Anti-apartheid icon Mandela's life now online

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - At a news conference in Johannesburg Tuesday, Mandela's archivists and Google said their $1.25 million project to digitally preserve a record of the anti-apartheid leader's life is now online...

Blacks in South African feel discriminated against

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Many people in Capetown, South African feel that no matter how much success they achieve as long as they are black they will always be second class...

Charlize Theron adopts baby boy named Jackson

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NEW YORK (AP) - In a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Theron's publicist said the actress is a 'proud mom of a healthy baby boy named Jackson'...

South Africa opens diplomatic ties to Somalia

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa says it is establishing its first diplomatic relations with Somalia in hopes it can assist in the war torn east African nation's search for peace and democracy...

Tens of thousands protest for poor in South Africa

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Tens of thousands of South Africans marched peacefully through their main cities Wednesday to demand the governing African National Congress do more for the poor...

Mandela leaves hospital after minor surgery

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Former President Nelson Mandela was released from the hospital Sunday after an overnight stay for minor diagnostic surgery to determine the cause of an abdominal complaint, a spokesman for the country's current leader said...

Nelson Mandela hospitalized with stomach ailment

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized Saturday with a stomach ailment...

South Africa bills to bear Mandela's image

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The complete series of South African bank notes will bear Nelson Mandela's image, the country's president said Saturday on the 22nd anniversary of the anti-apartheid icon's release from prison...