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Thursday, December 18, 1997
Zimbabwe seek abortions for HIV moms
Briefs
PAN-AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY
HARARE, Zimbal re -
Pregnant mothers who have
been diagnosed as HIV positive
should have a choice of abortion
or giving birth, says the Women
and AIDS Support Network.
The network has prepared a
document about the abortion
assue and expects to gather the
signature 30,000 women in
Zimbabwe in support. Director
Priscdlah Misihairambi says her
organization is not taking sides
but realizes that pregnant
women who are HIV positive
have no clear choice under the
current health legislation.
Abortion is illegal in Zimbabwe
except in cases of rape and incest
and when pregnancy endemgers
the life of the mother and the
fetus.
“We know that abortion is tak
ing place in Zimbabwe,” says
Misihairambi. In 1993, local
news reports revealed that sever
al abortions were conducted on
HIV-infected women by medical
doctors who misinterpreted the
law. Official statistics say that
Zimbabwe has the second highest
HIV infection rate in Africa after
Zambia, with one person per
1,000. “All we are saying is that
as far as the Act is concerned it
must explicitly mention HIV and
that women who want to carry
out an abortion should have the
choice to do so.”
Bruce Dawu
Namibian ex-fighters press
government for jobs
WINDHOEK, Namibia -
Demonstrations by ex-fighters of
the ruling South West Africa
People's Organization demand
ing jobs from the government are
becoming the most pressing polit
ical problem. Despite govern
ment statements that the former
fighters have to wait as they can
not be provided with jobs
overnight, they continue to agi
tate. Since independence in 1990
most ex-combatants have been
unemployed.
“We are not against our govern
ment. We just want to be given
jobs. We are now tired. Seven
years without a job is too much,”
says Petrus Josef, leader of about
700 SWAPO ex-fighters who have
been camping at Parliament
Gardens, a few meters from the
residency of President Sam
Nujoma. They marched to the
gardens on Oct. 23 and vowed not
to leave until they are provided
with jobs. Nathaniel Mazuilih, a
SWAPO member of parliament,
says the government is “trying its
best to identify jobs and training
opportunities.” President
Diversity good; means iffy
Poll: Most don’t
like race-based
preferences
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Most
Americans support racial
diversity in schools and the
workplace but are against
some of the methods used to
achieve it, according to a New
York Times-CBS News poll
released this week.
Of those surveyed, most were
against ending affirmative
action immediately but disap
proved of using race as a factor
in hiring and school admis
sions.
But Americans seemed to
support affirmative action
based on economic class, with
the majority of blacks and
whites saying they favored
policies giving preferential
treatment in college admis
sions and employment to poor
people over wealthier citizens.
Asked whether affirmative
action programs should be
ended now, phased out or con
tinued, just 12 percent of those
polled - 13 percent of whites
and less than 1 percent of
blacks - said they should be
ended now. Forty percent (45
percent of whites, 17 percent of
blacks) favored phasing out the
programs, and 41 percent (35
percent of whites, 80 percent of
blacks) said they should be con
tinued.
The poll focused on the atti
tudes of white and black
Americans. Members of other
minority groups were surveyed,
but their numbers were not
large enough to provide a sta
tistically reliable snapshot of
their attitudes, the Times said.
The poll showed that whites
with college degrees were more
likely to favor ending affirma
tive .gptifiR (fey ® margin of 57
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Nujoma has, on numerous occa
sions, assured the former fighters
that jobs will be found for them
and that they will be recruited for
the renovation of schools, build
ing of canals, and road work. He
said jobs will be assigned to those
unemployed former fighters
whose names have been compiled
by the Social Integration
Program of Ex-combatants.
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percent to 34 percent) than
those with high school degrees
or less (31 percent favor abol
ishing, 51 percent oppose).
People with annual incomes
above $50,000 were more likely
to support ending affirmative
action than those who make
$30,000 a year or less.
When the Times-CBS survey
first began asking about racial
preferences in 1985, Americans
were evenly divided. But opin
ion turned overwhelmingly
against racial preferences in
the late 1980s, was particularly
hostile toward them in the
recessionary years of the early
1990s and has remained nega
tive ever since, the newspaper
said.
The Times-CBS poll, a nation
wide telephone survey of 1,258
adults, was conducted Dec. 6-9.
It has a margin of sampling
error of plus or minus 3 per
centage points.
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