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Hillary Clinton is silhouetted by a stage light as she speaks at the University of the Western Cape about the U.S.-South Africa partnership, in Cape Town August 8, 2012.
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In this Friday Nov. 22, 2012 file photo, the carcass of one of eight rhino lays on the ground at Finfoot Lake Reserve near Tantanana, South Africa. A U.S. firm recently gave smart phones to some game rangers in South Africa to help them track poachers who kill rhinos for their horns. The rate of poaching in South Africa _ home to most of Africa’s rhinos _ in 2013, is on track to exceed the record number of illegal kills in 2012, conservation officials say.
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Karen Trendler cares for Ntombi, a two-month old white rhino, at Legends Golf Estate on January 12, 2013 in Limpopo, South Africa. Ntombi survived a brutal panga attack, when poachers, poached her mother earlier in the week.
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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA ? AUGUST 18: "Blade Runner", Oscar Pistorius on August 18, 2011 in Pretoria, South Africa. (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping after a media briefing at the presidential guest house in Pretoria, on March 26, 2013
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 file photo, South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes during Men's 100m T44 round 1 at the 2012 Paralympics in London. Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after a 30-year-old woman was shot dead at his home in South Africa. Police say Pistorius, a double-amputee known as "Blade Runner," was taken into custody after the shooting early Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at his home in a gated complex in the country's capital.
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Schmidtsdrift, South Africa. A Bushman child suffering from tuberculosis bundled against the cold.
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This picture taken on November 4, 2012 during the Feather Awards held at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg shows South Africa's Olympic sprint star Oscar Pistorius and his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius has been charged with the Valentine's Day murder of Steenkamp, police confirmed on February 14, 2013 ahead of his expected court appearance. South African police played down reports that Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend thinking she was an intruder, saying they had dealt with domestic incidents at his residence and will oppose bail. AFP PHOTO / Lucky NxumaloLUCKY NXUMALO/AFP/Getty Images
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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma celebrates his re-election as the African National Congress party president on the outskirts of Bloemfontein on Dec. 18, 2012
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Striking miners gather on a hillside at the Lonmin mine near Marikana, South Africa, Aug. 15, 2012. The strike is part of a bitter turf war between rival trade unions, and even before Thursday's shooting, some ten people had been killed since workers downed tools last Friday.
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Unpublished. While in Africa in 1960, Graham preached in stadiums, on banana plantations and in mud huts. One place he did not preach was South Africa. He was a vocal opponent of apartheid and insisted on desegregated seating at his rallies in Africa, as he did in the American South and everywhere else he preached. Sometimes, as in this photo, the crowds were largely white, sometimes largely black and sometimes thoroughly integrated.
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A protester licks his spear outside the Lonmin platinum mine in Rustenburg, South Africa, August 16, 2012. South African police opened fire on Thursday against thousands of striking miners, armed with machetes and sticks, leaving more than 30 dead.
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Police open fire on miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Police said the miners had refused an ultimatum to disarm, and had resisted efforts to disperse them through firing tear gas and water cannon. Video footage shows the strikers charging towards the police, who are then shown firing wildly into the crowd
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Striking mineworkers are caught in teargas as police open fire on striking miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. An unknown number of people have been killed and injured. Police moved in on workers who gathered on a rocky outcropping near the Lonmin late afternoon, firing unknown ammunition and teargas.
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A farm worker harvesting rooibos tea at the Elandsberg Eco Tourism fields in Clanwilliam, South Africa on Feb. 13, 2012. Farmers fear that climate change could destroy the delicate eco-system that their crops depend on.
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Staff from South Africa's Standard Bank show a newly signed client how to use mobile phone banking as part of a drive to take banking to poorer areas in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, June 28, 2011.
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A blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, is shown in this March 2008 file photo in the Indian Ocean off Aliwal Shoal, South Africa. Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark
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Two couples lie cuffed near their car after they were arrested by members of the South Africa Police Services for robbing a church in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Refugees from north Africa are helped by Italian Guardia di Finanza officers as they arrive at the southern Italian island of Lampedusa April 6, 2011.
