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Meeting with Ela Gandhi - An Interview with the Granddaughter of Mohandas Gandhi

Nicolas Rossier | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Read More: African National Congress, India, Mahatma Gandhi, Ela Gandhi, Apartheid, De Klerk, F.W. De Klerk, History, Anc, Nelson Mandela South Africa, World News, Africa, Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Tutu, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Tutu, Freedom, Cape Town-South Africa, Politics News
Nicolas Rossier

Ela Gandhi is the granddaughter of Mohandas Gandhi, also known as 'Mahatma' (great soul) Gandhi, the man who famously led Indians to independence from their British colonizers in 1946. She was born in 1940 in the Phoenix Settlement in the Inanda district of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

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S. Africa Prez: We Must Root Out Corruption

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 08.27.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: African National Congress, Jacob Zuma ANC, ANC Corruption, South Africa, Jacob Zuma Corruption Speech, Jacob Zuma, Jacob Zuma African National Congress, Anc, Jacob Zuma Corruption, Black Voices News

JOHANNESBURG -- The century-old African National Congress, which led the victory over apartheid 18 years ago and has governed South Africa since, must...

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South Africa's Political Wars Resemble Our Own

Danny Schechter | Posted 08.26.2012 | Politics
Read More: Thabo Mbeki, Tokyo Sexwale, Anc, Nelson Mandela, Kglalema Mothlane, Jacobe Zuma, South Africa Politics, South Africa, Politics News
Danny Schechter

When I came to South Africa, I thought I was escaping the way our news programs are totally dominated by political coverage even though the election is months away.

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On Changing Direction: What FW De Klerk Taught Me About Leadership

Antonio Lucio | Posted 08.05.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Fw De Klerk, South Africa, Mandela, Multiculturalism, Anc, Apartheid, Latino Voices News
Antonio Lucio

Leaders know how to read the winds of change and know when to change course. Importantly, leaders know failure when they see it and acknowledge that "failure cannot be improved".

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Guess What Just Turned 100

AP | By ED BROWN | Posted 03.09.2012 | World
Read More: Anc Anniversary, South Africa, Video, Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, Anc Celebrations, Anc, Anc-100-Years, African National Congress, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela Party, World News

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa -- Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revelers waved the green and gold colors of the African National Congress as A...

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2012 Media Windfalls to Watch For

David Tereshchuk | Posted 03.06.2012 | Media
Read More: Anc, Bruce Ismay, African National Congress, Mandela, Centenary, Anc Anniversary, Mandela Funeral, Titanic Centenary, Anc Centenary, Media News
David Tereshchuk

This coming weekend, on January 8th, I foresee that just a few dedicated media practitioners outside of Africa will mark the passing of a hundred years since the hot and dusty day when Nelson Mandela's movement, the African National Congress, was first formed.

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TIMELINE: South Africa's ANC Party Celebrates 100 Years

AP | By MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 03.06.2012 | World
Read More: Anc Anniversary, Anc South Africa, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Video, Anc, Anc 100 Year Celebration, Anc 100 Years, Nelson Mandela South Africa, Nelson Mandela Anc, World News

JOHANNESBURG -- Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, an...

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Clamp-down on Free Press... From Winners of Freedom!

David Tereshchuk | Posted 01.31.2012 | World
Read More: Classified Documents, South Africa, Media Freedom, Anc, Free Speech, Press Gag, State Information, Journalism, Mandela, World News
David Tereshchuk

South Africa's media are among the most vibrant and adventurous in the world. Currently, though, journalists in this still-young democracy, the so-called Rainbow Nation, appear to be living in a state of shock and outrage.

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South Africa's Sushi Scandal: A Timeline

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Law, Phumla Matjila, Zwelinzima Vavi, Kenny Kunene, Bloggers, African National Congress, George Clooney, ZAR Club, Nyotaimori, Cape Town, Japan, Sashimi, Johannesburg, Models, South Africa, Brad Pitt, Anc, Blogger, African National Congress Youth League, Abdul Madoda Milazi, Fish, Carlos Amato, Sushi, Gwede Mantashe, Peter Delmar, The Times, World News
Danny Groner

South Africa's governing party has declared that eating sushi off the body of a model in a bikini is "politically incorrect." Here, a timeline of the events that have led up to today's announcement.

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Elected D.C. Students Begin to Bridge Representation Gap

Stefanie Dazio | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Dc Students Speak, Anc, Marcus Afzali, House of Representatives, Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Marisol Valles GarcíA, Deon Jones, 112th Congress, Chronicles of Higher Education, Umd, Scott Stirrett, American University, Tom Smith, College News
Stefanie Dazio

Come Jan. 5, 2011, congressmen will be back in school, learning how to read bills. Across town, another freshman has a similar agenda -- but add homework to his list.

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Army Awards $250 Million Contract To Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Due To 'Alaska Native' Status

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Military Contractors, Anc, Alaska, Alaska Native, Army, Delaware, Defense Contractors, Alaska Native Corporation, US2, Military, United Solutions and Services, Alaska Native Status, Army Contract, Politics News

In summer 2008, the U.S. military had a major problem. More than 2,400 service members had reported being sexually assaulted the previous year, and th...

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Barefoot or Branded Politics?

