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...young black South African from the sunshine of newly liberated Soweto, such as MacBeth Sibaya or Japhet Zwane, it can't be much fun emigrating to the icy wastes of Russia's rundown industrial cities brimming with angry, racist skinheads. But there's more than money to compensate: the Russian and Ukrainian teams play in the pan-European tournaments, offering their imports a platform on which to impress the scouts of clubs in Italy, Spain and Britain, who'll offer a better wage and more benign living conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their...
...Africa 's urban townships are congested shantytowns, home to millions - up to a third of the country's black population. It was in the townships that the struggle against apartheid was at its most intense, but until recently few white South Africans, and fewer tourists, had actually been to Soweto or any of the other impoverished areas that huddle around South Africa 's largest cities. These days, though, a township tour is practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa. Soweto, a few miles from Johannesburg, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity...
DIED. WALTER SISULU, 90, steadfast, low-profile crusader against apartheid who, with close friend Nelson Mandela, led the African National Congress (A.N.C.), co-founded its Youth League and engineered the struggle for South African democracy; in Soweto, South Africa. Sisulu, who recruited Mandela into the A.N.C. and later served as his trusted adviser during Mandela's presidency, spent a quarter-century with Mandela in the Robben Island prison. The son of a construction worker and a maid, he inspired reverence among inmates with his teachings and strength. "It was not possible to despair," he said after his release. "The spirit...
...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 from reprimanding her for failing to disclose her financial interest in Soweto's Winnie Mandela Family Museum. Following the verdicts, Madikizela-Mandela said she would resign from all her public positions. Hell No, He Won't Go venezuela President Hugo Chávez's government refused to sign an agreement it had made with the opposition to hold a referendum that could force...
...President were lashing out primarily at the rich, land-owning whites left over from the bad old days. It's not. While the atmosphere in Zimbabwe is akin to what you might have found in apartheid-era South Africa - another place where music, from impoverished townships like Soweto and Alexandra, spurred the people on to action - the real fight here "is really black vs. black," says a Zimbabwean M.P. "It's black people against a black leader." "The old man makes his own people panic," says Job, a taxi driver. (Names have been changed in order to protect the speakers...