Nelson Mandela

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• SAfrica report: Dispute over Mandela companies

  -- Nelson Mandela's children have launched a court case against several longtime associates of the former president in a dispute over the control of two companies, a South African newspaper reported Wednesday.The case was filed Monday in the Johannesburg High   Read more »

• SAfrica: Balloonist flies from old Mandela jail

  -- A man has strapped himself to large balloons filled with helium and floated from the island where Nelson Mandela was kept prisoner to the shores of the South African mainland.The goal of Saturday's trip from Robben Island was to help raise money for the   Read more »

• Mandela es dado de alta del hospital

  -- El ex mandatario sudafricano Nelson Mandela fue dado de alta el sabado de un hospital tras mejorar su estado de salud, informo la presidencia.Mandela, de 94 anos, fue tratado de neumonia y ahora sera atendido en su domicilio, indico un comunicado del presidente   Read more »

• Mandela has family visitors in 5th day in hospital

  -- South Africa's presidential spokesman says former President Nelson Mandela spent Monday with family members in the hospital where he is being treated for a fifth day for a recurring lung infection that developed into pneumonia.The 94-year-old who helped   Read more »

• Mandela recovering from pneumonia

  -- Nelson Mandela had a restful day in a hospital yesterday and is improving after treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia, the government said.The office of President Jacob Zuma thanked South Africans who prayed for Mandela, 94, at Easter church services   Read more »

Around the web

• Mandela daughters clash with lawyers over assets

  of Nelson Mandela's daughters who want access to his artwork and other assets are suing his lawyers, who have accused them of acting against the former president's wishes. Makaziwe Mandela and Zenani Dlamini filed an interdict in the South Gauteng High Court 3:07 AM from Regina Leader-Post Read more »

• Obama to take first major Africa trip

  will centre on whether America's first black president will see ailing 94-year-old South African anti-Apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, on a trip on which he will be accompanied by First Lady Michelle Obama. The White House said the long-awaited visit was intended 2:34 AM from The Courier Mail Read more »

• The Obamas are coming to SA

  met various justices of the Constitutional Court. Michelle Obama visited South Africa in 2011 and met with former president Nelson Mandela and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. Her planned tour of the apartheid prison Robben Island, which once held 2:08 AM from Mail & Guardian Online Read more »

• South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics

  against apartheid, later clashed swords with the ANC when he spoke about Mandela's eventual passing. "The best memorial to Nelson Mandela would be a democracy that was really up and running; a democracy in which every single person in South Africa knew that 5/20/13 from Washington Examiner  Read more »

• First Look Clips At Forest Whitaker & Orlando Bloom In South African Crime Drama 'Zulu'

  a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars 5/20/13 from Indie Wire Read more »