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Mandela honored by South Africa's governing party
Nelson Mandela's political party sang praises for the anti-apartheid icon Sunday, as the 94-year-old leader remained under doctors' care in the ...
Zuma asks South Africa's ANC to keep him as leader
South African President Jacob Zuma acknowledged Sunday that corruption and violence have marred the image of the African National Congress under his ...
Mandela undergoes successful gallstone surgery
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela underwent a successful surgery to remove gallstones Saturday, the nation's presidency said, as the ...
A history of the African National Congress
A glance at the history of South Africa's governing African National Congress political party: ___ —1912: Founding of South African Native National ...
SAfrica's ANC party to choose leader amid turmoil
South Africa's governing African National Congress political party will return to where it was first formed to fight apartheid a century ago to pick ...
Mandela remains hospitalized as questions grow
Where is Nelson Mandela? As the 94-year-old patriarch of South Africa's democracy entered his seventh day of hospitalization Friday for a recurring ...
Confusion rises over Nelson Mandela's location
South Africa's presidency declined to directly address reports Thursday that anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was being treated at a different ...
South Africa deputy president in race to lead ANC
South Africa's soft-spoken Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will compete next week against President Jacob Zuma to lead the country's ruling party, ...
Mandela's fading presence worries South Africa
As South Africa's governing party moves closer to picking its next leader, it will do so without the man widely viewed as the country's moral compass.
New inquiry in '86 crash killing Mozambique leader
South African police have opened a new investigation into the 1986 airplane crash that killed Mozambique's Marxist president and more than 20 others, ...
S Africa worried as Mandela remains in hospital
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela underwent more medical tests Monday in a military hospital as the public and journalists outside asked: ...
South Africa at crossroads as Mandela hospitalized
Inside a Catholic church that once served as a major rallying point for anti-apartheid activists, the image of a gray-suited Nelson Mandela appears ...
South African icon Nelson Mandela hospitalized
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though the nation's president told the ...
South Africa military plane crashes, killing 11
A South African military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near former President Nelson Mandela's village crashed in a mountain range, killing ...
South Africa makes progress in HIV, AIDS fight
In the early '90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on ...
S. Africa deputy president cagey on leading ANC
South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, the man some have begun to nominate to take over the nation's governing African National Congress ...
Court: S. Africa official delayed Dalai Lama visa
A South African court ruled Thursday that officials "unreasonably delayed" a decision about whether to grant the Dalai Lama a visa for a planned 2011 ...
Jakes Gerwel, friend and aide to Mandela, dies
Jakes Gerwel, who advocated for the end of apartheid in South Africa and became a longtime friend and trusted aide to former President Nelson Mandela, ...