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...protect workers from poor economic planning by the government. This was the second strike in just over a month, as the country faces its worst political and economic crisis in President Robert Mugabe's 23-year rule. TIMEeurope.com: Zimbabwe in TIME Winnie's Woes SOUTH AFRICA Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to five years in prison, one of which was suspended, after being convicted by a Pretoria court of fraudulently obtaining more than $100,000 in loans. Meanwhile, a court in Cape Town rejected her bid to stop the speaker of the South African parliament...
...general elections scheduled for November 2004. meanwhile in the U.S.... A Bit Premature CNN's slogan "Be the first to know" took on new meaning when the network's website accidentally posted mock-up obituaries for luminaries including Pope John Paul II, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope - none of whom had actually died. CNN blamed human error, saying the obituaries were intended for internal review...
...documentary on the role that song played in the battle against apartheid in South Africa, Amandla begins with the sight of children singing as they watch the exhumation and reburial of their executed father’s corpse. Closing with the sight of newly-elected president Nelson Mandela gleefully dancing amid throngs of followers, the film contrasts the violence of South Africa’s apartheid era with the humanity and emotion of both its Afrikaaner and black South African subjects. The movie tells the story of black South African freedom music and how it articulated and embodied the people?...
...documentary on the role that song played in the battle against apartheid in South Africa, Amandla begins with the sight of children singing as they watch the exhumation and reburial of their executed father’s corpse. Closing with the sight of newly-elected president Nelson Mandela gleefully dancing amid throngs of followers, the film contrasts the violence of South Africa’s apartheid era with the humanity and emotion of both its Afrikaaner and black South African subjects. The movie tells the story of black South African freedom music and how it articulated and embodied the people?...
When South Africa's President took power in 1989, Mandela saw him as a "cipher." But there was no mistaking the smiling de Klerk's worth when the two finally met the following year and de Klerk told the antiapartheid leader that after 27 years in jail, he would be released the next day. De Klerk poured two tumblers of whiskey, but Mandela only pretended to drink. "Such spirits," he said, "are too strong for me." No matter. His spirit was strong enough...