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Winnie Mandela Denies Interview With London Paper

Johannesburg, - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has denied ever giving an interview to the London Evening Standard who this week quoted her criticising her former husband, Nelson
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Report finds online censorship more sophisticated

NEW YORK - Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday.
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ANC shacken to the core by Winnie over Mandela comments

Johannesburg, - Last night, the embattled South African ruling party ANC was reported to be desparately trying to contact MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to find out if she really said Nelson Mandela had let down black people, an official said last night.
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Winnie blasts Nelson Mandela

STRUGGLE stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela bitterly lashed out at Nelson Mandela in a new interview.
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ANC says COSATU moving to opposition politics

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's powerful trade union federation COSATU is veering towards opposition politics by attacking and criticising the African National Congress, a ruling party spokesman said on Friday.
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UK media's attack on Zuma disgusting - ANCYL

STATEMENT - The African National Congress Youth League is disgusted by British media's reports about South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (see here).
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State cannot meet land reform target - minister

SOUTH AFRICA's land reform minister said on Friday it would be impossible for the government to meet its own target of acquiring farm land to restore to blacks after it was taken from them during apartheid.
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Online Journalists at Great Risk Worldwide, Report

NEW YORK—A look at global press freedom during 2009 offers a glimpse into dangers journalists face as the media industry adjusts to years of corporate meltdowns.
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Transcript: FT interview with Jacob Zuma

It is 10 months since Jacob Zuma was elected president of South Africa and just a few months before the global spotlight shines down as South Africa hosts the football World Cup
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US killer hid children in freezer

A US woman has been convicted of murdering two of her adopted daughters whose bodies were found in a freezer in her home.
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Malema's mystery millions

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema owns two multi-million rand homes, flashy cars and a R250,000 watch, but earns R20,000 a month, according to a newspaper report.
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Niger capital calm, business as usual day after coup

NIAMEY - Lightly armed soldiers carried out a small number of patrols in Niger's capital on Friday, and markets, banks and schools opened as usual, a day after troops ousted President Mamadou Tandja in a military coup.
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Zuma "The New Mugabe" as students are abuducted for swearing at motorcade

CAPE TOWN - The arrest of a student for "swearing" at President Jacob Zuma's convoy is a tactic of a police state similar to Robert Mugabe's thugs, not a democracy, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Wednesday.
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'Asylum has become a dirty word'

The Scottish Refugee Council says that 25 years since it was set up, the situation for asylum seekers and refugees is worse than ever. BBC Scotland's social affairs reporter Fiona Walker looks at how attitudes have changed.
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South African opposition parties walk out of parliament

JOHANNESBURG — South African opposition parties walk out of parliament on Tuesday session after being asked to withdraw comments on ANC leading the country into Zimbabwean lawlessness.
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Kenyan coalition falls into own crisis

NAIROBI - Kenya's prime minister wants crisis mediator Kofi Annan to step in and resolve a growing row between the coalition government's two main parties over corruption allegations, a deputy prime minister said on Monday.
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South African man arrested for cooked head of relative

A man has been arrested in South Africa’s North West Province for murder after the cooked head of a relative was found in his possession, provincial police say.
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Jacob Zuma has 20 children

JOHANNESBURG - South African opposition parties accused President Jacob Zuma on Monday of a cavalier attitude to safe sex that is hurting the HIV/AIDS campaign after news that a woman not one of his wives had had his 20th child.
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Robert Mugabe's ally is the new AU Chairman

Lilongwe - The African Union on Sunday, during the first day of its 14th summit of heads of state and government elected Bingu Wa Mutharika, President of Malawi as its new chairman, replacing Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.
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South Africa security minister's wife arrested for drugs

JOHANNESBURG - The wife of South Africa's State Security Minister was arrested on Friday on charges of dealing drugs, the country's National Prosecuting Authority said.
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