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		<title>Mandela Seeing Sustained Improvement in Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jason Straziuso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(JOHANNESBURG) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela is seeing sustained improvement from the recurring lung infection that forced him to spend a ninth day in the hospital on Sunday, the country&#8217;s president said. President Jacob Zuma said Mandela remains in serious condition but that over the last two days his doctors have said that the improvements in his health have been sustained. Zuma said Mandela &#8220;continues to engage with family,&#8221; according to the prepared text of a speech released by the president&#8217;s office. The leader of South Africa&#8217;s anti-apartheid movement, Mandela spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990 and became South Africa&#8217;s first black president in 1994. His hospitalization in Pretoria, the capital, is Mandela&#8217;s fourth admittance for treatment since December. (MORE: As Mandela’s Condition Improves, South Africa’s Anxiety Remains) Zuma asked the audience at a Youth Day celebration to join him in wishing Mandela a happy Father&#8217;s Day. Youth Day commemorates June 16, 1976, when school children from the township of Soweto marched in protest of a government order that half of all classes in secondary school must be taught in Afrikaans, a derivative of Dutch spoken by the descendants of European settlers. Police fired on the young marchers with live ammunition. Hector Pieterson, a 13-year-old boy, was the first one killed. In all, hundreds of children — who fought the police with sticks and rocks — were wounded or killed in the violence. Zuma said the youth of 1976 &#8220;took on the might of the apartheid state&#8221; and that Pieterson &#8220;became a symbol of the student uprising and quest for freedom and a better life.&#8221; &#8220;The bravery of our youth during those difficult times pushed our country closer to freedom and democracy which we finally achieved in 1994,&#8221; Zuma said. Leeann Foster visited the Pieterson memorial on Sunday, where many people had Mandela on their minds. &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit strange that he&#8217;s not here to celebrate with us as he has done so much for the struggle. But I think that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=90355&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Mandela&#8217;s Condition Improves, South Africa&#8217;s Anxiety Remains</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/12/as-mandelas-condition-improves-south-africas-anxiety-remains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry / Cape Town</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Nelson Mandela, 94, spent his fifth day in Pretoria’s Mediclinic Heart Hospital, South Africans’ alarm at his sudden decline has given way to a concern to preserve the dignity of a man who, to so many, represents the best of them and of all humanity. The respectful tone is apparent in the sparse updates on Mandela’s condition from his longtime friend, Mac Maharaj (also spokesman for President Jacob Zuma), who has been limiting the information he passes on essentially to five words: “Lung infection” and “serious but stable.” Zuma himself offered a more hopeful update on Wednesday, telling Parliament that his predecessor was &#8220;responding well to treatment&#8221; after a &#8220;difficult few days.&#8221; There has been little word from Mandela’s family, though his daughters Makaziwe, Zenani and Zindzi have all visited, as has his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The massing ranks of the world’s press have so far also played their part, observing a notable decorum by not crowding Mandela’s relatives and mostly restricting themselves to Maharaj’s occasional statements. Meanwhile South Africa’s press has taken on the role of national grief counselor. “It’s time to let him go,” was the front page of the Sunday Times this past weekend. During the 27 years he spent as a prisoner of a racist white regime, Mandela became a global symbol of injustice. But he elevated himself to icon when, after his release in 1990, he put aside his own sacrifice and suffering and urged reconciliation rather than revenge; and then, to hold South Africa together, he formed a government with his former persecutors. His stature rose further when he retired after a single term as President in 1999, a contrast to the many African leaders, and then again in his 80s when he became a kind of sage and conscience to the world, using his eminence to promote peace and fight poverty and disease. (MORE: Ponte City: An Apartheid-Era High Rise Mired in Myth) Mandela has not been a presence on South Africa’s political scene for 15 years. Fears that he remains a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89692&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S. Africa: Mandela &#8216;Responding Better to Treatment&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/11/in-south-africa-talk-of-mandelas-mortality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(JOHANNESBURG) — South Africa&#8217;s president says that Nelson Mandela is responding better to treatment after several days in the hospital President Jacob Zuma told parliament on Wednesday that he is happy with the progress that the international icon is making &#8220;following a difficult last few days.&#8221; Mandela spent a fifth straight day Wednesday in a Pretoria hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection. The 94-year-old former president was hospitalized on Saturday. MORE: Unlikely Fashion Mogul: Nelson Mandela’s Foundation Launches Fashion Line MORE: Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89589&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mandela Daughters Visit Ill Father in Hospital</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/08/south-africa-mandela-taken-to-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(JOHANNESBURG) — Doctors are doing all they can to improve Nelson Mandela&#8217;s health as the 94-year-old icon spent a fourth day in the hospital for a recurring lung infection, South Africa&#8217;s president said Tuesday, as two of Mandela&#8217;s daughters visited their father. In a possible sign of the seriousness of Mandela&#8217;s condition, daughter Zenani Mandela — South Africa&#8217;s ambassador to Argentina — arrived at the hospital to see her father. Former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela also visited. Mandela&#8217;s doctors briefed President Jacob Zuma on the former president&#8217;s health late Monday, the president said in a statement. In an interview, Zuma called Mandela&#8217;s situation &#8220;very serious&#8221; but said he has stabilized. (MORE: Unlikely Fashion Mogul: Nelson Mandela’s Foundation Launches Fashion Line) &#8220;We need him to be with us and I&#8217;m sure that all the messages that have been pouring in to wish him (a) quick and speedy recovery, they&#8217;re highly welcome,&#8221; Zuma told broadcaster SABC, adding later: &#8220;And we certainly join everyone to say he should recover quickly, and I&#8217;m sure, knowing him as I do, he&#8217;s a good fighter, he will be with us very soon.&#8221; School children gathered outside his home in a Johannesburg suburb on Tuesday and sang songs expressing hope the former president would recover. Mandela, the leader of South Africa&#8217;s anti-apartheid movement, spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990, and then embarked on peacemaking efforts during the tense transition that saw the demise of the apartheid system and his own election as South Africa&#8217;s first black president in 1994. His admission to a hospital in Pretoria, the capital, is Mandela&#8217;s fourth time being admitted to a hospital for treatment since December. His last discharge came April 6 after doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and drained fluid from his lung area. At Johannesburg&#8217;s Apartheid Museum on Tuesday, visitors walked through an exhibit showcasing the life of Mandela amid a feeling in the country that this hospitalization may be more serious than previous ones. &#8220;All these admissions to the hospital has been preparing us<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89186&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Pistorius Returns to Court Amid Arguments Over Leaked Pictures</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/04/oscar-pistorius-returns-to-court-amid-arguments-over-leaked-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ollie John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in nearly four months, Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympian accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, has appeared in court. During the 15-minute hearing, according to reports, Pistorius cut a much more composed figure than he did at his weeklong bail hearing in February, during which he frequently broke down in tears. Police arrested Pistorius on Valentine&#8217;s Day and charged him with murdering Steenkamp. Pistorius acknowledged at the bail hearing that he shot Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model, through the bathroom door at his home in a secure compound in Pretoria, but he denies murder and says that he mistook his girlfriend, with whom he says he had spent a quiet night at his home, for an intruder hiding in the bathroom. He said at the bail hearing that he shot her with a gun he kept for security. The defense argues that the murder charge should be reduced to culpable homicide. At today&#8217;s hearing Judge Daniel Thulare postponed the case until Aug. 19 (which by coincidence would have been Steenkamp&#8217;s 30th birthday). The prosecution had asked for more time to prepare for the case. Pistorius&#8217; brief appearance in court (he spoke just once, to confirm that he understood the magistrate’s instructions not to violate his bail conditions before his next court appearance in August) has for the first time in months cast the spotlight on the 26-year-old, who became the first double-leg amputee to compete in the Olympics. A 400-m runner, he raced against able-bodied athletes at the London Olympics last year. Pistorius has made only a few confirmed trips out of his uncle’s house in Pretoria since February. (MORE: The Pistorius Case: Do Police Claims Fit the Story?) His coach Ampie Louw told the Daily Telegraph that, while Pistorius is continuing to train at home, &#8220;mentally, he&#8217;s still battling.&#8221; His manager Peet Van Zyl told Der Spiegel: “Oscar sleeps poorly. He eats poorly. When you talk to him, of course he listens but I don’t reach him, he’s not there. He cries a lot.” That&#8217;s in contrast to claims (which are disputed by Pistorius) made<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=88715&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Pistorius&#8217; Bail Hearing: On Third Day, Lead Detective Pulled Off the Case</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/21/oscar-pistoriuss-bail-hearing-on-third-day-lead-detective-pulled-off-the-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to imagine a story more bizarre than that of Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic sprinter with no legs who shot his model girlfriend dead on Valentine&#8217;s Day only to be charged with premeditated murder by a police officer who, it turned out Thursday, is himself facing imminent trial on seven counts of attempted murder? As Pistorius&#8217; application for bail entered its fourth day at Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday, South African Police Service National Commissioner Mangwashi Phiyega confirmed that the lead police investigator, Detective Warrant Officer Hilton Botha, would face his own trial in May with two other officers. The allegation against the three is that two years ago, while driving a police car, they opened fire on a minibus taxi loaded with passengers. (Botha has been pulled off the case and replaced by Lieut. General Vinesh Moonoo.) In court, Pistorius counsel Barry Roux made no direct mention of the new development. But referring to Botha&#8217;s evidence on Wednesday — when the officer admitted a series of errors, misunderstandings and weaknesses in his case before conceding his evidence did not contradict Pistorius&#8217; account that he shot Reeva Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was a burglar — Roux said: &#8220;The poor quality of the evidence offered by investigative officer Botha exposed the disastrous shortcomings of the state&#8217;s case.&#8221; Pistorius is a double amputee who has competed in both the Olympics and the Paralympics on distinctive thin carbon-fiber running protheses and became a global star at the 2012 London Games. On Tuesday, the 26-year-old said he and Steenkamp, 29, went to bed on Feb. 13 soon after 10 p.m. after a quiet dinner at his home in Pretoria. At around 3 a.m., Pistorius said he woke, fetched a fan from his balcony, then heard a noise from the bathroom when he stepped back into the bedroom. Reaching for a 9-mm pistol he kept under his bed, he called out to the intruder, then shot four times through the door. Inside, Steenkamp was shot in the head, hip and elbow. She died shortly afterward.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70369&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pistorius Case: Do Police Claims Fit the Story?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/20/south-africas-own-o-j-simpson-case-do-police-claims-fit-the-pistorius-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Pistorius&#8217; lawyer on Wednesday tore into the lead South African detective accusing the Olympic and Paralympic sprinter of the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, forcing him to admit he found no inconsistencies between the evidence and Pistorius&#8217; account of how he accidentally shot model Reeva Steenkamp after mistaking her for a burglar. The police &#8220;take every piece of evidence and try to extract the most possibly negative connotation and present it to the court,&#8221; Pistorius&#8217; defense lawyer Barry Roux told the court. Later Roux repeatedly asked National Prosecuting Authority investigating officer Detective Warrant Officer Hilton Botha whether he found anything at the scene inconsistent with the version of events presented by Pistorius in court on Tuesday. Botha said he had not. Pistorius, a double amputee nicknamed the Blade Runner for his distinctive thin carbon-fiber running protheses — and who became one of the stars of the 2012 London Olympics — was arrested early on the morning of Valentine&#8217;s Day, Feb. 14. The hearing at Pretoria Magistrate Court, now in its third day, is nominally to decide whether to grant him bail. But as both sides set out their case for whether Pistorius is a flight risk and a danger to the public, the case has become, in effect, a trial in itself. On Tuesday, Pistorius set out his version of the killing, admitting to shooting Steenkamp through a toilet door but saying he thought she was a burglar. And on Wednesday, state prosecutors responded, calling lead detective Hilton Botha to set out the case for premeditated murder, the most serious murder charge in South African law. On Tuesday, Pistorius, 26, said he and Steenkamp, 29, went to bed soon after 10 p.m. after a quiet dinner together at his home in the South African capital. At around 3 a.m., Pistorius said he woke up to fetch a fan from his balcony, and when he stepped back into the bedroom, he heard a noise from the bathroom. Keenly aware of South Africa’s epidemic violent crime, he said he reached for a 9-mm pistol<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70085&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: How the Fall of Oscar Pistorius Is a Tragic Opportunity for South African Unity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than any other nation, South Africa articulates its dreams through sport. As the country teetered on the edge of civil war with the end of apartheid in 1994, Nelson Mandela adopted the Afrikaners’ game, rugby, and South Africa’s home triumph in the 1995 World Cup held the nation together. In 2010, Mandela’s successors in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) government chose a faultless soccer World Cup to deliver the message that Africa was no longer the hopeless continent but a waking giant of capability and opportunity. Until this month, the latest incarnation of South African hope was Oscar Pistorius, a man with no legs who triumphed in the sport he should rightly never even have taken up: running. (PHOTOS: Oscar Pistorius on and off the Track) Perhaps it is because the crushing of hope is the cruelest of experiences that South Africa is so dazed by Pistorius’ arrest for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day. South Africans, to judge by their newspapers, can think of little else. The week that followed 26-year-old Pistorius’ arrest has been a big one. President Jacob Zuma delivered his annual state of the nation address to Parliament. Mamphela Ramphele, the former partner of antiapartheid hero Steve Biko, founded a new political party. Thirteen people were injured when security guards fired plastic bullets at rioters at a platinum mine in Rustenburg, the latest in the industrial violence that has throttled South Africa’s economy since the police shot dead 34 striking miners at nearby Marikana last August. None of these events warranted more than the briefest mentions next to Pistorius’ arrest. But there is also an unusual quality to the introspection that Pistorius’ fall has prompted. Nearly two decades after apartheid, many South Africans still interpret any big event through a racial prism. Some have attempted to do the same with Pistorius’ arrest. Racist whites commenting on news websites blame the (black) ANC for Pistorius’ arrest since, the racists say, it was their incompetent (that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69844&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Mandela: Nelson Mandela&#8217;s Granddaughters Get a Reality-TV Show</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/being-mandela-nelson-mandelas-granddaughters-get-a-reality-tv-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela is a globally recognized activist, former President of South Africa and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He&#8217;s now also something entirely unexpected: the grandfather of two reality-television stars. American audiences are now able to tune in to Being Mandela, a 13-part program being broadcast on NBC’s Cozi TV network that focuses on the lives of Mandela&#8217;s two 30-something granddaughters, Swati Dlamini and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway. (MORE: Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership) Similar to the format of many other reality-television shows, Being Mandela is presented by Cozi TV as a 30-minute program that follows the trials and tribulations of family as they go about their lives. In a brief explainer, the channel says the program will follow “the next generation of this unique South African family,&#8221; giving the audience “a window into their daily lives.” On a press tour before the launch of the show, the sisters, who spent much of their childhood in the U.S. and speak with distinctly American-tinged accents, explained that the program was an opportunity to show the world that they really are “just a regular family” as well as a chance to show U.S. audiences a look inside modern-day South Africa. (MORE: Unlikely Fashion Mogul: Nelson Mandela’s Foundation Launches Fashion Line) Highlights are said to include an emotional visit to Robben Island, the prison where their grandfather spent part of his 27 years imprisoned by the apartheid regime. The two sisters explained that this was the first time they visited the prison since his imprisonment. Dlamini-Manaway also meets the prison guard who she says allowed her into the prison as a baby so that Mandela could hold her. Their 94-year-old grandfather, who was recently hospitalized for a lung infection, makes no appearances in the show, although he&#8217;s mentioned throughout. The clothing line that the two sisters launched with their brother is named after his autobiography, A Long Walk to Freedom. The producers of Being Mandela claim that unlike many other reality-TV dramas, no part of the series is scripted. “They were very vocal about what they like<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69103&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Pistorius Tells Court How He Shot Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/oscar-pistorius-tells-court-how-he-shot-girlfriend-reeva-steenkamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was buried at her hometown on South Africa&#8217;s south coast Tuesday, Oscar Pistorius wept uncontrollably in court as his lawyer, Barry Roux, read out his account of how he shot and killed her. Rejecting the prosecution charge of premeditated murder, Pistorius stated in an affidavit at the Pretoria Magistrates Court: &#8220;I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premeditated murder, as I had no intention to kill my girlfriend. Nothing can be further from the truth. I deny the allegation in the strongest terms.&#8221; Pistorius, the 26-year-old Olympian and Paralympian sprinter, one of the stars of the London Olympics and nicknamed the Blade Runner for his carbon-fiber prosthetics, then described the hours before the shooting at his house in Pretoria on Feb. 14. The couple had planned to go out separately with different friends but Steenkamp, 30, called to ask if the two might spend a quiet evening at home. Steenkamp gave Pistorius a Valentine&#8217;s Day present and asked him to save it for the next day. By 10 p.m., the couple were in their bedroom. &#8220;She was doing her yoga exercises and I was in bed watching television,&#8221; Pistorius&#8217; statement read. &#8220;My prosthetic legs were off. We were deeply in love and I could not be happier. I know she felt the same way. After Reeva finished her yoga exercises she got into bed and we both fell asleep.&#8221; Pistorius added he was &#8220;acutely aware&#8221; of South Africa&#8217;s violent crime. &#8220;I have received death threats before. I have also been a victim of violence and of burglaries before. For that reason I kept my firearm, a 9-mm Parabellum, underneath my bed when I [go] to bed at night.&#8221; (MORE: Details Emerge of Girlfriend Murder Case Against Oscar Pistorius) He continued: &#8220;During the early morning hours of 14 February 2013, I woke up, went onto the balcony to bring the fan in and closed the sliding doors, the blinds and the curtains. I heard a noise in the bathroom and realized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69835&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Pistorius Shooting: How Strict Are South Africa&#8217;s Gun Laws?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ollie John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder by a South African court following the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, from gunshot wounds at his home within a gated Pretoria housing estate. The woman sustained wounds to her head and the upper body, and was reported to have been shot four times. A 9mm pistol was recovered from the scene. According to Gunpolicy.org, there are just under 6 million licensed firearms in South Africa, which has a population of around 50 million. In a nation notorious for its high level of violent crime and where many people live in fear of home invasions, most South Africans who keep guns do so for personal security. A Daily Mail article in 2011 noted that Pistorius kept a machine gun and a pistol in his bedroom. South Africa’s Firearms Control Act came into force in 2000, following a decade which saw a huge spike in gun-related homicides. People applying for gun licenses now undergo rigorous checks, which take into account issues like a person&#8217;s temper, recurring issues of violence, abuse of alcohol. Interviews with spouses are also carried out. Also, a bill which seeks to give police extra powers to arrest anyone carrying a dangerous weapon in public was introduced into parliament this week. “We’ve got good gun legislation,” Alan Storey, chairman of anti-firearm group Gun Free South Africa (GFSA), told TIME. “What has been less than perfect has been the implementation of that gun legislation.” (MORE:  Reeva Steenkamp: What to Know about Oscar Pistorius’ Girlfriend) There is a huge backlog in gun license applications, putting the body that administers licenses under pressure — which can lead to negligence. An example: in March 2012, it was reported that notorious underworld figures Mikey Schultz and Nigel McGurk had been reissued with firearm licenses, despite having confessed to the 2005 murder of mining tycoon Brett Kebble (Schultz and McGurk were given immunity from prosecution for the murder because they agreed to testify against the alleged mastermind). Asked whether gun control is adequate, Gun Owners<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69147&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Details Emerge of Girlfriend Murder Case Against &#8216;Blade Runner&#8217; Oscar Pistorius</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Feb. 15, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. EST South African prosecutors on Friday formally charged &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; Oscar Pistorius with shooting and killing his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in the early hours of Valentine&#8217;s Day. At Pretoria Magistrates Court, prosecutors told chief magistrate Desmond Nair they would argue that Pistorius committed &#8220;premeditated murder&#8221; on Feb. 14 at his home in the South African capital. In the dock, Pistorius, dressed in a dark gray suit and blue shirt, cried silently, bent over and buried his head in his hands when he was formally charged with one count of murder. From behind, his father Henke, brother Carl and sister Aimee leaned forward to try to comfort him. Pistorius was, in the words of his defense lawyer, in an &#8220;extremely traumatized state of mind.&#8221; Nair postponed the defense&#8217;s application for bail until Tuesday. Pistorius will be held in police custody until then. (PHOTOS: Oscar Pistorius On and Off the Track) Police have said that Steenkamp was shot in the head and the hand. Local media reports suggested Friday that the police had been called to Pistorius&#8217; home at the Silver Woods secure housing estate in Pretoria just past midnight after neighbors reported hearing a loud argument. They were then called back a second time two hours later, around 3:00 a.m., after the shooting. The Afrikaans newspaper Die Beeld reported Steenkamp had been shot four times through a bathroom door and had been hit in the hand, the pelvis, the chest and the head. On Thursday a police spokeswoman discounted initial media reports that Pistorius shot Steenkamp accidentally, thinking she was an intruder, and added that officers were investigating &#8220;previous allegations of a domestic nature&#8221; at Pistorius&#8217; home. (MORE: What to Know About Oscar Pistorius&#8217; Girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp) Pistorius&#8217; family and his management released a statement Friday calling into question the charge that he murdered Steenkamp. Issued from London, the statement read, &#8220;The alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms,&#8221; and noted that Pistorius &#8220;would like to send his deepest sympathies to the family of Reeva.