Khadija Sharife | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: African National Congress, South Africa, Anc, Cosatu, Politics News
Khadija Sharife

Academics, activists and intellectuals should not be influential in defining the boundaries of disputes with enemies by settling personal scores through political issues.

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Appropriating Native Economies: When Is Enough, Enough?

David Kimelberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Alaska Natives, Anc, 8a Program, Small Business Administration, Native Americans, Seneca Nation of Indians, Washington Post, Alaska Native Corporations, Media News
David Kimelberg

Native Americans have been asking this question for centuries. The latest salvo in this unyielding attack is highlighted in a recent series of Washington Post articles that target Alaska Native Corporations.

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Striking South African Unions Vote on Pay Increase Offer

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: South Africa, Strike, Army, Anc, Miners, Police, Public Workers, Zuma, Hospital Workers, World News
Robert Weller

South Africa appears to be in the worst shape it has been since successfully switching from white-minority rule following elections in 1994.

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Nelson Mandela Autopsy Painting Sparks Outrage (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: ANC Condemns Painting, South Africa, Anc, Nelson Mandela, Rembrandt, Yiull Damasco, African National Congress, Condemned Mandela Painting, Johannesburg, World News

A new painting that portrays Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing an autopsy has sparked outrage from the African National Congress (ANC), South Afri...

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Under Zuma, Mandela's Party of Liberation Struggles to Hold On To Its Roots

Christopher Alessi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Zuma, South Africa, Eugene Terreblanche Murder, Anc, Christopher Alessi, Mandela, Malema, Home News
Christopher Alessi

For decades, leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) sacrificed monumentally to give voice to South Africa's subjugated black majority. Nelson ...

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White Politician, Black Activist Nearly Come To Blows On South African TV (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Julius Malema Kicks Out Journalist, South Africa, Anc, Julius Malema, African National Congress, Eugene Terreblanche Murder, Eugene Terreblanche, Andre Visagie, Eugene Terreblanche Dead, AWB Secretary General Andre Visagie, ANC Youth League, Video, World News

(AP) JOHANNESBURG - A white politician stormed out of a live TV debate about race relations and a black leader of the ruling African National Congress...

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The World Cup Is a Lift for South Africa

Amb. John Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Thabo Mbeki, South Africa, Anc, Nelson Mandela, Jacob Zuma, World Cup 2010, 2010 FIFA World Cup, World News
Amb. John Campbell

The soccer matches will provide a lift for the national mood of a country that wrestles with seemingly intractable problems in a democratic context if no longer with the uncritical acclaim of the immediate post-apartheid era.

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Selebi Trial: SA Police Chief Jackie Selebi Accused Of Accepting Designer Clothes In Drug Smuggling Scheme

New York Times | BARRY BEARAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Jackie Selebi, Hugo Boss, Crime, Pravin Gordham, African National Congress, Drugs, Louis Vuitton, Johannesburg, South African Communist Party, Murder, South Africa, Interpol, Anc, Harrods, Glenn Agliotti, Etienne Aigner, Canali, Drug Smuggler, Haroon Bhorat, Blade Nzimande, Selebi Trial, Home News

JOHANNESBURG -- The drug trafficker and the police commissioner were once nattily attired pals, or so the allegations go. The two men would shop toget...

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This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Chile, Debt, Depression, Salvador Allende, Naomi Klein, Mixed Economies, Apartheid, Conservatism, Michale Winterbottom, Capitalism, Pinochet, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Communism, Freedom Charter, Channel 4, Margaret Thatcher, Anc, Shock Doctrine, Cia, World Bank, Tianamen, Imf, Milton Friedman, Soviet Union, World News
Johann Hari

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

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Refugees: South Africa's New Apartheid

Alex Matthews | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Anc, Zanu-Pf, Mdc, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, Cape Town-South Africa, Politics News
Alex Matthews

The senseless anarchy that rocked South Africa may have calmed but, tragically, the hatred lingers and the tensions remain.

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South Africa Election: ANC Leads In Preliminary Results

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's governing party set off fireworks and popped fizzy bottles of champagne Thursday as ballots were counted in the co...

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Mandela Endorses Jacob Zuma At Massive Election Rally

washingtonpost.com | Karin Brulliard | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Zuma Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Anc, Foreign Affairs, Mandela Zuma, Mandela, South Africa, South Africa Election, Jacob Zuma, World News

JOHANNESBURG, April 19 -- Pollsters and analysts predict a clean sweep for the ruling African National Congress when this nation goes to the polls on ...

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Jacob Zuma Corruption Charges Dropped

Mail & Guardian Online | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: South Africa, Anc, Zuma Corruption Charges, African National Congress, Foreign Affairs, Zuma, Zuma Charges Dropped, South Africa Corruption, Jacob Zuma, World News

Dropping corruption charges against African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma does not amount to an acquittal, acting National Director of Pub...

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Mandela Emerges From Retirement To Support Zuma For President

The Independent | Daniel Howden | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: South Africa, Jacob Zuma, Anc, Nelson Mandela, The Independent, Africa, African National Congress, Apartheid, Madiba, Zuma, Mandela, World News

Facing its first real challenge since the end of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) has turned to the man who many wish was still leading ...

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