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South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the women's 800-m world championship in 2009
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South Africa's former police chief Jackie Selebi leaves court on the fourth day of his corruption trial in Johannesburg on Oct. 8, 2009
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South Africa's teenage 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya outside her home in Limpopo.
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South Africa's Caster Semenya, right, wins the gold medal in the women's 800 m final at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress President Jacob Zuma
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South Africa's ruling party leader Jacob Zuma says he can smell victory in general elections, addressing 2,000 cheering supporters at the African National Congress party headquarters on April 23, 2009.
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe at a press conference in Johannesburg on Sept. 22
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South Africa's ruling party ANC president Jacob Zuma leaves the Pietermaritzburg High Court at the end of his first day of hearing on his corruption case, August 4, 2008.
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REFRAMING AFRICA: Minghella, at center, on the set of No. 1 Ladies' in Gaborone, Botswana
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South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki (L) chats with newly elected ANC President Jacob Zuma.
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Into Africa: On his first trip to the continent, Bush is focusing on oil and national security
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki applauds Paul Kagame of Rwanda, left, and Joseph Kabila of the Congo
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Can Africa consign its colonial baggage to the past?
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"OUT OF AFRICA:" Ngugi has been writing in exile for 24 years
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Out Of Africa: Illegal immigrants detained on the Italian island of Lampedusa were flown promptly back to Tripoli
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Visitors of South Africa's Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg look at exhibits.
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MAPPED OUT: Africa's recoverable crude oil reserves may be increasingly important
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French soldiers arrive at Bangui airport, Central Africa Republic.
American soldiers in North Africa during the Allied Tunisia Campaign, 1943.
American soldiers in North Africa during the Allied Tunisia Campaign, 1943.
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Reeva Steenkamp in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Reeva Steenkamp in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Reeva Steenkamp in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Oscar Pistorius attends a court hearing at the Pretoria magistrates court, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2013.
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Around 15,000 crocodiles have escaped from a farm in South Africa.
Albert Schweitzer supervises the building of a hospital in Gabon, West Africa, 1954.
Albert Schweitzer supervises the building of a hospital in Gabon, West Africa, 1954.
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An Asian toad that was found inside a candlestick at a Cape Town South Africa store.
A pair of lions in the wild in Africa, 1966.
A pair of lions in the wild in Africa, 1966.
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The new dinosaur dwarf Pegomastax from South Africa.
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Karen Hultzer, an archer from South Africa, publicly acknowledged that she is a lesbian during the London Olympics.
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Karen Hultzer, an archer from South Africa, publicly acknowledged that she is a lesbian during the London Olympics.
The Pop Up Hotel
In England, the Pop-Up Hotel is borrowing a page from Africa’s luxury safaris by setting up custom-designed canvas tents for car races, concerts and other outdoor events.
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Giniel De Villiers of South Africa drives his Volkswagen Touareg during the fourth stage of the 2011 South American Dakar Rally.
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Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela celebrates his 92nd birthday with family and friends
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President Barack Obama delivers a speech on Mideast and North Africa policy in the Ben Franklin Room at the State Department May 19, 2011 in Washington, DC.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
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The EA Sports 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa video game
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Oscar Pistorius of South Africa wins the 200m T44 for Men at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games on September 21, 2004 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
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CHEERS: For South Africa, the key is less volume, better quality
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Hillary Clinton at the opening of the eighth Africa Growth Opportunity Act Conference in Nairobi on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009
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The Congo River in Western Central Africa.
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USA soccer fans watch the televised 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa match between USA and Ghana at Jack Demsey's bar on June 26, 2010 in New York City.
