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Former South African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel have been voted Decade Child Rights Heroes by 7.1 million children, the World's Children's Prize foundation said on Friday.

What's up everybody? The end of another week is here and it's been pretty slow with Thanksgiving around the corner.

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, the prize foundation said Friday.

Winning that Oscar for Dreamgirls didn't just make Jennifer Hudson a household name, it also changed her life forever.

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Clint Eastwood says America is becoming more 'juvenile' posted on November 18th, 2009 Clint EastwoodA is better known for his fists than his fashion sense, but that didn't stop GQ magazine from naming him a man of the year.

Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson has been roped in to play the lead role in a new film Winnie, which is about the former wife of South Africas first black president, Nelson Mandela.

This is the first look at movie legend Clint Eastwood's latest film, which immortalises an infamous piece of Kiwi sporting history.

By Ella Smook Staff Writer Former president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have a problem - white people like them.

Dancers clad in animal skins opened a royal ceremony Tuesday, a nod to tradition for the forward-thinking kings, queens and chiefs who jetted in to Johannesburg from across Africa to launch an institute they hope will expand their roles on the continent The two dozen leaders from Morocco to Swaziland describe their new Institute of African Royalty ...

We are grateful for the work being done by Product to fight what we consider the biggest threat to our existence on this continent.

An official from the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned says rabbits killed to control an infestation will be fed to the poor.

A Norwegian newspaper said on Thursday that Norwegian King Harald and Queen Sonja were not expected to meet the increasingly frail former South African president Nelson Mandela during a state visit to South Africa later this month.

He travels the globe speaking to young people about his vision for the world, one where there are no boundaries.

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 18 July Mandela Day, to mark the contribution of Nelson Mandela to world freedom.

November 9, 2009 Mandela Endures as South Africa's Ideal By CELIA W. DUGGER New York Times JOHANNESBURG - The icon is a very old man now.

Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh have been invited to attend the 29th World Peace Day commemoration ceremony in the scenic eastern Indonesian city of Ambon this month.

A FORMER militia leader serving five consecutive life sentences in an Israeli prison for a bombing in Tel Aviv has emerged as the likely successor to Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian leader who plans to stand down.

The CEO of the Sun City security company involved in a race row in which Nelson Mandela was called a "k*****" has resigned in an attempt to "stabilise" the company, which has come under fire from trade union federation Cosatu.

An arms dealer who holds the local franchise for the Build-a-Bear Workshop has bought the "black empowerment" shares in military aviation company Aerosud, one of South Africa's two "risk partners" in the manufacturing of Europe's A400M Airbus.