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: HARARE, Zimbabwe
(AP) Zimbabwe’s chief freedom-fighter, Joshua
Nkomo, was buried in a heroes’ cemetery Monday,
anoccasion that prompted the nation’s president to
launch afiery oratory against whites and Western
ers.
For nearly five decades, Nkomo _ who was vice
president when he died of cancer Thursday at age
82 _fought for freedom and economic emancipation
from white domination, President Robert Mugabe
said.
“He wanted the unity of us all, white and black.
Let the white man not stand aloof, arrogant and
conceited ... We want them to open up, to come
forward,” Mugabe said to the thousands of mourn
ers and foreign dignitaries attending the state
funeral.
“We are a proud people. He goes to the ground a
proud man. We will notlethim down,” Mugabe said
of the man he once accused of plotting a coup
against him.
‘Tribaldancersbeatingdrums and carryingshields
and spears led amilitary cortege to Nkomo’s grave
at the Heroes’ Acre, the shrine just outside Harare
where nearly 40 political and former guerrilla
leaders are buried. |
Choirs sang hymns and liberation songs, and air
force fighter jets flew over the shrine, which was ‘
bedecked with portraits of Nkomo bearing the
legend “Father Zimbabwe.” |
In a9O-minute speech duringthe funeral, Mugabe
castigated the nation’s 70,000 whites, whom he said
still retained economic power and control of the
country’s most productive farmland 19 years after
the former Rhodesia gained independence from
Britain.
Mugabe accused Britain, the nation’s former
colonial power, Western donors and the Interna
tional Monetary Fund of setting conditions on aid
that press for political reform and obstruct any
plans to confiscate white-owned farms for landless
blacks.
“The West says if you don’t have opposition
parties you are not democratic. That’s their cul
ture. Let’s not impose democracy on our people,” he
said.
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Gore under fire in South Africa
over high cost of HIV drugs
BSouth African protesters blast the United
States for siding with some of the largest
pharmceutical companies in the world who
are fighting the African government’s at
tempts to bring less expensive forms of the
AIDS-fighting cocktail AZT to its citizens.
The drug companies say the South African
plan would violate the law.
By Pat Reber
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
South African protesters took
aim Monday at health policies
backed by U.S. Vice President
Al Gore, underscoring a trade
dispute between the United
States and South Africa over
the cost of AIDS drugs.
About 300 demonstrators
marched outside the U.S. Con
sulate with signs saying “Gore
Greed Kills” and “Stop U.S.
Bullying of Poor Countries.”
The United States wants
South Africa to amend a 1997
law that grants the govern
ment unspecified power to ob
tain cheaper, generic AIDS
drugs for the country where
more than 3 million people are
HIV positive.
South Africa wants to im
port AIDS medicines from
countries where they are sold
more cheaply under patent
agreements, or license produc
tion within South Africa.
About 40 pharmaceutical
companies worldwide are chal
lenging the law in South Afri
can courts, fearing it may be
used in a way that violates
patentrights.
“It seems the American gov
ernment is simply acting as a
mouthpiece for the large phar
maceutical corporations,” said
Morna Cornell, director of The
AIDS Consortium. “They’re
scared (that) Americans who
pay so much for their medi
cines will turn around and say,
‘Hey, it’s cheaper over there.”
In a letter last month to the
chairman of the Congressional
Black Caucus, Gore said he does
not oppose South Africa’s at
tempts to produce or obtain
generic AIDS medicines aslong
as those efforts do not violate
laws protecting patents.
Gore said he was trying to
resolve the dispute with then-
Vice President Thabo Mbeki,
whois now South Africa’s presi
dent. Mbeki and Gore co-chair
a commission on U.S.-South
African relations.
South African AIDS activists
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government for refusing to pro
vide free AZT for HIV-positive
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cine reduces the transmission
risk to infants.
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ment with a combination of
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SB2O —equivalent to about five
months’ wages, on average.
South Africa’s former health
minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-
Zuma, insisted the government
could not afford such treatment
unless drug companies lowered
their costs.
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A demonstrator protests outside the United States Consulate in Johannesburg
Monday, July 5, 1999, to demand cheaper AIDS drugs. Behind the protest is a
trade dispute over medicine patents between the United States and South
Africa, which has one of the world’s fastest growing AIDS epidemics. The United
States wants South Africa to amend a 1997 law that grants the government
unspecified power to obtain cheaper, generic AIDS drugs for the country where
more than 3 million people are HIV positive. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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