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4:3 Former Algerian FM Lakhdar Brahimi appointed UN envoy to Syria
Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister and long-time United Nations (UN) diplomat known as a strong-willed, independent broker, has agreed to replace former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria, the United...
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South Africa - Protest against crime
A South African company dumped 150,000 postcards on the front
lawns of President Nelson Mandela's office in Pretoria on Friday
(11/7) to protest the country's spiralling crime rate.
The postcards were dropped from the air and dumped from...
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UN Secretary General meets Nelson Mandela, visit Soweto
Johannesburg
1. Exterior of Nelson Mandela Foundation
2. Nelson Mandela comes out of building
3. Media
4. Mandela and Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, Secretary General of United...
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SOUTH AFRICA: HILLARY CLINTON AND BILL COSBY VISIT
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South African President, Nelson Mandela played tour guide Thursday at his former prison island to U-S First Lady, Hillary Clinton and American comedian, Bill Cosby.
The day began with separate visits by Clinton and Cosby to...
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Daughter of Muhammad Ali meets Mandela
1. Wide of Nelson Mandela Foundation building in Johannesburg
2. Foundation sign at entrance to offices
3. Mid of journalists
4. Women's WBC (World Boxing Council ) and IBF (International Boxing Federation) super-middleweight title...
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Celebrations continue for Mandela's 90th; frmr inmate comments
Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1. Various of traditional female dancers, singing and clapping, at the party venue
2. Various of party guests at the venue, waiting for proceedings to start
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mac Maharaj, fellow...
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Former British PMs Tony Balir and John Major arrive for Mandela memorial; Major comments
Heads of state, royalty, former presidents and rock stars joined the Mandela family for a memorial service at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg for the former president and anti-apartheid hero who died aged 95 last Thursday.
1. Wide...
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Scuffles break out as South Africans keen to see Mandela are turned away
Mourners queueing to see Nelson Mandela lying in state scuffled with police on Friday, as the numbers waiting overwhelmed officials.
An estimated 100-thousand South Africans lined up in Pretoria to view Mandela who was lying in state...
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SOUTH AFRICA: SOWETO: CUBAN LEADER FIDEL CASTRO VISIT
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Cuban President Fidel Castro on paid tribute to the victims of the 1976 Soweto uprising against white rule in South Africa on Saturday.
Speaking in Soweto Castro spoke of how the children who died in there and others who...
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South Africa's president says Nelson Mandela has died at age 95. Jacob Zuma says "we've lost our greatest son." (Dec. 5)
SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela:
"I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. "
SOUNDBITE (English) Zinzi Mandela: "But I cannot sell my birthright, nor I am prepared to sell the birthright...
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ONLY ON AP Former DJ wins competition to become first black African to go into space
It was one small leap off a wall in a poor South African township, but one giant leap for a former DJ who now stands to become the first black African to travel into space.
When Mandla Maseko took a photo of himself jumping off a wall...
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Family members arrive at hospital where Mandela is "serious but stable"; Jo'burg house
1. Mid of vehicle with Nelson Mandela's family members going through police checkpoint at Mediclinic hospital
2. Wide of Mediclinic hospital
3. Family member getting out of car
4. Mid of hospital sign
5. Wide of family member walking...
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S.Africa - All-Race Election Anniversary
South Africans celebrated on Thursday (27/4) the first anniversary
of the country's historic all-race election with nationwide
rallies. Political leaders, including President Nelson Mandela,
used the rallies to call for hard work to...
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SOUTH AFRICA: TOWN OF RICHMOND BECOMES A VIRTUAL WARZONE
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One of South Africa's picturesque towns was cloaked in sorrow as mourners buried 11 people killed in a series of violent attacks in the KwaZulu Natal province.
The night before the funerals brought more murders as the...
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SOUTH AFRICA: ALLAN BOESAK GIVES UP UN APPOINTMENT
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Allan Boesak told APTV Monday that he is giving up his appointment as South Africa's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
The African National Congress official has been accused of misusing aid money and his ...
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4.7.88 calls for a boycott of local elections due this October,
...
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SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN: ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU
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Old ideas are changing fast in the new South Africa, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken to those changes.
He took to the streets of Cape Town Thursday wearing the Springbok sporting symbol he once abhorred, but now says...
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South Africa - Campaign Calls For End To Violence
South African President F.W. de Klerk strongly urged defiant
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday
(16/4) to discipline his supporters and return to the negotiating
table to avoid conflict. De Klerk told a...
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South Africa - Mandela and Clinton visit
South African President Nelson Mandela on Friday gave his US counterpart Bill Clinton a tour of the Robben Island prison where the ageing statesman spent two-thirds of his 27 years behind bars under apartheid.
Mandela and Clinton, their...
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Deadlock broken in Burundi peace efforts
1. Various exterior Government Guest House
2. Various journalists waiting
3. Setup of press conference
4. Various of presser
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela
"There is nothing tentative. They firmly have decided that President...
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South Africa - Mandela Refuses To Delay Elections
South Africa's first all-race election will not be postponed
nationally or in any province, African National Congress President
Nelson Mandela told supporters at a college in Durban on Wednesday
The Independent Electoral Commission head...
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SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN: MANDELA VISITS SCENE OF BOMB ATTACK
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South African President Nelson Mandela has visited Planet Hollywood in Cape Town, the scene of the bomb blast which claimed the life of one man and injured 27 other people on Tuesday night .
Afterwards, he spoke of his deep...
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SOUTH AFRICA: SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY UNION TRIES TO BLOCK INVESTIGATION
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The South African Rugby Union is trying to block a commission appointed by President Mandela to investigate allegations against it of racism and mismanagement.
The Union has appealed to Pretoria's High Court and, on...
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African National Congress celebrates its centenary, Zuma sot
1. Wide pan across the interior of the Bloemfontein stadium, showing stage on the pitch and African National Congress (ANC) supporters in the stands
2. Wide of ANC supporters dancing and singing
3. Mid women dancing and singing
4....