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...Thabo Mbeki, then 54, succeeded Nelson Mandela as leader of the African National Congress (ANC). Two years later, he followed Mandela again when he was elected in a landslide as President of South Africa. Barring an upset, however, these are Mbeki's last days as leader of the party that defined South Africa's liberation struggle. The ANC will elect its next President later this month at a party congress, and Mbeki's party deputy and bitter rival Jacob Zuma has already established a crushing lead over the incumbent. Mbeki will continue as South Africa's President until 2009, when...
...Africa hope they have opened the door to a new way of studying TB and its effects. Megan Murray, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), co-led the project, which has been ongoing for 15 months. Willem Sturm, the Interim Dean of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa, was the project’s other leader. The project focused on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) that had recently killed 45 people in KwaZulu-Natal. The collection and identification of the strains took...
...medal was first awarded in 2000 to attorneys involved in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Other recipients include author and social justice activist Randall Robinson and former South African President Nelson Mandela...
...offered to meet the mayor the next morning. "No," said Giuliani. "Now." It was 10:30, but Kerik trooped over to Gracie Mansion and joined the mayor in a poorly lit parlor, where they shared a bottle of red wine that had been a gift from Nelson Mandela. "It was good to see him again," Kerik recalled. "It reminded me of the conversations we used to have during the campaign." The two men talked for a while, discussing Giuliani's first year as mayor and the unfinished tasks ahead, like cleaning up the Rikers Island jail...
...Klerk, who led South Africa from 1989 to 1994, shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years for challenging apartheid policies but later freed by de Klerk...