As the world’s thoughts turn towards Nelson Mandela, it is becoming clear that his wife too will take her place in history.
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After communication from Graça Machel and Nelson Mandela’s children, the focus seems to have shifted to his discharge from hospital this week.
President Jacob Zuma announced in the National Assembly that former president Nelson Mandela is responding to hospital treatment.
Nelson Mandela is recovering well at home after being released from hospital earlier this month, his wife Graça Machel has said.
Graça Machel thanked everyone for their support and prayers for Nelson Mandela as she was recognised with a peace award.
Before he got married to Graça Machel on his 80th birthday Nelson Mandela proposed to a fellow struggle stalwart and an old friend, Amina Cachalia.
Friends and family of the taxi driver, who died in custody after being dragged behind a police van in Daveyton, have held a memorial service for him.
Albertina Sisulu’s name has become synonymous with the struggle for freedom, justice, human rights and dignity, the president said at her funeral.
The majority of Africans were not benefiting from the continent’s economic recovery, women and child rights activist Graça Machel said on Wednesday.
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/ 10 September 2010
African doctors and rights activists are pressing their governments to spend more on health as part of a campaign to stop children from getting Aids.
One of Africa’s most eminent political figures has condemned Britain for taking a patronising "big brother" attitude to its former colonies.
Human rights advocate Nelson Mandela and his wife have won a global award for helping to promote children’s rights over the past 10 years.
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/ 21 January 2009
Southern African leaders have failed miserably in saving Zimbabweans from a government that has lost all legitimacy, Graça Machel says.
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/ 8 December 2008
Foreign troops should prepare to intervene in Zimbabwe to end a worsening humanitarian crisis, the Kenyan prime minister said on Sunday.
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/ 24 November 2008
Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel visited a church housing Zimbabwean refugees on Sunday as they continued efforts to ease the crisis.
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/ 23 November 2008
Zimbabwe said it blocked the Elders from visiting on a humanitarian mission because they had not properly consulted with officials before the trip.
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/ 23 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai met the Elders’ delegation in Johannesburg on Saturday.
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/ 22 November 2008
A delegation of the Elders has cancelled its trip to Zimbabwe after it was refused entry into the country, it was announced on Saturday.
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/ 15 November 2008
The former United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, is to lead a high-profile team on a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe.
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Nelson Mandela said that as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
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/ 18 January 2008
Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan will go to Kenya on Tuesday to help mediate in the country’s violent political crisis, the UN said on Friday. A statement said that Annan, who had called off a planned trip last Tuesday after contracting flu, ”is making a good recovery”.
Climate change is already happening in South Africa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday during a visit to a biodiversity centre in Cape Town. ”You can see that climate change is already a reality here,” said Merkel, as she visited Biota Africa, a centre where German and South African scientists conduct research on African climate change.
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/ 17 September 2007
Violence is increasing in camps for displaced people in Darfur, where nearly a quarter million people have been displaced so far this year, a United Nations report said on Monday. The United Nations said rising violence in the overcrowded camps of the remote region of western Sudan was making it harder to carry out humanitarian aid work.