Professor Thamsanqa Kambule: Inspirational teacher who fought for high-quality black education in apartheid South AfricaIt was an article of faith among many whites in apartheid South Africa that blacks were incapable of doing mathematics. Their belief was that black brains were simply not up to it. Thamsanqa Wilkinson "Wilkie" Kambule mocked the myth and gave the lie to it: he was black and a gifted...
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Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateAn anti-apartheid campaigner who on Monday became the head of the environmental group Greenpeace says he will use his activism know-how to spur governments into reversing climate change, stressing that unless dramatic steps are taken "all the world is going to sink."Kumi Naidoo is the first African to head Greenpeace, said...
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General Assembly has declared July 18 "Nelson Mandela International Day" to mark the South African anti-apartheid leader's contribution to peace.A resolution adopted by consensus by the 192-member world body calls for commemorations every year starting in 2010 on July 18 Mandela's birthday to recognise the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's contribution to resolving conflicts and promoting race relations,...
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Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson has been roped in to play the lead role in a new film 'Winnie', which is about the former wife of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela.The film will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt and the production will begin on May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Capt Town, and the Transkei and Robben Island where Nelson spent 18 of his 27 years in...
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England tour South Africa and the build-up to the World Cup begins, it's an instructive and revealing exercise to sit down with a teen and explain that, until 15 years ago, the country practised apartheid. The reality of it in political, economic and social terms, right down to the absurdity of segregated schools, railway carriages, even park benches. Try it – there's an impossible-to-avoid disconcerting...
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(ANI): Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson has been roped in to play the lead role in a new film Winnie, which is about the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. The film will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt and the production will begin on May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Capt Town, and the Transkei and Robben Island where Nelson spent 18 of his 27 years...
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Maputo - Mozambicans went to the polls Wednesday to elect a president and parliament in a vote expected to endorse President Armando Guebuza's leadership of the emerging energy power and rising star among African nations.Guebuza is leader of the ruling Frelimo party, a former Marxist liberation movement that freed the south-east African nation from Portuguese rule in 1975 and has won every election...
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Rainbow Nation has come a long way, as its forthcoming sporting bonanzas should demonstrate, but politics continues to cast a long shadow over its sportCaster Semenya with her gold medal after ceremonies for the women's 800m final at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP, showing admirable good sense, flung me out of the country and recommended – in tones that...
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Jennifer Hudson to play Winnie Mandela in dramatic biopic < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateOscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson is to play the role of Winnie Mandela, the controversy-plagued ex-wife of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela in a new movie called. Production is scheduled to begin May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Transkei and Robben...
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Charlize Theron lacked consent of Nelson Mandela to put a meeting with him under the hammer, his office has revealed.The actress was said to have auctioned a meeting with the former President of South African at a charity event in San Francisco.But the Nelson Mandela Foundation said a meet-and-greet with the anti-apartheid icon needed "a rigorous process" and that the South African-born star was yet...
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