South Africa seizes farm to resettle poor blacks
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CAPE TOWN -- The South African government has seized a 600,000-acre game and cattle farm from the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Southern Africa, and will divide the land among poor rural communities, ministers said yesterday.
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Namibia&#39;s white farmers were braced for a Zimbabwe-style land grab after polls opened following the retirement of President Sam Nujoma.
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Armed men have seized control of an oil complex in southern Nigeria owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, authorities said Friday.
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PRETORIA -- Emerging from the apartheid era, South Africa seized the role of a major African peace broker and dispatched thousands of peacekeepers to quell conflicts across the continent.
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South Africa is scouring  the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict  the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people  about the struggle against white rule.
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Hundreds of South African prisoners, who have been in jail since the apartheid era, are hoping to reclaim their freedom by convincing the government that their crimes were politically motivated.
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South African police raided a downtown church Wednesday night where hundreds of Zimbabweans had taken refuge, hauling people in pajamas to a police station in scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era raids
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ORANGE FARM, South Africa  - By sun-up, Valencia Mofokeng has her modest home in the ramshackle black township near Johannesburg humming like a well-oiled machine.
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In an about-face, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is letting some white farmers return to their land as the country faces starvation and economic collapse.  Since Nov.
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Police in Johannesburg raid a church and arrest some 1,500 homeless people and Zimbabwean refugees.
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Zimbabwe's government says it intends to end state subsidies for black-owned commercial farms.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki pledged to tackle poverty and crime, speed up land redistribution to blacks and fight AIDS in a speech on Friday that focused on the country's most glaring social ills.
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As South Africa&#39;s president he led the ANC back to power in elections in April with a two-thirds majority. The economy is booming, inflation is low and jobs, finally, are being created.
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Two South Africans cleared of charges of plotting a coup say they were stripped and beaten in a Zimbabwe jail.
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Armed men have seized control of an oil complex in southern Nigerian owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, authorities said Friday.
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More and more South Africans are giving up on farming and transforming their land into upscale game reserves.
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Kenya is trying to rid itself of one of  the last vestiges of colonial rule.