Mandela ex-wife Winnie remains political force at 70
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South Africans marked on Tuesday   the 70th birthday of controversial anti-apartheid heroine   Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who is re-emerging as a symbol for   leftists in the nation's divided ruling alliance.
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At 72, the famous mentalist is still full of ambitious predictions.
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Former President Nelson Mandela, a leading AIDS campaigner, won local and international praise Friday for disclosing that his son died of the disease still shrouded in silence and fear.
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The Obamas of Kenya still live as they have for decades, even though their most famous relative is in a hotly contested race to become the next president of the United States.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki still has two and half years in office, but the battle over who will succeed him is already heating up.
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The Spice Girls would love to perform  for former South African President Nelson Mandela, but said on  Monday they had not yet been formally asked to be part of his  planned 90th birthday celebrations in June.
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A 73-year-old dissident who was freed after nearly a decade in a Myanmar prison vowed Monday to continue campaigning for democracy in the military-ruled country.
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The choice of a liberal white woman to lead South Africaâs main opposition party may seem counterintuitive. What Helen Zilleâs election says about a nation still trying to overcome the legacy of apartheid.
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LAKE SIBAYA, South Africa  - Bongi Nkosi stands  proudly by her family house gushing over an expansion made  possible by politics and pavement.
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South Africa and the world must strive to uphold Nelson Mandela&#39;s legacy as a peacemaker as the anti-apartheid icon enters his dotage, former US president Bill Clinton said on Thursday.
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OCEAN BREEZE PARK, Fla. -- In a community where everyone is over 55, it's fitting that Mayor Dorothy Geeben's age has made her a celebrity of sorts. At 96, Geeben may be the nation's oldest mayor.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced that his eldest son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, died of AIDS Thursday morning at a Johannesburg hospital.
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A South African court on Friday  rejected a bid by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of  former president Nelson Mandela, to appeal against a fraud  conviction, news agency SAPA reported.
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BUCHAREST, Jan 19  A 66 year-old Romanian woman dubbed ''the world's oldest mum'' in the local press defended her decision to have a baby, saying she was like any other mother.
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of the country&#39;s landmark leadership ballot, but has not explicitly conceded defeat to her former security chief. engagements.
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Windhoek - Hifikepunye Pohamba who won the presidential election in Namibia on Friday is staunchly loyal to his mentor and fellow veteran of the liberation struggle Sam Nujoma, the southern African country&#39;s founding president.
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Still pounding the pavement at 77, a reporter keeps alive the grit, vitality and maverick spirit of New Yorkâs phone-booth-and-fedora days.