Johannesburg (South Africa)

Nelson Mandela suffering from pneumonia, officials say

2013-03-30 09:37:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa’s presidency for the first time Saturday confirmed the seriousness of Nelson Mandela’s illness -- pneumonia -- as the former president prepared to spend a fourth night in the hospital. South...

Nelson Mandela is hospitalized again for lung infection

2013-03-28 10:17:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Nelson Mandela was readmitted to a hospital after a worrying recurrence of the lung infection he suffered in December, the South African presidency announced Thursday. It was the third time Mandela, known affectionately...

Nelson Mandela home from hospital but still under medical care

2012-12-27 10:12:00

JOHANNESBURG -- South Africans heaved a sigh of relief as their beloved anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, was sent home from the hospital. The office of President Jacob Zuma said Mandela would continue to get medical treatment at his home in the...

PASSINGS: Fyodor Khitruk, James R. Whelan, Arthur Chaskalson

2012-12-05 00:16:00

Fyodor Khitruk Animated Soviet version of 'Winnie the Pooh' Fyodor Khitruk, 95, a prominent Russian animator and director who created the Soviet Union's cartoon version of A.A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh stories, died Monday in Moscow,...

South Africans outraged by police killing of 34 striking miners

2012-08-17 10:22:31

After shootings, South Africa warns mines to do more for workers

2012-09-03 09:53:29

South African arrest warrant reportedly issued for Julius Malema

2012-09-21 11:13:26

As one Somali journalist is buried, a top poet and comedian is slain

2012-10-30 11:54:14

Police reportedly open fire on striking South African miners

2012-08-16 11:42:38

26 laborers killed in South Africa as train hits truck

2012-07-13 16:34:34

Jailed former South African police chief Selebi gets medical parole

2012-07-20 16:35:11

Phillip Tobias dies at 86; South African expert on early man

2012-06-08 00:00:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Phillip Tobias, a renowned South African paleoanthropologist and expert on early man and hominids, died Thursday. He was 86. Tobias died in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness, according to South Africa's...

President Mandela with Pope John Paul II in Johannesburg during the pontiff's first official visit to South Africa.

2013-03-09 10:10:00

Nonstop service from Johannesburg, South Africa, to New York's JFK airport is a 16 hour trip, 7,970 miles are traversed, which is taken in consideration. In coach, the 2-4-2 seat configuration reduces the number of middle seats that regularly appear on planes with 3-3-3 arrangements.

2012-04-04 15:49:00

It takes four pilots and two separate flight crews to handle Delta Flight 200 from Atlanta, Ga., to Johannesburg, South Africa. The Boeing 777LR used to make this trip travels 8,433 miles for 16 hours, 15 minutes.

2012-04-04 15:49:00