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...Kenya in January, it does little to quell unrest in other areas, such as Congo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria or Uganda, or looming confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and its observers endorse corrupt elections from Nigeria to Zimbabwe. Kurt Shillinger of the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg says despite Tuesday's limited action, other events on the continent point to the AU's weakness. "Having stepped in to broker a solution and end the violence in Kenya, will it apply the same standards to monitoring Zimbabwe's elections (on Saturday)? Or will it wait to be embarrassed...
...expect that winning two Grammies would mean you could give up the day job. But when I meet the Soweto Gospel Choir's co-founder, David Mulovhedzi, at his home outside Johannesburg - two weeks after the choir won Best Traditional World Music Album for the second year running - he apologizes for rushing me. "I have to get back to work," he explains. Work, it turns out, is a job as a finance clerk in a cement wholesale business. "There are 10 people in my family," says Mulovhedzi, 60. "If I don't go to work, they'll starve...
...everyone in the Soweto Gospel Choir, success and struggle have been inseparable. In 2002, a concert promoter asked Johannesburg-based events producer Beverly Bryer to put together a South African choir to fill in for a Welsh one that had pulled out of a tour of Australia and New Zealand. She called Mulovhedzi, who ran a choir she often booked. Within a month, they auditioned hundreds of singers from Soweto, picked 32 and recorded an album to accompany the tour. It topped the Billboard world-music chart in a matter of days. Then came sold-out tours...
...reinvention of a township once known as a hotbed of rebellion, then as a cauldron of crime, and now emerging as the muscle that drives Africa's biggest economy. At the start of the 20th century, Soweto was a collection of shanty towns on the outskirts of Johannesburg where the British colonial authorities housed the black and colored laborers working the city's gold mines. The apartheid regime formalized this divide, allowing blacks and coloreds into the city by day but confining them to dormitory towns at night. Soweto became the focus of oppression. In 1976, police there opened fire...
...would you endorse for president? -Siafa Chauke, Johannesburg, South AfricaI haven't endorsed anybody yet. My focus, ever since the last election, is to really endorse the young people of America. There's a chance I might endorse one of those candidates, but right now my focus is making sure that we deliver them to the polls...