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  • September 2008

    • Interim Prez Takes Reins in South Africa

      BBC  |  Sep 25, 08 11:30 AM CDT

      Interim Prez Takes Reins in South Africa

      (Newser) - Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as South Africa’s caretaker president today after winning three-quarters of a parliamentary ballot, the BBC reports. The left-leaning intellectual is seen as someone who can ease rifts between supporters of Jacob Zuma, head of the African National Congress party head, and former President Thabo Mbeki. More »

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      Africa  • South Africa  • Thabo Mbeki  • Jacob Zuma  • Nelson Mandela  • apartheid  • Kgalema Motlanthe

  • July 2008
  • June 2008

    • S. Africa Reclassifies Chinese as 'Black'

      Times (UK)  |  Jun 19, 08 11:15 AM CDT

      S. Africa Reclassifies Chinese as 'Black'

      (Newser) - South Africa's high court has decided Chinese people should be reclassified as black, the London Times reports. The country's 20,000 citizens of Chinese origin had complained that they were left out of programs aimed at reversing inequalities created under apartheid, despite having been discriminated against under white rule. A controversial policy forces large companies to give some of their equity to black-run entities. More »

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      South Africa  • race relations  • racial inequality  • apartheid  • Chinese

    • Mugabe's Horrors Transcend Race

      Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Jun 14, 08 4:22 PM CDT

      Mugabe's Horrors Transcend Race

      (Newser) - Once, Westerners cared about southern Africa. In the late 20th century, outraged Americans of all stripes spoke out against apartheid, an outpouring that ultimately helped liberate both South Africa and Zimbabwe. Now, Zimbabwe is under the thumb of another murderous tyrant—this time a black one—and the West remains strangely and disgracefully silent, writes Cythia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. More »

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      Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • Africa  • Zimbabwe elections  • apartheid

    • McCain and Obama Joust on Iran Threat, Divestment

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jun 2, 08 3:54 PM CDT

      McCain and Obama Joust on Iran Threat, Divestment

      (Newser) - John McCain smacked Barack Obama on Iran today, telling a pro-Israel lobbying group the Democrat wanted to meet with “the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism … as if it were some sudden inspiration.” As the Republican proposed to lead a world divestment campaign echoing that against South African apartheid, he said a President Obama, meanwhile, would get “an earful of anti-Semitic rants.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Iran  • apartheid  • AIPAC

  • May 2008

    • Thousands Protest South African Violence

      Reuters  |  May 25, 08 6:55 AM CDT

      Thousands Protest South African Violence

      (Newser) - Thousands of South Africans marched through Johannesburg yesterday to protest anti-immigrant rampages that have claimed at least 50 lives. Carrying placards comparing the violence to apartheid, marchers brought traffic to a standstill, Reuters reports. The action was organized by labor unions and churches. The nation's largest newspaper today called for the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki for failing to stop the mob violence. More »

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      Africa  • apartheid  • ethnic violence  • mob

    • High Court OKs Apartheid Cases

      Reuters  |  May 12, 08 7:14 PM CDT

      High Court OKs Apartheid Cases

      (Newser) - Apartheid victims can sue corporations that dealt with South Africa’s government before 1995, the Supreme Court said today. But the judges did not render a decision, as four of the nine recused themselves, likely due to personal stock holdings. The claims seek $400 billion from companies including Exxon, Citigroup, and GM. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • General Motors  • Citigroup  • South Africa  • Exxon  • apartheid

  • February 2008

    • 'Urine Stew' Vid Sparks Furor in S. Africa

      Mail & Guardian (South Africa)  |  Feb 28, 08 1:19 PM CST

      'Urine Stew' Vid Sparks Furor in S. Africa

      (Newser) - South Africans have reacted with outrage and violence to a homemade video showing white college students forcing black employees to eat dirty meat and soup mixed with urine. The four Afrikaners, who don't disguise their faces, made the video to protest racial integration at the formerly all-white University of the Free State, reports the Mail & Guardian . Classes were suspended yesterday as staff and students marched in protest, and police fired stun grenades at one crowd. More »

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      South Africa  • race relations  • apartheid  • human rights violations

  • December 2007

    • Mbeki Likely to Lose ANC Leadership

      Mail & Guardian (South Africa)  |  Dec 13, 07 10:39 AM CST

      Mbeki Likely to Lose ANC Leadership

      (Newser) - With only three days to go until the African National Congress meets to choose a new leader, South African President Thabo Mbeki looks set to lose his position at the top of his party and might be forced to retire before the end of his term. Jacob Zuma, Mbeki's highly controversial rival, has shored up a seemingly unstoppable support—though he might yet again be charged with corruption, says the Mail and Guardian . More »

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      South Africa  • Thabo Mbeki  • Jacob Zuma  • African National Congress  • apartheid

  • November 2007
  • October 2007

    • Economist : No To South Africa Sports Quotas

      Economist  |  Oct 25, 07 5:53 PM CDT

      Economist : No To South Africa Sports Quotas

      (Newser) - The World Cup-winning South African rugby team shouldn’t be saddled with racial quotas, says the Economist : It’s exactly the wrong kind of affirmative action and would “mock the principle of merit.” One might think, the piece allows, the South African case would be the ultimate argument for quotas, as rugby “was a totem” of white nationalism during apartheid; but such move would actually hurts black athletes and the whole team. More »

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      South Africa  • athlete  • apartheid  • affirmative action  • rugby

  • September 2007

    • In the Ashes of Apartheid, a Shopping Mall

      BBC  |  Sep 27, 07 3:19 PM CDT

      In the Ashes of Apartheid, a Shopping Mall

      (Newser) - Nelson Mandela cut a ribbon today to mark the opening of a massive shopping mall in Soweto, the Johannesburg township that was the center of the struggle against apartheid, and his own home before he went to prison. The Maponya Mall, with 200 shops and an eight-screen theater, is the largest in southern Africa, the BBC reports. More »

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      South Africa  • Nelson Mandela  • apartheid  • Johannesburg

  • August 2007

    • Apartheid Officials Escape Jail Time in Murder Plot

      BBC  |  Aug 17, 07 4:58 PM CDT

      Apartheid Officials Escape Jail Time in Murder Plot

      (Newser) - After pleading guilty, five former security officials in South Africa received suspended jail sentences today for their involvement in a bizarre, apartheid-era murder plot. Onetime law and order minister Adriaan Volk and four others admitted they had tried to kill Frank Chikane, a priest and anti-apartheid activist, in 1989 by lining his underwear with a deadly nerve toxin. More »

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      murder  • South Africa  • trial  • racism  • civil rights  • hate crime  • apartheid

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