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Mourners make their way to a memorial service at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, on Aug. 23 after police shot and killed 34 striking miners and wounded 78. Demands for higher wages spread to at least two other mines, raising fears of further protests at more South African mines that provide most of the world’s platinum.

Strikes, violence continue to disrupt Johannesburg mines

By Michelle Faul - Associated Press

The Botswana mining industry has been massively mismanaged, with executives and ministers siphoning money for personal gain. (Associated Press/File)

Miners’ discontent a far-reaching problem

By Thomas Phakane And Michelle Faul - Associated Press

Striking mineworkers are caught Aug. 16, 2012, in tear gas as police open fire on striking miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. (Associated Press)

Some S. African miners vow to fight to the death

By Michelle Faul and Thomas Phakane - Associated Press

Illustration China's Aid to Africa by John Camejo for The Washington Times

THALER: China’s foreign aid to Africa

By Farah Thaler

**FILE** South Africa's Oscar Pistorius participates Aug. 5, 2012 in the men's 400-meter semifinal at Olympic Stadium during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Associated Press)

London Olympics 2012: Oscar Pistorius, South Africa get spot in final

By Pat Graham - Associated Press

A Free Syria Army fighter waves Aug. 6, 2012, from the top of a destroyed army tank in the town of Anadan on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria’s Assad returns to public eye with ally Iran

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with former South African President Nelson Mandela at his home in Qunu, South Africa, on Monday. Mrs. Clinton is slated to meet with the nation’s current leaders in Pretoria on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

South Africa relations on Clinton’s radar

By Geoff Hill - The Washington Times

White House spokesman Jay Carney speaks Aug. 6, 2012, during his daily news conference at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Carney: GOP criticism of Plouffe’s $100K speaking fee purely ‘political’

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who uses only his last name professionally, is the subject of the documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.” Though his career faded in the U.S. in the 1970s, his music was wildly popular in South Africa. (Sony Pictures Classics)

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Searching for Sugar Man’

By Adam Mazmanian - Special to The Washington Times

Briefly: Economist says Africa growing, political risks remain

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Researchers: Modern culture may have earlier start

By EMOKE BEBIAK - Associated Press

Photographs show 44,856- to 41,010-year-old ostrich eggshell beads produced with techniques similar to those used by Kalahari San women: shaping, drilling perforations, stringing with vegetal twine and smoothing with a grooved stone. (University of the Witwatersrand via Associated Pres)

Modern culture dated 30,000 years earlier after S. African find

By Emoke Bebiak - Associated Press

In this Monday, June 11, 2012 photo, a headstone marks the grave in Nweli, South Africa, where Benedict Daswa is buried. Daswa, who was born Tshimangadzo Samuel and raised in a traditionalist South African family, changed his name when he became a Catholic. The Catholic schoolteacher, revered for his good deeds, honesty and compassion, was also a fierce foe of the witchcraft widely practiced here. When a lightning bolt struck the village and Daswa resisted the elders' call for hiring an exorcist, he was chased into a pub and beaten to death. Twenty-two years later, his memory is still so revered that he has been nominated as South Africa's first saint. The Vatican is studying the application. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Murder victim may be South Africa’s 1st saint

By Donna Bryson - Associated Press

Briefly: School children celebrate Mandela’s birthday

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Westwood won’t worry about trees at British

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

Player capsules for the British Open

By DOUG FERGUSON - Associated Press

Recovery of South African fossil to be shown live

By EMOKE BEBIAK - Associated Press

A hat and purse, part of a fashion label inspired by former South African President Nelson Mandela, are displayed June 29, 2012, in Johannesburg. (Associated Press)

Mandela fashion collection to launch in the U.S.

Associated Press

Chimpanzees sit in an enclosure at the Chimp Eden rehabilitation center near Nelspruit, South Africa, on Feb. 1, 2011. (Associated Press)

Chimps attack American at South Africa sanctuary

By Donna Bryson - Associated Press