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SOUTH AFRICA: RUGBY FANS CELEBRATE VICTORY OVER FRENCH TEAM
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South African rugby fans were celebrating Saturday night, after their team made it through to the final of the Rugby World Cup in a dramatic rain-delayed game against France.
The victory put South Africa in the championship...
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20,000 women re-enact anti-apartheid march
1.Various of crowd listening and chanting
2. Marchers chanting and singing
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, health minister
"I think it is absolutely imperative that we really make sure that our women understand that...
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First students graduate from Winfrey school
1. Arrival of former television show host now school founder Oprah Winfrey, walking past cameras
2. Winfrey greeting Graca Machel, humanitarian and wife of Nelson Mandela, UPSOUND (English): "So good to see you! We did it! Well done,...
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SOUTH AFRICA: CALM CALLED FOR AFTER FIRST CASE OF EBOLA VIRUS
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South African President Nelson Mandela has urged South Africans to remain calm following the first reported case of Ebola virus in the country.
A spokesman for Mandela said on Monday the president was satisfied with how the...
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SOUTH AFRICA: MANDELA CALLS MEETING TO STOP ZULU NATION VIOLENCE
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South African President Nelson Mandela and his rival Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi have called a meeting of the Zulu nation in a bid to stop the violence sweeping KwaZulu-Natal.
The meeting will be used to air Zulu grievances...
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ZAIRE: PRESIDENT MOBUTU AND REBEL CHIEF KABILA AGREE TO HOLD TALKS
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President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel chief Laurent Kabila agreed Tuesday to hold their first face-to-face talks, bowing to international demands for a negotiated settlement of Zaire's civil war.
The breakthrough came after...
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WRAP African continent watches Live8 concerts on TV
Soweto
1. Television screen playing Live8 concert from Johannesburg, South Africa
2. South African family watching Live8 concert at home
3. House
4. Family sitting around television
5. Close up of television
6. Two girls watching...
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CHINA: WINNIE MANDELA REFUSED ENTRY TO UN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE
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Winnie Mandela was involved in scuffles at Monday's opening of the UN women's conference in Beijing.
There were ugly scenes when the estranged wife of South African president Nelson Mandela was refused entrance to the...
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SOUTH AFRICA: NOTORIOUS DEATH ROW GALLOWS TO BE DISMANTLED
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South Africa is to dismantle its notorious gallows, four months after the death penalty was abolished.
At the height of the political unrest between 1983 and 1987, more than 600 prisoners were hanged.
Now, as the...
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South African businesswoman launches new political party
1. Wide of news conference
2. Mid Mamphela Ramphele, leader of the new "Agang" political party, walking along and then sitting down
3. Close of Ramphele
4. Wide of news conference
5. Cutaway of press
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mamphela...
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Mural of Nelson Mandela made of 5,000 cupcakes
1. Wide pull out of completed cupcake mural of Nelson Mandela with chef putting on final drop of icing
2. Close-up of whisking icing
3. Mrs South Africa finalist and another volunteer icing cupcakes
4. Close-up of cupcake being iced
5....
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UK: FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT FW DE KLERK AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Former South African President FW de Klerk launched his autobiography in London on Wednesday.
In the book, "FW de Klerk - the Last Trek, a New Beginning," he details his life and political career, and also reveals the...
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UK - Banquet Queen Expresses Personal Warmth
Banquet Queen expresses personal warmth
Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday evening (9/7) departed from the usual stiff diplomatic language to hail South African President Nelson Mandela as the saviour of his country, praising his "willingness...
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Johnny Clegg plays 30th anniversary concert.
From a rehearsal studio one afternoon in 1986, a white South African musician wrote an international hit, and in Zulu, the language of the largest ethnic group in the country.
Called "Asimbonanga," which means "we've never seen him,"...
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Head of communications Khoza on death of anti-apartheid icon
The head of communications of the African National Congress (ANC) Keith Khoza mourned the death of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 95.
South Africa's first black president...
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Thousands of truck drivers take to streets in wages protest
1. Close of Nelson Mandela Bridge sign, pull out to wide of protest march
2. Pan from police walking alongside the march, to the protesters
3. Close of placard reading (English) "Zuma Please Help We Need 0% Labour Broker Slavery And...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: AID AGENCIES CALL FOR SET UP OF HEALTH PROGRAMMES
Eng/French/Nat
While President Mobutu's army and Laurent Kabila's rebels continue to battle for control, the people of Zaire are dying - from diseases that can easily be prevented and treated.
Aid agencies have called for the setting...
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Bangui archbishop pays tribute to Nelson Mandela
The top Catholic official in the Central African Republic on Sunday paid tribute to former South African president Mandela, saying he had "touched African countries and the entire world".
Speaking after Sunday Mass at Saint Paul des...
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PM Cameron comments on death of former SAfrica president
British Prime Minister David Cameron has paid tribute to former South African President Nelson who died on Thursday aged 95.
"Tonight, one of the brightest lights of our world has gone out," Cameron said.
Cameron said Mandela inspired...
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SOUTH AFRICA: DESMOND TUTU CALLS FOR TOUGH ACTION AGAINST NIGERIA
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South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is calling for tough economic action against Nigeria's military government following the hanging of environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other...
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A look at the costumes and masks popular in this year's street carnival
Mask factory workers and samba schools seamstresses are among those working around the clock to finish costumes in time for Rio de Janeiro's world famous Carnival, which starts on 28 February.
Revellers of all ages have already started...
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African leaders launch their new union in Durban
July 8
0000 Various shots of fireworks
July 9
0011 Interior shots of delegates attending conference
0014 Wide shot of South African President Thabo Mbeki
0019 Wide shot of sports stadium full of people
0022 Nelson Mandela arriving...
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South Africa - Mandela meets witn UN envoy
South African President Nelson Mandela on Tuesday (26/08) met with the United Nations special envoy for East Timor in an effort to bring peace to the troubled territory.
Nelson Mandela and Marker enter;
SOT Jamsheed Marker (English),...
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SOUTH AFRICA: NELSON MANDELA LAUNCHES "SMILE FUND"
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has announced the launch of a \"Smile Fund\".
The initiative - sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive company and The Star newspaper - is aimed at raising funds to help children...