September 24, 2007
FRONTLINE/World
HARARE, Zimbabwe - I snapped a single frame of an empty butchery in Harare. For that I spent two and a half days in the company of the Zimbabwean police.
I'd gone to the capital, Harare, to visit friends I had made seven years ago, while studying there as an undergraduate.
Associated Press
September 2, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Half a dozen teenagers are leading scruffy dogs through a slalom of orange plastic cones in the worn asphalt yard of a veterinary clinic.
The dogs have been rescued from nearby townships, the kids from South Africa’s criminal justice system. The teens started coming to the clinic run by Community Led Animal Welfare on Saturday mornings in late April after being arrested for theft, assault and other minor offenses.
Associated Press
August 16, 2007
LAWLEY, South Africa – In an informal settlement just south of Johannesburg, traditional African beliefs mingle with Christianity without any hint of conflict or contradiction in a night-long marathon of prayer and ritual cleansing after a death.
Three months before the ceremony, Solomon and Solizitha Ngobeni’s son and Thembi Dladla’s husband, Elias Ngobeni, died from AIDS. An estimated 5.5 million South Africans are believed to have the virus.
Mshale
August 1, 2007
OAKLAND, California – Sixteen years ago Dozie Ezeife drove a cab, now he drives a Mercedes, but not for a living.
For the first two and a half years after Ezeife immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area from Nigeria, he spent 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week, behind the wheel of a taxi. In between the morning and evening rush hours, he would pull over by a station at the Bay Area’s subway system, put his feet up on the dashboard, and his nose in a law book.
Associated Press
July 25, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Even Abanqobi Bomhlaba's rehearsal space has a day job _ as a creche. Back home in Zimbabwe, the a cappella group won national competitions and all 11 members were full-time musicians.
Here in South Africa one is a chef, one an electrician, another a gardener, another a security guard.
Associated Press
June 28, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Public sector unions representing 1 million members called off a nearly monthlong strike Thursday, bringing an end to a labor action that shut down schools and crippled hospitals across the country.
A majority of the unions agreed to sign the government's final offer including a 7.5 percent wage increase. The rest will return to work while negotiations continue, the unions said in a statement released after talks Wednesday night.
Associated Press
June 18, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - FIFA president Sepp Blatter endorsed South Africa's preparations to host the 2010 World Cup at the start of a two-day visit on Monday.
Blatter met with the local organizing committee _ led by Danny Jordaan _ and CAF president Issa Hayatou, who has been appointed by FIFA to monitor preparations, before
declaring that Africa would be ready to host its first quadrennial soccer showcase.
Associated Press
June 11, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Hundreds of people of all religious persuasions are flocking to be blessed by a 17-year-old South African girl who claims to have had visions of the Virgin Mary around her home.
Sightings like this are rare in South Africa, where only 6 percent of the population is Catholic. Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, the bishop of the diocese of South Africa, was not in his office Monday to respond to Zackey’s claims.
Associated Press
June 6, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - "The Lion King" came home Wednesday, showered by celebrities, music and dance.
The musical is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the South African run has been called a homecoming for the show whose score, choreography and story all have roots in the country.
Associated Press
June 2, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Public sector workers yesterday staged the biggest strike in post-apartheid South Africa, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home, and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
About 1 million workers are involved in the strike, described as the biggest since the onset of multiracial democracy in South Africa in 1994.
