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Nelson Mandela Headlines

A list of the most recent stories about Nelson Mandela.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday May 25, 2013. Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan. (AP Photo/Jim Young, pool)

In Ethiopia, African Union celebrates 50 years

The African Union on Saturday marked 50 years since the founding of a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and which now is trying to stay relevant on a continent regularly troubled by conflict. Opening a summit of the African Union in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, ...

  • Updated: 6:35 a.m. Saturday, May 25, 2013

MESSY LEGAL FIGHT OVER MANDELA TRUST GOES PUBLIC

c.2013 New York Times News Service JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela was livid. He believed that two of his daughters, working with a lawyer he had recently fired, were trying to meddle in his financial affairs. So he summoned the daughters, Makaziwe Mandela and Zenani Dlamini, to his home here for ...

  • Updated: 2:43 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
Press gather outside the Soweto, South African home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of former president Nelson Mandela, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A scheduled auction to sell items belonging to Madikizela-Mandela came and went without a single bid. Court sheriff John Maluleke and two other officials joined reporters gathered outside the gated home where some of her items were expected to be sold to cover an old debt she owes for school fees for her grand-niece, but were denied entry despite officials repeatedly banging on the gate. (AP Photo) SOUTH AFRICA OUT

South Africa: Winnie Mandela forced auction flops

There were no bidders and no locksmiths willing to force entry for a scheduled auction Tuesday to sell artworks and other belongings of Nelson Mandela's ex-wife. The bid to force Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to pay an old debt for school fees for her grand-niece failed. Court sheriff John Maluleke and two ...

  • Updated: 9:37 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
FILE : In this image taken from video, South African President Jacob Zuma, left, sits with the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. Mandela was treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection. South African President Jacob Zuma visited the former leader on April 29, but Mandela does not appear to speak during the televised portion of the visit, as he sits in an armchair, his head propped up by a pillow and with his cheeks showing what appear to be marks from a recently removed oxygen mask, although Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela “in good shape and in good spirits”. After the encounter at Mandela’s home, Zuma cheerily said the 94-year-old was up and about, in good spirits and doing well. (AP Photo/SABC TV) SOUTH AFRICA OUT

South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics

Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun. The sense of possibility that Mandela embodied is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens. Many ...

  • Updated: 10:39 a.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
Jury member Nicole Kidman poses for photographers during a photo call for the jury at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Weinstein showcases Grace Kelly, Mandela flicks

The Weinstein Company's fall slate of awards contenders will feature a glamorous Grace Kelly, a brawny Nelson Mandela and a mysterious J.D. Salinger. Harvey Weinstein previewed some of his company's most anticipated upcoming releases at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. He's made a habit of such previews, doing the ...

  • Updated: 1:58 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
FILE - In this July 7, 2006 file photo an unidentified initiate, with his face caked in white lime clay, eats rice from his blanket during his rite of transformation from a boy to manhood near Port St. John's, South Africa. South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa-file)

23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa

Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday. Police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern province of Mpumalanga, according to spokesman Lt. Col. Leonard Hlathi. He said an inquest is ...

  • Updated: 8:47 a.m. Friday, May 17, 2013

South Africa: Winnie Mandela's items to be sold

Dozens of paintings, a silver tea set and other items belonging to Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie will be auctioned next week to pay off debts she owes to a South African school. The sale will happen at the home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a polarizing figure who was beloved by many ...

  • Updated: 8:17 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ANC: We wanted to share Mandela with the world

The African National Congress responds to a barrage of criticism over broadcasting video of a visibly frail Nelson Mandela by saying it wanted to share the anti-apartheid icon with South Africans and the world. Spokesman Jackson Mthembu says it doesn't make sense to say South Africa's governing party was using ...

  • Updated: 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, April 30, 2013
In this image taken from video, the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. Mandela was treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection. South African President Jacob Zuma visited the former leader on Monday, but Mandela does not appear to speak during the televised portion of the visit, as he sits in an armchair, his head propped up by a pillow with his cheeks showing what appear to be marks from a recently removed oxygen mask, although Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela “in good shape and in good spirits”. (AP Photo/SABC TV) SOUTH AFRICA OUT

Mandela appears an ailing man in video

South African President Jacob Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela "in good shape and in good spirits" Monday, but a video of his encounter with the ailing anti-apartheid icon belies those cheery words, showing him with a vacant look on his face. It's been more than three weeks since Mandela ...

  • Updated: 12:43 p.m. Monday, April 29, 2013
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 18, 2012 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela as he celebrates his birthday with family in Qunu, South Africa. South African President Jacob Zuma says that former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in Pretoria to undergo tests. Zuma issued a statement Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 saying that Mandela is "doing well and there is no cause for alarm." (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

South African icon Nelson Mandela hospitalized

South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though the nation's president told the public there was "no cause for alarm" over the 94-year-old icon's health. The statement issued by President Jacob Zuma's spokesman said that Mandela was doing well and was ...

  • 9:25 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012
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