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Miriam Makeba dies at 76; South African singer spent 31 years in exile
Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who for more than half a century brought the intricate rhythms of her native land to millions of listeners around the world and whose role as a spokeswoman against apartheid subjected her to 31 years of exile,...Tags: Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte, United Nations, Heads of State
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Zimbabweans flood South Africa, where compassion has ebbed.
The two men stared at each other for a long moment, captor and captive: a white game farmer named Andre Nienaber, with mirrored sunglasses, neatly pressed khaki clothes and an aura of military precision; and a 16-year-old Zimbabwean orphan named Peter...Tags: United Nations, Heads of State, Police Arrests, Health, Crime, Law and Justice
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S. Africa, told in a pony's tale
HE was a skinny gray Soweto coal horse standing in the road with dull eyes, a filthy coat and his head hanging low. He had raw sores from an ill-fitting harness, hollows between each rib and protruding hips. Just 18 months old, he was too young to be...Tags: Coal, Family, Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Death
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Absolutes and Ambiguity in the Land of Black and White
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLONEHILL, South Africa -- Willie and Celeste van der Merwe, as descendants of the original white settlers of South Africa, were a privileged species. But as they sipped tea amid the blooming flowers on their veranda back in 1992, gazing over 25 acres of...Tags: Family, Riots, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, South Africa
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Jacob Zuma: South Africa's enigma
![Jacob Zuma, the man destined to become South Africa's president after his African National Congress party swept national elections this week, is a polygamist, a former communist revolutionary with little formal education, an alleged taker of lavish bribes and a man so stunningly clueless about his nation's No. 1 public health threat that he once <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4879822.stm">declared his belief</a> that he could fend off HIV by showering after sex. Needless to say, he makes many foreign observers very nervous.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-04/46495403-24164448.jpg "Jacob Zuma, the man destined to become South Africa's president after his African National Congress party swept national elections this week, is a polygamist, a former communist revolutionary with little formal education, an alleged taker of lavish bribes and a man so stunningly clueless about his nation's No. 1 public health threat that he once <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4879822.stm\">declared his belief</a> that he could fend off HIV by showering after sex. Needless to say, he makes many foreign observers very nervous.")
Jacob Zuma, the man destined to become South Africa's president after his African National Congress party swept national elections this week, is a polygamist, a former communist revolutionary with little formal education, an alleged taker of lavish bribes...Tags: Foreign Aid, Nelson Mandela, United Nations, Heads of State, Human Rights
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Old-fashioned phone calls to airline better served by e-mail
Tribune Media ServicesVirgin Atlantic promises Jerry Levine it will send him a paper ticket for his flight from San Francisco to Johannesburg. But when it doesn't, the airline is less than helpful in tracking it down. What should he do now? Q Can you help me with an airline...Tags: Electronics, Travel, Transportation, Trips and Vacations, Air Transportation Industry
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A coup that could turn the tide on AIDS
Over the last decade, South Africa's government has been less than assertive in combating its AIDS epidemic. But the sometimes-comic, often-tragic soap opera that has been the country's response to the problem has taken a spectacular and positive twist:...Tags: Foreign Aid, Music Theater, Hospitals and Clinics, Television, Heads of State
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Pontiff's unprecedented attention won loyalty of many congregants
Sun Foreign StaffSOWETO, South Africa - At yesterday's generally somber Mass, hymn-singing members of the Regina Mundi Catholic Church choir danced a stutter-step down the aisle as congregants slapped hymnbooks to the beat. Just outside the cavernous sanctuary, cars on a...Tags: Civil Rights, Nelson Mandela, John Paul II, Vatican City, Nigeria
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Blue notes in South Africa
Baltimore Sun foreign staffIt is late afternoon and my wife and I are sitting in soft lounge chairs and sipping cocktails from crystal glasses. Outside our window, the dry, golden grasslands of the karoo, interrupted only by windmills and abandoned farmhouses, stretch out for miles...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Bars and Clubs, Weather Reports, South Africa
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Music that cried freedom
Times Staff WriterTrumpeter Hugh Masekela strides purposefully through South Africa's Apartheid Museum, breezing past exhibits on the elaborate racial classification system that relegated black people to the fringes of society, past photographs of bodies of unarmed...Tags: Music Theater, Colleges and Universities, Sundance Film Festival, Activism, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Stander'
!["Stander" opens with an aerial shot of Johannesburg, South Africa, its skyline interchangeable with that of many major U.S. cities — until the shot abruptly gives way to the shanty rooftops of black townships, as potent an image of the severe inequities of apartheid as imaginable. With crisp swiftness and economy, director Bronwen Hughes takes us into the soon-to-crumble life of Andre Stander (Thomas Jane), the Johannesburg police force's youngest captain of detectives.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-08/13709840.jpg ""Stander\" opens with an aerial shot of Johannesburg, South Africa, its skyline interchangeable with that of many major U.S. cities — until the shot abruptly gives way to the shanty rooftops of black townships, as potent an image of the severe inequities of apartheid as imaginable. With crisp swiftness and economy, director Bronwen Hughes takes us into the soon-to-crumble life of Andre Stander (Thomas Jane), the Johannesburg police force's youngest captain of detectives.")
Times Staff Writer"Stander" opens with an aerial shot of Johannesburg, South Africa, its skyline interchangeable with that of many major U.S. cities — until the shot abruptly gives way to the shanty rooftops of black townships, as potent an image of the severe...Tags: Sex, Crimes, Butch Cassidy, Drama (genre), Organized Crime
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Many fear Mandela mania is too much of a good thing
Sun Foreign StaffJOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- On a recent sunny afternoon, several hundred South African celebrities, business leaders and other guests raised flutes of champagne to celebrate the unveiling of a 20-foot-high bronze statue of Nelson Mandela at one of...Tags: Sculpture, Nelson Mandela, Newspaper and Magazine, Hospitals and Clinics, Finance
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