Article: South Africans agog as Mandela celebrates his 85th birthday

Article: Mandela endorses making key AIDS drugs available to all ...
Virus Weekly;  April 2, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... African President Nelson Mandela suggested that AIDS ... accessible to all South Africans who need them but ... AIDS medicine to South Africans through the public ... estimated 4.7 million South Africans - 11% of the population ...

Transcript: South Africans Celebrate Nelson ...
NPR All Things Considered;  May 10, 1994 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 NOAH ADAMS, Host: After Nelson Mandela was sworn in, the princes and presidents and other dignitaries ... inauguration was also in full swing. Tens of thousand of South Africans celebrating their new president on the great lawn stretching ...

Article: What African-Americans can learn from South ...
Ebony;  August 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Americans have demonstrated an affinity for South Africans. As part of the global family of the ... shared heritage and common bonds. As South Africans rejoiced throughout the recent inaugural ... hands of brotherhood and sisterhood to South Africans, and have been rewarded with a ...

Article: Africa's heart and Sol; Apartheid-made hotel magnate Sol Kerzner ...
The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  August 16, 2009 ;     700+ words ...FOR 18 YEARS, all Nelson Mandela could see of the country he would ... dumping grounds for millions of black South Africans, was so loathed around the world ... sanctions, and was performed at Free Nelson Mandela concerts everywhere. Yet here ...

Article: Out of apartheid, into the world; Ten years after South ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  January 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Evita" was able to hold the government up to ridicule. "Humor became my weapon of mass destruction," he says. When Nelson Mandela became the first president of a democratic South Africa, Uys was elated and thought, " 'I must get a proper job' because ...

Article: Now anyone can be Nelson Mandela Lord Tebbit's ...
The Independent - London;  February 13, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... understand how it was that Nelson Mandela was not able to tell black South Africans that it was their duty ... apartheid was over, once Nelson Mandela belonged to everybody ... not come amiss. He is Nelson Mandela. He is Mahatma Gandhi ...

Article: NOTEBOOK: South Africans fear the best is past Ten ...
The Independent - London;  February 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... YEARS AGO next Friday, Nelson Mandela made the journey from icon ... release, it is as though South Africans are not sure whether to ... lifted from 35 million black South Africans and replaced by the right ... a sharp riposte to those South Africans who think the country ...