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• South African activist Helen Suzman dies
Suzman's daughter, Frances Jowell, said Suzman died peacefully at her Johannesburg home on New Year's Day. Jowell told the South African Press Association that there would be a private funeral this weekend and a public memorial service in February. ...
• Rights activist accused in Zimbabwe plot
Annah Moyo, a Johannesburg-based Zimbabwean human rights lawyers, said the charges against Mukoko were "trumped up," and could be used by the Mugabe regime as an excuse to declare a state of emergency and withdraw from power sharing talks. Mugabe's ...
• Christmas bleak for those fleeing Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The last Sunday before Christmas was celebrated with a carol service in a downtown Johannesburg church that has become a haven for hundreds of Zimbabweans who have fled their nation's collapse. While songs in her native ...
• Desert gust blows health risks from Calif. mines
Forester and others worry that particles of arsenic scattered by the area's stiff wind could be slowly poisoning the estimated 300 residents of Randsburg, Johannesburg and Red Mountain. Creeping closer The dozens of old gold and silver mines in the ...
• Top envoy for Africa: Zimbabwe has collapsed
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Zimbabwe has collapsed, and the world must act now to keep it from deteriorating into Somalia-scale chaos, the top U.S. envoy for Africa said Thursday. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer ...