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/ 12 November 2008
The body of singing legend and activist ”Mama Africa” Miriam Makeba, who died in Italy aged 76, arrived in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
The remains of South African singer Miriam Makeba, who died in Italy on Sunday, will arrive home on Wednesday morning, the Foreign Ministry said.
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/ 11 November 2008
The Foreign Affairs Ministry will assist the family of SA singer Miriam Makeba to bring her remains home following her death in Italy on Sunday.
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/ 10 November 2008
Nelson Mandela praised Miriam Makeba as a ”mother” of modern SA, as tributes poured in on Monday for the legendary singer.
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/ 10 November 2008
Legendary singer Miriam Makeba, who died aged 76 on Sunday, simply wanted to leave a memory of being a ”very good old lady”, she once said.
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/ 10 November 2008
Miriam Makeba has died aged 76 after being taken ill near the southern Italian town of Caserta following a concert, Ansa news agency reported.
As a women’s film festival starts, Andrew Worsdale finds women are becoming potent players in the industry.
”What I have seen here, I will tell the world in words and in songs,” South African diva Miriam Makeba — an ambassador of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation — promised women with smallholdings on the banks of the Congo, then threw aside her cane for a spontaneous song in the sand.
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/ 5 December 2007
What does President Thabo Mbeki like to do in his spare time? Ballroom dancing? Playing the piano? No, the man likes to work during leisure hours, says his spokesperson. As the ruling party’s national conference in Polokwane approaches members of the South African Cabinet certainly need ways to unwind.
Don Mattera remembers the Miriam Makeba of old.