Wealth gap threatens reconciliation in South Africa
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South Africa may have gone a long way to addressing racial injustices but there is a growing acceptance that its huge wealth gap threatens to derail the achievements of the post-apartheid era.
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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
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With Africa lagging behind in global development goals and rich countries cutting aid, leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme poverty on the continent.
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South Africa's largest mining company, Anglo American, tries to defuse an investment row with President Mbeki.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is under pressure over crime but his annual speech is expected to highlight poverty.
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A decade after apartheid's collapse, the gold industry in South Africa provides a measure of the transition in a country critical to Africa's future.
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When Nelson Mandela speaks, South  Africa usually listens. But his message on AIDS still has  trouble getting through.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hendrik Verwoerd Drive is headed for the dustbin. The busy road, named after a key architect of the apartheid laws that oppressed South Africa's black majority for decades, is likely to get a name more in step with the times: Nkululeko Drive, the Zulu word for "freedom."
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Income inequality is near record levels in many countries, and the worldÂs wealth has become even more narrowly concentrated than income.
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Some say the bare-knuckled succession struggle for the presidency could foretell how robust South AfricaÂs young democracy is.
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South African gold miners continue a war of the words.
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Jacob Zuma, who survived rape and corruption charges to become the president-in-waiting of South Africa, has harsh words for Kenya and Nigeria, where recent elections were marred by alleged fraud, violence and disputed results.
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JOHANNESBURG -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond   Tutu says some of South Africa's leaders are sinners and his   compatriots have failed to sustain the idealism that brought an   end to apartheid.
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South Africa was set Monday to ration electricity in a bid to stem a spiralling crisis which has dealt a severe blow to its status as the continent's economic powerhouse.
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A public and potentially damaging war of words between South Africa&#39;s President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a revered figure from the time of the country&#39;s anti