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69220&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Harvest: South African Vineyard Yields Much More Than Grapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Goulding / Roads &amp; Kingdoms</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mark Solms decided to turn his family’s land in Franschhoek into a serious wine estate, he took an unusual approach to his oenological endeavors: he hired an archeologist and a historian and began to excavate his property. “We set about, literally and figuratively, digging up the past,” says Solms, who is a sixth-generation landowner in this vine-carpeted valley, just an hour from Cape Town. For years he and his team went about retracing the complex history of the 30-hectare plot of land, sifting for clues that would help him better understand the lives of his workers and their slave ancestors. Eventually they came across the remains of a 7,000-year-old civilization, not more than 50 meters from Solms’ bedroom. “One of the farm workers, who hardly ever looked me in the eye before, took a stone tool from the site and said: ‘You see, professor, my people were here before yours. How come I work for you?’ If it wasn’t said, it was implied.” Solms is a serious man—tall, flushed in the cheeks, with a mad-professor shock of gray hair and an amorphous accent that suggests a man who has seen his share of this world. Solms’ primary interest isn’t wine; it’s the human brain. A neuropsychology professor at the University of Cape Town and director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis in New York, he has dedicated his career to investigating the relationship between the brain and personality. He’s made landmark discoveries about brain activity in the dream world; he has translated sprawling volumes of Freud’s work; he uses phrases like “insoluble morass” as casually and convincingly as one might say “raging hangover”. It seems fitting that a man invested in these heady academic pursuits would choose to grapple with the demons of the wine industry’s past. The winery’s Van de Caab Museum, filled with the fruits of the excavations, tells the stories of the workers who have tilled the land at Solms-Delta over the centuries: of Candaza van de Caap, who was assaulted and beaten by both<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61522&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carry On Regardless in South Africa, as ANC Re-elects Zuma</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/18/more-of-the-same-in-south-africa-as-anc-re-elects-zuma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a normal democracy, a crushing victory at the polls by the incumbent generally means an overwhelming popular desire for more of the same. Tuesday&#8217;s triumph by South African President Jacob Zuma in a contest to lead the African National Congress (ANC) reveals something quite different: how removed Africa’s most famous liberation movement now is from the people it would represent. With the ANC&#8217;s two-thirds electoral majority — a legacy of its glorious, revolutionary past under Nelson Mandela — Zuma&#8217;s re-election to the presidency of the party all but guarantees him re-election as national President, keeping him in power until 2019, when he would be 77. But to confuse his popularity among the 4,000 party delegates assembled at Mangaung, a township on the outskirts of Bloemfontein where the party conference was held, with wider popular support would be a mistake. (MORE: As South Africa Reels from Mine Shooting, Social Inequality Threatens to Undo the Post-Apartheid &#8216;Miracle&#8217;) Zuma came to power in 2009 under a cloud. For years he had faced charges of corruption, racketeering, money laundering and fraud, only for them to be dropped weeks before he took power. Today he faces another scandal: the state spending of what the South African press say is $28 million on security upgrades at his private residence in his home province of Kwazulu-Natal. Those allegations — and hundreds of other accusations of corruption and criminality against ANC ministers and councillors — fixate the media. But it is the ANC&#8217;s failure to lift its natural constituency — the half of the country, according to the government&#8217;s own figures, that 18 years after the end of apartheid still live below the poverty line — which this year stirred violent and angry mass protests against it. The state&#8217;s brutal opposition to those demonstrations, which included police shooting dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine at Marikana in the north of the country in August, was both shocking in the manner it evoked the violence of apartheid and underscored the distance that now exists between South Africa&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60259&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa Massacre: Miners Charged over Colleagues&#8217; Deaths</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/south-africa-massacre-miners-charged-over-colleagues-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Aug. 31, 2012 at 8:10 a.m. EST The decision late Thursday by South Africa’s state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues — men who were actually shot dead by the police, as recorded by numerous television crews — marks a bizarre new low in a bloody scandal that threatens to strip the country&#8217;s postapartheid state of what remains of its moral authority. