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August 22, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A black farmworker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the brutal murder of South African…
August 17, 2012
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Frantic wives searched for missing loved ones, President Jacob Zuma rushed home from a regional summit
August 7, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — People have poured out of offices, pointed mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths…
June 18, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela's office has released a video of South Africans singing 'Happy Birthday' in an effort to…
May 30, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela's African National Congress has brought its centenary celebrations to his home village in eastern South…
May 23, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African President Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress sought a court order Tuesday to have…
March 7, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Tens of thousands of South Africans marched peacefully through their main cities Wednesday to demand the governing…
September 12, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to…
September 8, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Ontlametse is the first black child diagnosed with progeria, a rare and fatal genetic condition that accelerates…
August 28, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African police are investigating an image posted on Facebook of a white man with a hunting…
August 23, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Marsalis talked about his life Tuesday during a question-and-answer session at Johannesburg's Market Theatre...
August 12, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A sexy dose of jazz and the refined strains of Western opera and traditional Xhosa song drive…
August 8, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - One woman waited 1½ hours at the hospital, only to see a nurse who yelled that she…
June 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Met by singing children, tears, and embraces, the first family continues to volunteer and inspire in South Africa...
June 22, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - She also described the encounter as overwhelming because she never thought she'd ever meet the former South…
June 17, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The government on Friday and on June 11 brought 250 teens of all races and from all…
June 3, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. first lady will visit Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa and Gaborone, Botswana during…
May 23, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Mandela, who turns 93 in July, has retired from public life. He spent two nights in a…
May 18, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - What better way to fight apathy, and remind black people of the price paid for the vote,…
May 16, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Mandela has not been seen in public since he was hospitalized in January with respiratory complications...