"Mandela leaves estate worth $4.1 million" Associated Press, February 04, 2014
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s estate, worth roughly $4.1 million, will be shared among his family, members of his staff, schools that he attended, and the African National Congress, the will’s executors said Monday.
Mandela’s third wife, Graca Machel, is the main beneficiary because their marriage was ‘‘in community of property’’ and she therefore has the right to half his estate, as long as she claims it within 90 days, said executor Dikgang Moseneke who is also deputy chief justice of the Constitutional Court.
Graca Machel’s first husband, President Samora Machel of Mozambique, died in a plane crash in 1986.
Hmmmmmmmm!
Mandela’s former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was not mentioned in the will. The couple divorced in 1996.
Mandela, a prisoner during white racist rule who became South Africa’s first black president, died Dec. 5 at age 95. His African National Congress, the movement that fought white rule, now governs South Africa.
Not very well.
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Related: Mandela's Money
Yeah, they couldn't wait until he died.
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Related: Crowning Today With This Post
When the money-junkies have usurped even the best of mens' names.... sigh?
"Children join in unrest in S. Africa" by Christopher Torchia | Associated Press, February 06, 2014
JOHANNESBURG — Protesters used children as ‘‘human shields’’ during an attempt to burn down a police station and municipal offices, the South African government said Wednesday, reacting to escalating violence by residents of poor townships who complain that state services are inadequate or expensive.
Related: South Africa's New Apartheid
Wor$e than the old apartheid, but it has on black face.
Separately, a protester was fatally shot and another was injured in a clash between two groups of protesters in Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg, police said.
Demonstrators blocked roads with rocks and burning tires during a protest over plans by the provincial housing authority for a development in the area, said the mayor, Greta Hlongwane, according to the South African Press Association.
Dorothy, you ain't in the Ukraine anymore!
The upheaval follows a surge in protests in communities in other parts of the country where the state struggles to deliver services, challenging the ruling African National Congress party ahead of elections this year, the 20th anniversary of the end of white minority rule.
It's the $ame $tory we have $een acro$$ all $ocieties no matter what they are called.
Police responded to some violent protests with deadly gunfire, drawing criticism from human rights activists who say a culture of lawlessness has taken root among some segments of the police.
Were they trained by Israelis like AmeriKa's $ecurity $ervices?
Police in Gauteng, South Africa’s most populous province, have dealt with 569 protest marches in the last three months, Lieutenant General Lesetja Mothiba, the province’s acting police commissioner, told the South African news agency.
And yet I have seen less than a handful of stories in my pre$$.
He said 122 of the protests were violent, and he urged the public not to be ‘‘armchair critics’’ of a severely strained police force.
Demonstrators set several buildings, including a clinic, on fire on Wednesday in the Bronkhorstspruit district, east of the capital, Pretoria, to protest what they say are high utility bills.
I $uppo$e there is only so much people can take.
There were no reported injuries. Several dozen people were arrested in another violent protest in the area a day earlier. Last week, demonstrators there set a police station and other public facilities on fire.
The government referred to ‘‘a trend of using children as human shields during protests,’’ citing an incident in which a group of teenagers led protesters who wanted to burn down a police station and other municipal offices in Bronkhorstspruit.
How embarrassing that the South African government, of all people, would trot out that tired old Israeli line.
‘‘This is a violation of fundamental human rights that may hinder children’s development, potentially leading to lifelong psychological damage,’’ Phumla Williams, a senior government spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Oh, the Palestinians that Israel tied to trucks and used when they knocked on doors!
Dozens of children, some in school uniforms, were involved in protests in Bronkhorstspruit on Tuesday, and a public library was torched, according to The Citizen newspaper. It said one frustrated police officer shouted at the crowd: ‘‘You are burning your children’s education. You are burning their books.’’
Yeah, that's wrong. I'm never for burning books.
Agenda-pushing newspapers, on the other hand.... (sound of match strike)
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You know what will solve all the problems?
Elections. Yeah, that's right, elections.
"S. Africa will hold elections May 7" by Christopher Torchia | Associated Press, February 08, 2014
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa will hold general elections on May 7 in a democratic milestone marking 20 years since the end of white minority rule, the president said Friday, as police struggled to contain violent protests by poor residents who say the government has reneged on pledges to improve living standards.
Now they have a mixed oligarchy.
The election will be the first since the Dec. 5 death of Nelson Mandela, a unifying figure whose election as South Africa’s first black president in 1994 lifted the hopes of many whose rights were denied during apartheid. The ruling African National Congress, the liberation movement-turned-political party that Mandela led, is favored to win the elections, but its popularity has slipped amid high unemployment and corruption scandals.
Not good combinations for an incumbent government no matter what the color.
South Africa’s most populous province, Gauteng, has experienced about 50 protests over lack of services this year.
Only 50?
Violence in poor townships echoes the unrest when antiapartheid activists sought to make townships ungovernable during white rule decades ago.
President Jacob Zuma, who is expected to run for a second term, said the election offers a chance to build on the democracy that Mandela and others worked so hard to achieve.
Gross, you $ick $hitter.
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