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesman Frank Lesenyego announced “34 counts of murder have been laid against the 270 accused” over the shooting dead by armed police of 34 fellow miners at the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in northern South Africa on Aug. 16. The miners, also accused of the attempted murder of 78 fellow miners who were injured, were charged under a law dating back to 1956 known as “common purpose,” said Lesenyego, in which members of a crowd present when a crime is committed can be prosecuted for incitement. In other words: the state says the miners provoked the police to kill them. (PHOTOS: The Bloody Scenes at Marikana) The law was used as a catchall by South Africa&#8217;s white supremacist apartheid regime to convict black antiapartheid leaders for, say, leading a march or demonstration where some crime was committed. The 34 dead miners were among 3,000 mineworkers who had walked out in the second week of August in a protest over pay which then rapidly deteriorated into a violent turf war between two rival unions. Their shooting by the police wielding machine guns had already evoked comparisons to the brutality of apartheid, in which the police shooting of demonstrators was a well-worn tactic of the regime. That only made the prosecutor&#8217;s additional application of an apartheid-era law even more shocking. Renegade youth leader Julius Malema, expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) this year, called it &#8220;madness.&#8221; He continued: &#8220;The policemen who killed those people are not in custody, not even one of them.&#8221; In a statement, the Congress of South African<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42846&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After South Africa&#8217;s Mine Massacre, Will the ANC&#8217;s Grip on Power Unravel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics and labor organizing were always tightly intertwined in South Africa, ever since a series of militant strikes in the late 1980s helped make the country ungovernable, forcing the country’s white regime into negotiations that would eventually lead to the end of white minority rule. Given this history, it was no surprise that the police killing of 34 wildcat strikers last Thursday—the worst mass slaughter of protesters by police since the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994—should set off such a sustained political firestorm. The slaughter at the platinum mine in Marikana may mark the dawn of a new era of labor unrest in what&#8217;s still a young democracy. The most salient question in the massacre&#8217;s tragic aftermath was whether the government, which proclaims its “bias towards the poor,” would manage to keep the lid on or forestall new outbreaks of violence. Its ruling coalition is shaped by a “Tripartite Alliance” that brings together COSATU, the influential national federation of trade unions, and the Communist Party, with the African National Congress, the former liberation movement which has dominated national politics for 18 years. Ties between these groups have long been fraught, but now, as unions within the larger federation compete for members with new, more militant breakaway syndicates—with many workers getting increasingly fed up with the establishment ANC —tensions within the government are bound to intensify. (PHOTOS: In South Africa, Police Fire on Striking Mineworkers) In a series of public statements, President Jacob Zuma appeared bewildered by the chaos. On television Wednesday morning, he sounded genuinely perplexed about how the shootings could have happened. “Why [was] the agitation from the strikers so high?” he asked, as if the reporter interviewing him might know better than he. Widely published images and descriptions of private security guards who had been hacked to death with machetes by strikers in the preceding week were followed by a never-ending repetition of video taken of police unleashing a panicky fusillade of automatic fire at the protesters. The grisly clashes served to remind readers and viewers that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41918&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As South Africa Reels from Mine Shootings, Social Inequality Threatens to Undo the Post-Apartheid &#8216;Miracle&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of police massacres from the 1960s to the 1980s helped seal the fate of white minority rule in South Africa, so it&#8217;s hardly surprising that last week&#8217;s killing of 34 striking mine workers has left the ANC government politically paralyzed: It was the erstwhile liberation movement — now  the ruling party — that sent the police to break up a strike at the Marikana platinum mine outside Rustenberg, where the resulting confrontation turned into a bloodbath. In the days since, the ANC leadership &#8212; so quick, usually, to rally in support of traumatized communities &#8212; has reportedly been conspicuous by its absence, only fueling the rage of the miners and their supporters. President Jacob Zuma has called for calm, for mourning and soul-searching, and for an investigation. But Zuma will know as well as anyone that the Marikana shootings may yet prove to be the symbolic moment that signaled the unraveling of South Africa&#8217;s post-apartheid social contract. &#8220;The shootings at Marikana symbolize the failure of the promise of the ANC in the eyes of many of those that voted for it,&#8221; says Nic Borain, a Cape Town-based political risk analyst for BNP Paribas Cadiz Securities. &#8220;There&#8217;s rising anxiety within the ruling party over its failure to improve the lives of the poorest South Africans, among whom there&#8217;s a growing sentiment that liberation has been a mirage, that they&#8217;ve been tricked by an ANC leadership that has busied itself with taking personal advantage of every economic advantage that flows from its control of state power. In many state-owned enterprises and the public sector, there is activity that&#8217;s very difficult to distinguish from looting.