DAVID GREENE, HOST: We are mourning the loss of a human rights champion. Ahmed Kathrada died today in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was 87 years old. Kathrada was a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement, and he spent decades in jail with Nelson Man

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[00:04.49]The Teacher's Last Shocking Lesson [00:06.97] 老师令人震惊的最后一课 [00:09.46]A remarkable woman reasons with her killer--and tapes it [00:12.84] 一位非凡的女人劝说杀害她的凶手---并录下音来 [00:16.22]She used the miniature tape recorder [0

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 31 January 2006 South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority says it is ready to prosecute people who were refused or failed to apply to the Truth and Reconciliation C

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US Anti Apartheid Movement Helps Bring Change to South Africa 美国反隔离运动给南非带来改变 It's been 20 years since the end of apartheid in South Africa, the system of racial segregation that curtailed the rights of black South Africans

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(a) Tomatoes! Tomatoes! Forty p a pound. Yer lovely salad tomatoes today. Lots o'lovely mush. Fifty p half pound, and a punnet o'strawberries ... for one pound. (b) You have exactly three and a half hours before polling stations close. Three and a ha

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By Tendai Maphosa London 17 October 2007 A memorial to the late South African fighter against apartheid, Oliver Tambo, has been unveiled in London. Tendai Maphosa attended the event for VOA in the neighborhood in which Tambo and his family lived duri

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AS IT IS 2016-05-18 ANC Accuses US of Undermining Mandela The spokesman for South Africas ruling party has accused the United States of trying to undermine his countrys democratically elected government. Yet representatives from both countries dismis

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 01 November 2006 Former South African president, P.W. Botha, has died at his home in Wilderness on the country's southern coast. He was 90. VOA's Delia Robertson has this profile on the man who introduced some reforms

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and and former Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu talks during a press conference in Cape Town, South Africa, 22 Jul 2010. Tutu announced he is retiring from public life after his birthday on Oct. 7 when he turns 79. South Af

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Funeral of murdered white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche in Ventersdorp, South Africa, 09 Apr 2010 In South Africa, racial tensions have been heightened in some sectors of society following the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanch

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June 16th, 1858In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln launches his US Senate bid with the warning about America's split over slavery , arguing the issue must be resolved. Lincoln says a house divided against itself cannot stand. Three years later, the Civil Wa

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June 16th, 1858In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln launches his US Senate bid with the warning about America's split over slavery , arguing the issue must be resolved. Lincoln says a house divided against itself cannot stand. Three years later, the Civil Wa

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June 16th, 1858In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln launches his US Senate bid with the warning about America's split over slavery , arguing the issue must be resolved. Lincoln says a house divided against itself cannot stand. Three years later, the Civil Wa

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March 21st, 1965 Civil rights demonstrators led by dr. Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It happens weeks after marchers pushing for black voting rights in the South are attacked in Selma. The marches lead to

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 21 November 2007 South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki says citizens convicted of political crimes during the apartheid era may apply for presidential pardons. He indicated the program was to complete the work of a reconcili

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 01 February 2007 Adelaide Tambo, wife of the late Oliver Tambo and South African former President Nelson Mandela attend the unveiling of the O.R Tambo International Airport 27 Ocr 2006 in Johannesburg Adelaide Tambo, w

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 17 August 2007 South Africa's former Law and Order Minister, Commissioner of Police and three former police officers have received suspended sentences after pleading guilty in a Pretoria court to the attempted murder o

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JOHANNESBURG, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition remained unchanged Saturday afternoon, the Presidency said. Mandela, who was admitted to a Pretoria hospital for a recurrence of lung infection at about 1:30 a

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South African cities 南非城市现状 Still worlds apart 支离破碎 Urban communities remain divided along racial lines. Can that be changed? 城市社区依然按照种族划分。这种状况是否有所转变? DRIVING throughSouth Africacan

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May: Daddy, can you tell me what they are talking about? 爸爸,你能告诉我他们在谈论的是什么吗? Benjamin: They are talking about the network of the bus company. 他们在说公交公司网络的问题。 May Why is their networ

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