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Recent News Headlines : Nelson Mandela

SOUTH AFRICA'S STUDENT PROTESTS ARE PART OF A MUCH BIGGER STRUGGLE

Free education is a bigger issue than just for universities...
23rd September, 2016 333

ALLISTER HADDON SPARKS WAS BORN IN CATHCART, IN SOUTH AFRICA'S EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, ON MARCH 10, 1933.

Mr. Sparks was a fifth-generation white, English-speaking South African and grew up on a farm in a community where all of his playmates were black...
21st September, 2016 512

SOUTH AFRICA HAS BARRED A US PASTOR FOR HIS HOMOPHOBIC ORLANDO SHOOTING COMMENTS

Anderson was banned after South Africa's LGBTQI community lobbied the South African government to revoke his visa exempt status as an American visitor...
16th September, 2016 302

SOUTH AFRICA BARS AMERICAN PASTOR WHO CALLS GAY PEOPLE 'PERVERTS'

A recent survey of South Africans' attitudes toward homosexuality and gender nonconformity offered a mixed bag of perspectives...
14th September, 2016 1475

PROTESTS OVER BLACK GIRLS' HAIR REKINDLE DEBATE ABOUT RACISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Outrage over the Pretoria girls' claims is part of a broader debate that has gained traction in South Africa in the past year...
3rd September, 2016 2773

SOUTH AFRICAN OPERA HOUSE ACCUSED OF EXPLOITING BLACK SINGERS

Chorus members were dismissed after challenging discrepancies in pay for appearing abroad in opera set in colonial Africa...
1st September, 2016 8

ROBBEN ISLAND IN SOUTH AFRICA IS GETTING TO BE NOTORIOUS AGAIN -- AND THIS TIME IT'S NOT FOR RACIAL OPPRESSION.

What in the World Flocking to Robben Island Tourists by Day Poachers by Night...
15th August, 2016 112

THE OPPOSITION DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE WAS CHALLENGING THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS IN BOTH MUNICIPALITIES.

The results remained too close to call in the country's largest city, Johannesburg, and the Tshwane metropolitan area around the capital, Pretoria...
5th August, 2016 1

THE "XII" BEETLE IS NOT THE FIRST NEW SPECIES TO BE NAMED AFTER A HEAD OF STATE.

But Chinese censors have ordered that all references to Wang's bug be removed from the internet, the China Digital Times said...
12th July, 2016 66

SOUTH AFRICA HAS NOT BEEN KNOWN TO BE A HUB OF ISLAMIC STATE ACTIVITY.

South Africa Charges 4 of Plotting to Aid ISIS...
11th July, 2016 106

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RELATED STORIES SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID-ERA DEATH SQUAD COMMANDER EUGENE DE KOCK HAS BEEN GRANTED PAROLE AFTER 20 YEARS IN JAIL.

Mail online uk former leader of south african apartheid death squad eugene de kock granted parole 16 mins ago...
30th January, 2015 2022

THE DALAI LAMA HAS NOT HAD A PAPAL AUDIENCE SINCE AN ENCOUNTER WITH BENEDICT IN 2006.

The action provoked a boycott by other Nobel laureates...
12th December, 2014 1774

MS. NIVYABANDI ALSO FLED BURUNDI IN 1993, WHEN CIVIL WAR ERUPTED AFTER SOLDIERS FROM THE COUNTRY'S TUTSI MINORITY ASSASSINATED THE FIRST PRESIDENT ELECTED FROM THE HUTU MAJORITY.

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20th July, 2015 904

OCCUPY PROTESTERS CONVERGE ON CENTRAL LONDON TO SET UP CAMP OUTSIDE WESTMINSTER

Anthony Devlin PA Wire Police surround Parliament Square as protestors from the Occupy group hold a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament, London...
24th November, 2014 809

STUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA PROTEST SLOW PACE OF CHANGE

Mr. Mahapa 23 grew up in a village with only black South Africans and he graduated at the top of his high school class...
9th September, 2015 717

HIS CRIMES BECAME EMBLEMATIC OF SOME OF THE WORST ABUSES IN THE APARTHEID ERA.

De Kock testified before the reconciliation commission after his conviction in 1996 on 89 charges that earned him a prison sentence of two life terms plus 212 years...
31st January, 2015 702

HIS CRIMES BECAME EMBLEMATIC OF SOME OF THE WORST ABUSES IN THE APARTHEID ERA.