&#8221; (PHOTOS: In South Africa, Police Fire on Striking Mineworkers) But such &#8220;redistribution&#8221; is hardly reaching the vast majority of black people, more of whom live below the poverty line today than did under apartheid. The World Bank this year named South Africa as one of the most unequal societies in the world, with the wealthiest 10% of the population earning almost 60% of its total income,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40470&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s Police Open Fire on Striking Miners: The Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Aug. 17, 2012 at 7:40 a.m. EST South African police opened fire on a crowd of striking miners on Thursday, killing 34 people and leaving a field strewn with bodies in a massacre that instantly revived memories of the brutality of apartheid. At a press conference Friday, the South African Police Service claimed its officers had been under attack by a group of miners armed with machetes, spears and clubs when they opened fire with automatic weapons into a crowd a few meters away. They added that 78 strikers had been injured and 259 arrested. Regardless of whether the police were provoked, the shooting of demonstrators automatically invoked memories of massacres of protesters carried out by South African forces under apartheid, which ended in 1994. Calling for the suspension of all police officers involved pending charges of murder and/or culpable homicide, the independent think-tank, the South African Institute for Race Relations, said television reports clearly showed &#8220;that policemen randomly shot into the crowd with rifles and handguns. There is also evidence of their continuing to shoot after a number of bodies can be seen dropping and others turning to run.&#8221; Referring to the security services&#8217; notorious killing of 69 anti-apartheid protesters in March 1960, it added: &#8220;This is reminiscent of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. What happened at Lonmin is completely unacceptable.&#8221; While not agreeing, the country&#8217;s political leadership expressed horror at the police action. Mac Maharaj, spokesman for South African President Jacob Zuma, said the head of state was &#8220;in shock that an industrial dispute has degenerated to such a point, to such a tragic loss of lives.&#8221; In a later statement, Zuma added: &#8220;We believe there is enough space in our democratic order for any dispute to be resolved through dialogue without any breaches of the law or violence.&#8221; Lonmin chairman Roger Phillimore said in a written statement: &#8220;We deeply regret the further loss of life in what is clearly a public order rather than labor-relations-associated matter.&#8221; (PHOTOS: In South Africa, Police Fire on Striking Mine Workers) Lonmin, the world&#8217;s third largest producer of platinum, shut down its<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40649&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hinderaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrific images and the carnage reminded many of the events that took place during South Africa&#8217;s apartheid era.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40618&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the G-20: Can the BRICS Save the Day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stood before the leaders of the G-20 in Los Cabos, Mexico, and pledged $10 billion of India’s reserves to the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s firewall designed to help the ailing euro zone. “India’s contribution reflects our recognition that as a responsible player in the global community, we must play our part,” Singh said in a statement to the media after the June 19 plenary session. Of the nearly $460 billion that nations have committed to the IMF&#8217;s firewall, India and the other BRICS countries chipped in $75 billion (China pledged $43 billion, Brazil and Russia each pledged $10 billion, and South Africa pledged $2 billion). It’s a significant contribution, and one that the five nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — want to be tied to IMF reforms that will give them more sway in the global lending body. “Many leaders emphasized the importance of accelerating governance reforms in the IMF &#8230; to reflect economic weight,” Singh went on to say in the media statement. Once the reforms, based on a recalculation of GDP and PPP and agreed upon in 2010, finally kick in, India will go from being the 11th to the 8th largest shareholder in the IMF. (MORE: If the Euro Zone Breaks Up, Poor Countries Could Suffer the Most) If it seems counterintuitive that countries with such high poverty rates are helping with the bailout of one of the richest parts of the world, it shouldn’t. China, India, Brazil and Russia are home to 40% of the population, and their governments are exercising increasing influence across a wide spectrum of policy areas. At this week’s Rio+20 summit, for instance, the BRIC nations are expected to have a stronger presence than the G-7, an older grouping of the most industrialized countries. That will fuel another round in the endless debate over who is responsible for cleaning up the earth’s mess, but a more interesting note is how the summit could mark a turning point in who shapes the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=32188&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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