said. "We have a new...
- What African-Americans can learn from South Africans and vice versa. (Special...
- Magazine article from: Ebony Robinson, Randall Dinkins, David N. Jones, Elaine R. Hatcher, Richard G. August 1, 1994 700+ words
...Americans have demonstrated an affinity for South Africans. As part of the global family of the...shared heritage and common bonds. As South Africans rejoiced throughout the recent inaugural...hands of brotherhood and sisterhood to South Africans, and have been rewarded with a ...
- 72% of South Africans worried about guns.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Pretoria News (South Africa) June 20, 2006 700+ words
...BONILE NGQIYAZA More than half of South Africans, or 54% of the population, have...showed that an overwhelming 72% of South Africans canvassed said they were "worried...s insecurity. An average of 53% South Africans said it was "too easy to obtain a...
