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Cape Town offers its own glimpses into South Africa's history. On the Rainbow Curtain township tour run by Grassroute Tours (www.grassroutetours.co.za), you visit District Six, once a mixed-race suburb from which all residents were forcibly removed in the 1960s. In Cape Town's harbor sits Robben Island, site of the prison turned museum where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years behind bars. The windswept island seems a lifetime removed from the vibrant multicultural city across the water. Stay at the Africa Studio www.sa-venues.com/wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants...
...working full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for most of his 27 years in jail. After his release, Zuma helped organize underground resistance to apartheid. In 1975, he fled South Africa for Swaziland, Mozambique and Zambia - eventually becoming the ANC's intelligence chief...
...Children volunteers, for example, who range from teenagers to retirees, pay $2,025 for 11 days in South Africa (airfare and lodging included), spending about a week with children infected with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Plus, they get a daylong safari as well as a tour of the Robben Island prison that held Nelson Mandela for 18 years. In Thailand, Globe Aware charges $1,090, not including airfare, for a week split between teaching English to impoverished schoolchildren and visiting floating markets or trekking through temple ruins. These kinds of blended experiences are key to the multifaceted cultural education that...
...those who had worked for divestiture. I’m not given to much sentimentality about the best-years-of-our-lives-etc., but it did make me proud to think that some small echo of our noisy battles in Cambridge had been heard in the jail cells on Robben Island...
...have been offside. As the players gathered in midfield before the penalty kicks were taken, the Kop responded with a song recalled the 'pool's famous comeback vcitory over AC Milan in Istanbul two years ago; it exploded in cheers when Bolo Zenden netted the first spot kick. Then, Robben stepped up to reply, the hurricane of howling commenced and blew Robben and Chelsea away...