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Pontiff's unprecedented attention won loyalty of many congregants
Sun Foreign StaffSOWETO, South Africa - At yesterday's generally somber Mass, hymn-singing members of the Regina Mundi Catholic Church choir danced a stutter-step down the aisle as congregants slapped hymnbooks to the beat. Just outside the cavernous sanctuary, cars on a...Tags: Christianity, AIDS, South Africa, Africa, Berkeley (Alameda, California)
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Many fear Mandela mania is too much of a good thing
Sun Foreign StaffJOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- On a recent sunny afternoon, several hundred South African celebrities, business leaders and other guests raised flutes of champagne to celebrate the unveiling of a 20-foot-high bronze statue of Nelson Mandela at one of...Tags: DVDs and Movies, AIDS, South Africa, Africa, Finance
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S. Africa's new goal: economic equality
Sun Foreign StaffJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - When Peter-Paul Ngwenya, executive chairman of Makana Investment Corp. decided to buy a new car last month, he paid cash for a BMW 5-Series and had the dealer deliver the gleaming automobile to the front door of his spacious...Tags: Radio Industry, Cadiz Incorporated, Africa, South Africa, Employment
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AFRICA INVESTMENT-Africa's taste for a top tipple draws in luxury brands
ReutersBy Tim Cocks and David Dolan LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG, June 14 (Reuters) - With its rows of wooden shacks selling street food and cut-price haircuts, Lagos island's McCarthy Street isn't the kind of place you'd think to raise a glass of bubbly. But turn into a...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lagos (Nigeria), Africa, South Africa, Diageo Plc
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In South Africa, talk of Mandela's mortality
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The desk is spotless and books neatly line the shelves in Nelson Mandela's office at a Johannesburg-based foundation that carries his name, but the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader hasn't worked there...
Tags: Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, South Africa, Africa
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Lay preacher turned union boss wages S.African class war
Reuters* Preacher's son angered by poverty, income disparities * Evangelical style appeals to downtrodden miners * Investors take notice as AMCU dominates platinum belt * Wildcat strikes have cost billions, led to credit downgrades By Ed Stoddard and...Tags: South Africa, Africa, Casino and Gambling Industry, U.S. Congress, Work Relations
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Motorcycle accident kills Johannesburg man in Otsego County
OTSEGO COUNTY — A single motorcycle accident Sunday morning killed a Johannesburg man. According to the Michigan State Police Gaylord post, Harry Eugene Helgeson, 55, was traveling northbound on Crapo Lake Road near Lovells Road in Chalrton Township...
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Africa in slow motion on two little wheels
ReutersBy Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, June 10 (Reuters) - It sounded like a shotgun: bang, bang, bang. The back wheel swirled in a slalom and my Vespa scooter came to an abrupt stop. Not even halfway through my two-wheeled trip across parts of Africa and...Tags: AIDS, Tanzania, Mozambique, Africa, South Africa
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Nelson Mandela hospitalized in serious condition with lung infection
JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized in serious condition with a lung infection, according to government officials here, the latest in a worrisome series of medical ailments plaguing the nation's...
Tags: Gallbladder Disease, Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, AIDS, BBC
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Nelson Mandela's condition 'serious but stable'
JOHANNESBURG --South Africa’s beloved former president, Nelson Mandela, is in a hospital in serious condition with a lung infection, according to South African government officials, the latest in a worrying series of lung problems. South...Tags: Gallbladder Disease, Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, AIDS, Africa
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Nelson Mandela, 94, hospitalized in 'serious' condition
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a "serious but stable" condition on Saturday after being taken to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said. The 94-year-old, who became...Tags: FIFA World Cup, Entertainment Events, South Africa, Africa, Tuberculosis
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South Africans count the cost of global currency shifts
Reuters* Importers jack up prices as rand plunges * Even South African exporters bemoan weak rand * Possible Fed shift affects millions from Brazil to Poland By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG, June 7 (Reuters) - When South Africa's rand tumbled to a four-...Tags: Central Bank, Zimbabwe, Manufacturing and Engineering, South Africa, Africa
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