English/Nat Thabo Mbeki is expected to take over as head of the African National Congress at the party's 50th congress on Tuesday. His election will mark the high point of a life marked by extremes. Mbeki spent much of his adult life in...

November 29 2004 1. Wide shot of Tembisa Township, Johannesburg 2. AIDS volunteers singing team song 3. Volunteers walking into township to work 4. Gugu Dlamini giving AIDS leaflet to man 5. Pan from community leader table mat to...

Mandela, Castro arrive; ovation for exiled Nasri Delegates to the United Nations social summit on Friday (10/3) finally agreed on a plan to end worldwide poverty and social injustice but warned that results would not come quickly...

Supporters of a controversial sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial rallied outside his house in Soweto on Friday as government officials gave further information on an investigation into his appointment. Officials said...

Soweto 1. Various of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz visiting Mandela Museum 2. Wolfowitz admiring a portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela Johannesburg 3. Wolfowitz meeting Mandela at his residence 4. Various...

1. Tracking shot of interior of Exclusive Books bookstore, employee wheeling a trolley with boxes of books towards an empty book shelf, unloading box from trolley 2. Close of box lid being taken off to reveal the new Nelson Mandela book...

English/Nat South African President Nelson Mandela has urged global business and government leaders Monday to join in an anti-AIDS effort like that mounted against Apartheid. He told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that...

English/Nat Medicines and other aid supplies needed desperately by flood victims in Mozambique left Pretoria in South Africa on Thursday headed for the flood ravaged country, courtesy of the U-S Air Force and former South African...

English/Nat The mainly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party, voted today (Sunday) to end its 13-day boycott of the South African Parliament and resume duties in the National Unity government. At a conference in Ulundi attended by 3-thousand...

1. US President Barack Obama and Senegalese President Macky Sall arrive for news conference 2. Sall talking 3. Obama listening 4. Media 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President of United States: "I believe at the root of who we are...

South African president-elect Nelson Mandela on Saturday (7/5) attended a service at the Sea Point Synagogue outside Cape Town. Addressing several hundred people outside the synagogue after an hour-long service, Mandela paid tribute to...

English/Nat President Nelson Mandela has said his confidence in Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been vindicated with Libya handing over two suspects for trial in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Speaking on Monday in Pretoria, Mandela said...

8 mins approx 1. B-Roll on Beyonce in recording studio, recording v/o for MTV Mandela film 2. Sit down i/v with Beyonce Knowles, talks about: her hosting the Mandela show; her admiration of Nelson Mandela; her successful career; her...

music/video/performance rights must be cleared SABC Recording studios, Johannesburg, South Africa - 10 May 2010 1. Wide Vusi Mahlasela singing A Capella in recording studio 2. Mid Mahlasela singing in recording studio 3. SOUNDBITE...

British actor Idris Elba underwent quite the physical transformation to portray former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela in the upcoming biopic, "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." On the red carpet at the...

1. Nelson Mandela entering presser 2. Cutaway press 3. Mandela seated at table 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nelson Mandela, Former South African President "We cannot afford to be conducting debates whilst people are dying. We have to...

1. Exterior of 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria 2. Close of hospital sign reading (English) "1 Military Hospital" 3. Mid of hospital windows 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Brandon Blackbeard, Student: "I wouldn't be sad, I would be...

1. Mandela family lawyers, including Wesley Hayes (far right), walking Mthatha court building 2. Mandla Mandela's legal team walking into court building 3. Wide of media outside court building 4. Mid of Makaziwe Mandela, Nelson...

Nelson Mandela spent his first night at his home in Johannesburg on Sunday, having spent more than 80 days in a Pretoria hospital in a critical condition. Media were seen reporting outside the former leader's Houghton home from first...

1. Wide of hotel 2. Sign reading, "Happy Birthday Madiba" 3. Wide pan of audience 4. Various of audience, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, U2 singer Bono and film star John Cusack 5. Former South African president Nelson Mandela...

1. Spokesman for South Africa's president Mac Maharaj looking at photographs on wall 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mac Maharaj, spokesman for South Africa's president: "Doctors advised that he'd developed a pleural effusion, which was tapped....

People in Soweto celebrate Mandela's life

English/Nat At the start of an international AIDS conference in Durban South African President Thabo Mbeki has defended his government's AIDS policy. Mbeki told thousands of AIDS experts gathered from around the world that he is simply...

South Africans are voting again (until 2200 GMT) in their second democratic election in 18 months. A public holiday was called for the elections to choose almost 700 local and rural councils that will replace the last vestiges of...