De Kock testified before the reconciliation commission after his conviction in 1996 on 89 charges that earned him a prison sentence of two life terms plus 212 years...
31st January, 2015 702

BUT ZONGEZILE MAKHUBO INSISTS THAT, DESPITE ALL THE PROBLEMS FACING SOUTH AFRICA AND SOWETO 40 YEARS AFTER THE UPRISING, HE IS HOPEFUL.

The uprising means different things for different people, says Khwezi Gule, chief curator of the Hector Pieterson museum and memorial in Soweto...
16th June, 2016 591

MASUTHA SAID DE KOCK HAD ASSISTED AUTHORITIES TO TRACE ACTIVISTS WHO WENT MISSING DURING APARTHEID.

"It's mixed feelings, which is something we've gotten used to as South Africans," Makue told The Associated Press in a telephone interview...
30th January, 2015 508

BERESFORD, KNOWN FOR HIS WRITING ABOUT THE NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES AND THE END OF APARTHEID, HAS DIED IN JOHANNESBURG

But it was after he was appointed Irish correspondent that his work became more widely acknowledged...
22nd April, 2016 388

IN 1972, COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS MARY CHAMBERLAIN AND CAREY HARRISON SAILED FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

One day on Hampstead Heath in London nearly 50 years ago, Ronnie Kasrils nearly blew himself up...
6th December, 2015 382

WHEN JOURNALIST RON NIXON WAS GROWING UP AS A YOUNG BLACK CHILD IN THE US HIS GRANDMOTHER GAVE HIM A MAGAZINE ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA.

Selling apartheid new book lays bare south africa's propaganda war...
2nd September, 2015 364

MANDELA BECAME PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA IN 1994 BUT RETIRED FROM POLITICS IN 1999 AT AGE 80 AND DIED IN 2013.

According to Rickard, Mandela had been posing as a chauffeur when he was stopped in Durban and arrested...
16th May, 2016 345

GIFT OF THE GIVERS, A SOUTH AFRICAN CHARITY WHICH USUALLY NEGOTIATES HOSTAGE RELEASES AS WELL AS CONDUCTING AID DROPS, WAS CONTACTED BY MR JOOSUB FOR HELP ALERTING THE AUTHORITIES.

"Nine British nationals, and two dual British-South African nationals have been detained in northern China...
14th July, 2015 284

5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN DAVOS

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19th January, 2015 272

SELEBI WAS APPOINTED POLICE COMMISSIONER IN 2000 BY THABO MBEKI, SOUTH AFRICA'S PRESIDENT.

He was also a former member of South Africa's parliament, a former South African ambassador to the United Nations and a former president of Interpol...
24th January, 2015 170

JOHANNESBURG AP -- DESMOND TUTU'S FOUNDATION SAYS THE RETIRED ARCHBISHOP HAS COMPLETED TREATMENT FOR AN INFECTION BUT WILL REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION.

JOHANNESBURG AP Desmond Tutu's foundation says the retired archbishop has completed treatment for an infection but will remain in the hospital for observation...
19th July, 2015 166

ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU WAS ADMITTED TO A CAPE TOWN HOSPITAL ON TUESDAY FOR TREATMENT TO A PERSISTENT INFECTION ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT ISSUED ON TUESDAY.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was admitted to a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday for treatment to a persistent infection, according to a statement issued on Tuesday...
14th July, 2015 162

SHOULD SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS BE TAUGHT IN AFRICA'S SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES?

This is not the case in neighbouring South Africa, where there are again many different Shakespeares...
7th August, 2015 149

HOW OSCAR PISTORIUS'S RELEASE FROM PRISON WAS BLOCKED

Masutha met them, considered the petition, scrutinised Pistorius's case and said he had realised the parole board had erred...
24th August, 2015 148

EUGENE DE KOCK TO BE FREED IS 20 YEARS IN JAIL ENOUGH FOR APARTHEID'S WORST OFFENDER?

Mandela died two years ago but the extraordinary big-heartedness of black South Africans lives on...
31st January, 2015 137

SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID DEATH SQUAD LEADER EUGENE DE KOCK GRANTED PAROLE AFTER MORE THAN 20 YEARS IN PRISON

'Prime Evil' apartheid killer Eugene de Kock gets parole...
30th January, 2015 136

SOUTH AFRICA'S ANC ACCUSES US DIPLOMATS OF PURSUING REGIME CHANGE

South Africa's ruling party has accused US diplomats of irregular activities, claiming that Washington is trying to foment regime change inside the country...
22nd February, 2016 124

SOUTH AFRICA DENIES 'IMMINENT' ISIL ATTACK ON COUNTRY

At least three South Africans have died while fighting in Syria but most had traveled as non-combatants...
6th June, 2016 98

BUT SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW RULERS SEEM CONVINCED THAT 20 YEARS IN JAIL HAS BROUGHT GENUINE REPENTANCE.