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Pope Benedict XVI prior to his departure for Africa, a trip that includes stops in Cameroon and Angola
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GREEN QUEEN: The Euphoria course in South Africa was the second designed by Sorenstam
"NEW HEIGHTS:" South Africa's Constitutional Court
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GRAPE EXPECTATIONS: From Australia to Africa to Europe, vineyards are producing more wine than they can sell
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STIRRUP CUPS: Riders explore South Africa's wine region
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AIDS activists on Friday celebrated the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths by promoting nutritional supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV
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"FREE MAN:" Former South Africa President Jacob Zuma waves to supporters outside the court in Pietermaritzburg
Maureen Namatovu, a Ugandan contestant on Big Brother Africa 2
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, and the President of South Africa Jacob Zuma with his wife Tobeka Madiba Zuma, left, look at a chess set given to the Queen by Nelson Mandela in 1996
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Delegates arrive at Lisbon's International Fair pavillion for the E.U.-Africa summit
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A mob chants in the Reiger Park settlement outside Johannesburg, South Africa, May 20, 2008.
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View of mountains and rice field under a cloudy sky, Madagascar, Africa.
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MACOZOMA: He says he's trying to transform South Africa's boardrooms the way he helped change its government
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CENTRE STAGE: Chinese President Hu Jintao on a 2006 tour of Africa
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UPLIFT: Bono and fan at an AIDS benefit in South Africa
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A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP: Blair and Geldof play a duet on Africa
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HEY-YOU'RE...: The seventh fan to recognize Chappelle in South Africa
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At 49, Tokyo Gabriel Sexwale is one of South Africa's most prominent black entrepreneurs.
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An epidemic: HIV+ woman in Khutsong, South Africa
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AIDS activists celebrate at a news conference in Pretoria, South Africa
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ANIMATED: Sauvalie, at right, wants to 'toon up Africa New Image A small Dakar animation firm has Disney-size dreams
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O'Neill (right) and Bono wear traditional Ghanaian outfits in West Africa
Not published in LIFE. American troops, North Africa, 1943.
Not published in LIFE. American troops, North Africa, 1943.
Caption from LIFE. “Cactus-camouflaged half-track guards an armored division command post in North Africa,” 1943.
Caption from LIFE. "Cactus-camouflaged half-track guards an armored division command post in North Africa," 1943.
Not published in LIFE. American Lt. Gen. (later General) George S. Patton in North Africa during WWII, 1943.
Not published in LIFE. American Lt. Gen. (later General) George S. Patton in North Africa during WWII, 1943.
Not published in LIFE. Camouflaged American artillery fires on German positions during Allied campaign in North Africa during WWII.
Not published in LIFE. Camouflaged American artillery fires on German positions during Allied campaign in North Africa during WWII.
Douglas A-20 intruders in formation, about to bomb enemy position in Tunisia during Allied campaign in North Africa, WWII, 1943.
Douglas A-20 intruders in formation, about to bomb enemy position in Tunisia during Allied campaign in North Africa, WWII, 1943.
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Oscar Pistorius at the Pretoria Magistrates court on Feb. 22, 2013, in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Carl Pistorius looks on at his brother Oscar's bail application hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013.
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Oscar Pistorius stands during a break in court proceedings at the Pretoria Magistrate Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 20, 2013
Not originally published in LIFE. Albert Schweitzer in Africa, 1954.
Not originally published in LIFE. Albert Schweitzer in Africa, 1954.
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Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands during his bail hearing at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
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Detective Hilton Botha sits in court during a break in proceedings at a courtroom in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 21, 2013
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Oscar Pistorius in court during his bail application in the Pretoria Magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa on Feb. 19, 2013.
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Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp at the Feather Awards on November 4, 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Oscar Pistorius weeps in court at his bail hearing in the murder case of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in Pretoria, South Africa on Feb. 15, 2013.
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<strong>Electioneering</strong><br>Mandela greets the crowds on the campaign trail in February 1994 as South Africa readies for its first all-race general election.
Caption from LIFE. “Premiere Jan Christian Smuts represents the Dominion of South Africa.”
Caption from LIFE. "Premiere Jan Christian Smuts represents the Dominion of South Africa."
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Mine workers attend a memorial service at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Aug. 23, 2012.
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