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contents

New AfRIcAN The bestselling pan-African magazine, founded in 1966 AUGUST/SePTeMBeR 2008 ISSUe 476 www.AfRIcASIA.cOM

Letters 4 Your news and views

Baffour’s Beefs 8 The core issue in Zimbabwe

cover story 10 Africa: The last mercenary?

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Africa The last mercenary? > What does the adventure of Simon Mann and his band of latter-day mercenaries who plotted to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, teach Africa and the world? Will they be the last mercenaries to attack Africa? We have it covered here.

features 16 South Africa: Judges at war 20 Zimbabwe: Hope springs eternal 23 Zimbabwe: Better days lie ahead – Tsvangirai 24 Zimbabwe: Put national interest fi rst – Mutambara 26 Zimbabwe: We are against sanctions – CZ1 28 Nigeria: Open for business 32 Zambia: Succession debate creates controversy 34 Diego Garcia: Mounting hope for expelled islanders 38 Liberia/Sierra Leone: Taylor’s prophecy comes true 40 Uganda: What’s the ICC up to? 42 Sudan: Pessimism hangs over Darfur 44 Botswana: Mining nothing, displacing no one? 48 Ghana: The sense behind our nonsense 52 Africa/eU: No salvation in EPAs 54 Coming soon, African security council

Opinion 56 Africans are not democratically defi cient

Lest we forget 82 Becoming ‘European’ (2)

Gallery 84 CBC African Business Awards

Sports 102 Africa at the Beijing Olympics 20

Zimbabwe Hope springs eternal > For the fi rst time since the formation of the opposition MDC party in September 1999, its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, shook hands with President Robert Mugabe on 21 July 2008, paving the way for national dialogue. So, is there light – at last – at the end of Zimbabwe’s tunnel? 20 Hope springs eternal > For the fi rst time since the of the opposition MDC party in September 1999, its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, shook hands with President Robert Mugabe on 21 July 2008, paving the way for national dialogue. So, is there light – at last – at the end of Zimbabwe’s tunnel?

Not in Black or white 86 We live the revolution!

focus 92 Corporate Social Responsibility

Diaspora 98 west: Spare the rod and spoil the child?

at the end of Zimbabwe’s tunnel?at the end of Zimbabwe’s tunnel?

at the end of Zimbabwe’s tunnel?at the end of Zimbabwe’s tunnel?

New African Woman 59 Editorial: What’s the ideal African beauty? 60 Liya Kebede, good looks, doing good 64 In Vogue, token blackness? 68 Wow factor: Chunky jewellery 72 The indomitable Williams sisters 76 Hope Sadza, bridging the education divide 78 Parenting: The art of juggling 80 Empower yourself

the ideal African beauty? Liya Kebede, good looks,

the ideal African beauty? Liya Kebede, good looks,

, token blackness?

, token blackness? Wow factor: Chunky jewellery

FRE EINSI DEINSIDESeco nd Second i ssu e

FRE EINSI DESeco nd i ssu e

10 G REA T WA YS T O EM POW ER YO URSE LF

FASHION HOT ACCESSORIES

LOOKING GOOD, DOING GOOD LIYA KEBEDE

VOGUE’S TOKEN OF BLACKNESS

INDOMITABLE THE WILLIAMS SISTERS

FEATURE

LIYA KEBEDE LOOKING GOOD, DOING GOOD

She has been the face of Gucci, Estéée Lauder, and Fendi et al and graced numerous high-profile international women magazine covers. Yet closest to her heart is the plight of women and children, particularly in Africa. Regina Jere-Malanda looks at the fabulous life of the fabulous Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede whose stirring mission to seek change and improve the health and well being of mothers and children is admirably moving. Famous for her haunting, yet angelic beauty, Liya Kebede truly embodies the clichéé “not just a pretty face”. Indeed there is more to this beauty and mother of two than what most Hollywood superstars could boast of. She is proof that the life of a supermodel is not just about pouting, photoshoots, or strutting on those famous catwalks in designer gear.

clichéé “not just a pretty face”. Indeed there is more to this beauty and mother of two than what most Hollywood superstars could boast of. She is proof that the life of a supermodel is not just about pouting, photoshoots, or strutting on those famous catwalks in designer gear.

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