Eugene de Kock to be freed Is 20 years in jail enough for apartheida??s worst offender?...
31st January, 2015 88

SOUTH AFRICA DEBATES TABOO QUESTION WAS MANDELA A SELLOUT?

But two years after his death, a heated debate has emerged in South Africa that questions part of this towering legacy was Mandela a sellout?...
14th December, 2015 77

MANDELA AND KATHRADA WERE AMONG EIGHT AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) ACTIVISTS SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE APARTHEID GOVERNMENT DURING THE 1963-1964 RIVONIA TRIAL.

Source: Agencies President claims he did not act dishonestly but admits conduct during scandal was "inconsistent" with the constitution...
3rd April, 2016 71

MR. WALUS'S CO-CONSPIRATOR, MR. DERBY-LEWIS, WHO HAS LUNG CANCER, WAS PAROLED ON MEDICAL GROUNDS LAST JUNE.

South Africa has high levels of inequality, with high unemployment rates among blacks and wealth concentrated among whites and a small black elite...
11th March, 2016 64

KING BUYELEKHAYA DALINDYEBO REPORTED TO PRISON AFTER HIS LEGAL ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN HIS CONVICTION FAILED.

South Africa has 10 officially recognised monarchs representing different ethnic groups and clans...
31st December, 2015 58

LOOK AT IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO ACTUALLY CHANGE PERCEPTION OF ALBINISM.

Teachers misread her poor eyesight -- a side effect of albinism -- as her being mentally challenged...
28th June, 2015 55

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SOUTH AFRICAS RULING PARTY TIGHTENS GRIP DESPITE LOSS

The liberation movements that helped free much of southern Africa decades ago are still in power -- in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique and Angola...
5th September, 2016 142

SOUTH AFRICA EARLY MUNICIPAL RESULTS SHOW ANC WEAKENED

South Africa's electoral commission said late Wednesday voting had proceeded smoothly and without major incident...
4th August, 2016 59

PISTORIUS JAILED FOR SIX YEARS FOR STEENKAMP MURDER

Pistorius, who fatally shot his girlfriend four times through a toilet door, has already served 12 months in prison for her death...
7th July, 2016 7

OSCAR PISTORIUS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS JAIL FOR REEVA STEENKAMP MURDER

Pistorius was found guilty of murdering Steenkamp by an appeals court last December...
6th July, 2016 57

SOUTH AFRICAN PARALYMPIC ATHLETE OSCAR PISTORIUS SITS IN THE DOCK DURING HIS ONGOING MURDER TRIAL IN PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, ON JUNE 30, 2014.

Both carry a prison sentence of up to five years...
6th July, 2016 111

SOUTH AFRICAN MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR MTN FUELED THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY IN NORTHEAST NIGERIA BY FAILING TO DISCONNECT MILLIONS OF UNREGISTERED USERS, PRES

As Zuma visits, Buhari blasts unregistered South African mobiles for aiding Boko Haram...
9th March, 2016 1

SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA HAS LONG BEEN CRITICIZED FOR HIS LEADERSHIP ABILITIES.

Davos 2016 South African President Zuma Slammed For Missing Key Panel On Africa At World Economic Forum...
22nd January, 2016 7

ALL OF BOLIN'S CONVICTIONS WERE REVERSED AT LEAST TWICE DUE TO LEGAL ERRORS, BUT NEW JURIES FOUND HIM GUILTY AGAIN IN ALL THREE CASES.

Carnival worker who killed three women executed in Florida...
8th January, 2016 9

SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA DENIES AFFAIR WITH AIRLINE BOSS

Zuma dismissed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on Wednesday...
12th December, 2015 7

SOUTH AFRICA COURT SENTENCES 8 EX-POLICEMEN IN IMMIGRANTS MURDER

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, a sociologist who studies migrants in South Africa, said the government has tended to overestimate the number of migrants...
11th November, 2015 275

SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT RULES OUT UNIVERSITY FEE RISE AFTER FEESMUSTFALL PROTESTS

South African president Jacob Zuma rules out university fee rise after protests...
23rd October, 2015 14

SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT AGREES TO UNIVERSITY FEE FREEZE AFTER PROTESTS

Video South African president agrees to university fee freeze after protests...
23rd October, 2015 165

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