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Articles of the author DONNA BRYSON Associated Press
To save S. African vultures, learning to love them
HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa — Many people associate vultures with death and decay. A couple of conservationists in South Africa are trying to show the public what they love and admire about these birds in an effort to save them. "No one's going (...)

07 - 12 - 2011
Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa
South African artist William Kentridge is perhaps best known for his charcoal drawings and videos in which those drawings seem to dance. But he works in a wide variety of media — putting his drawings on stage amid a polyphony of keyboards and (...)

18 - 09 - 2011
Nelson Mandela opera comes to Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG — A sexy dose of jazz and the refined strains of Western opera and traditional Xhosa song drive a new opera about South Africa's former president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. The range of musical styles in "Mandela (...)

13 - 08 - 2011
African Bank: Unrest in north has hit growth
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The turmoil in North Africa is hampering economic growth across the continent but is also inspiring democratic change elsewhere, the chief economist of the Africa Development Bank said Monday. In a speech, Mthuli Ncube said (...)

05 - 07 - 2011
African Bank: Unrest in north has hit growth
JOHANNESBURG: The turmoil in North Africa is hampering economic growth across the continent but is also inspiring democratic change elsewhere, the chief economist of the Africa Development Bank said Monday. In a speech, Mthuli Ncube said the unrest (...)

05 - 07 - 2011
Expert: Weaker Africans to benefit from free trade
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Weaker countries that fear being overwhelmed in a huge African free trade area will benefit from it in the long term, a development expert said Sunday as leaders of 26 governments launched negotiations to create the zone (...)

13 - 06 - 2011
Southern, eastern Africans move to free trade zone
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Southern and eastern African countries that account for more than half the continent's population and GDP are moving toward a free trade agreement that is as much about development as opening borders and dropping tariffs. At a (...)

12 - 06 - 2011
Expert: Weaker Africans to benefit from free trade
JOHANNESBURG: Weaker countries that fear being overwhelmed in a huge African free trade area will benefit from it in the long term, a development expert said Sunday as leaders of 26 governments met to try to accelerate the creation of the (...)

12 - 06 - 2011
S. African book draws from lives of abused kids
The psychologist's schedule was already filled with shattered children when she sat down with the parents of an eight-year-old who had been sexually assaulted by a 12-year-old relative. She wouldn't be able to see their son for another four days, (...)

25 - 04 - 2011
South African police find weapons bound for Somalia
JOHANNESBURG: A shipment of guns bound for Somali pirate hunters was moved from Durban's port into a house outside the city under mysterious circumstances, South African police said Tuesday. Police spokesman Vincent Mdunge said police had been (...)

28 - 12 - 2010
New Mandela book offers personal portrait
Nelson Mandela failing classes, fussing over his children, fighting with his wife. This is not the anti-apartheid icon of "Long Walk to Freedom," Mandela's 1995 autobiography. "Conversations with Myself," which goes on sale Tuesday in 22 (...)

11 - 10 - 2010
Zimbabwe bars S.African pop group from performing
A South African pop group known for its World Cup collaboration with Shakira has been barred from performing in neighboring Zimbabwe after releasing a video depicting President Robert Mugabe as a chicken, band members said Monday. Freshlyground (...)

14 - 09 - 2010
Mattafix, British duo, sings about war, gangs, Darfur _ but doesn't preach
The songwriting partners behind Britain s Mattafix have taken on gang violence, war in the Middle East, and filmed a music video in a camp for Darfur refugees. But the word Iraq doesn t even appear in their anti-war song Clear and Present Danger, (...)

24 - 02 - 2008
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