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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE - In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, reserve bank governor Gill Marcus displays bank notes bearing the image of former president Nelson Mandela, in Pretoria, South Africa. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the gorvenrment has been tainted by corruption scandals.(AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE : in this photo taken Tuesday De. 18 2012 a child passes a souvenir stand selling garments with some bearing portraits of former president Nelson Mandela, left, in the tourist hub of Soweto, South Africa where Mandela once lived. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the government has been tainted by corruption scandals. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
This cartoon supplied by the artist depicts South Africa president Jacob Zuma, left, holding a clothes hanger from which the once robust former president nelson Mandela dangles limply, eyelids sagging. This cartoon by Dov Fedler , which appeared last month, makes light of a visit Zuma, had with Mandela. After the encounter at Mandela’s home, Zuma cheerily said the 94-year-old was up and about, in good spirits and doing well. But the images carried by state TV showed Mandela sitting with a blanket covering his legs, silent and unmoving with his cheeks showing what appear to be marks from a recently removed oxygen mask. Mandela did not acknowledge Zuma, who sat right next to Mandela. The footage unsettled some viewers who considered the visit to be a stunt to make Zuma look good. The ANC insisted it had no ulterior motive ahead of elections next year, and that it was only showing respect for a living national treasure. (AP Photo/Dov Fedler) SOUTH AFRICA OUT
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE : In this image taken from video, South African President Jacob Zuma, left, sits with the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. Mandela was treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection. South African President Jacob Zuma visited the former leader on April 29, but Mandela does not appear to speak during the televised portion of the visit, as he sits in an armchair, his head propped up by a pillow and with his cheeks showing what appear to be marks from a recently removed oxygen mask, although Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela “in good shape and in good spirits”. After the encounter at Mandela’s home, Zuma cheerily said the 94-year-old was up and about, in good spirits and doing well. (AP Photo/SABC TV) SOUTH AFRICA OUT
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Posted: 5/17/2013 8:29:35 PM EST
Charl Schwartzel of South Africa chips onto the 14th green during the second round of the Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament Friday, May 17, 2013, in Irving, Texas. Schwartzel ended the day at 7 under par for the tournament. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 11:58:08 AM EST
FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 file photo Bambatha Mandela, grandson of former president Nelson Mandela, takes part in an initiation ceremony in Qunu, South Africa in a traditional Xhosa rite of passage to manhood. South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests. (AP Photo, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 5:04:41 PM EST
Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa hits from a sand trap on the second hole during second round play in the 2013 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 12, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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Posted: 5/12/2013 4:17:45 PM EST
FILE - This Monday, July 10, 2006 file photo provided by the Bill & Meliada Gates Foundation shows Tatomkhulu-Xhosa, left, explaining to Bill and Melinda Gates, right, how he has lived with and been treated for tuberculosis in recent years at the Khayelitsha Site B Clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. Bill and Melinda Gates are in South Africa to learn more about efforts to fight TB and HIV/AIDS in the country. According to the latest rankings compiled by the Foundation Center, the Rockefeller Foundation is the 16th largest, with total assets of $3.5 billion, compared to $34.6 billion for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (AP Photo/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sharon Farmer, File)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 12:20:04 PM EST
ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - This Monday, July 10, 2006 photo provided by the Bill & Meliada Gates Foundation shows Tatomkhulu-Xhosa, left, explaining to Bill and Melinda Gates, right, how he has lived with and been treated for tuberculosis in recent years at the Khayelitsha Site B Clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. Bill and Melinda Gates are in South Africa to learn more about efforts to fight TB and HIV/AIDS in the country. According to the latest rankings compiled by the Foundation Center, the Rockefeller Foundation is the 16th largest, with total assets of $3.5 billion, compared to $34.6 billion for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (AP Photo/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sharon Farmer)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:55:21 PM EST
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 file photo Australia's Bernard Tomic plays a shot to Kevin Anderson of South Africa during the men's final at the Sydney International tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia. Bernard Tomic's hitting partner Thomas Drouet has called for the father of the Australian tennis player to be banned after he was allegedly assaulted on Saturday May 4, 2013. John Tomic has been charged with assault after allegedly headbutting Drouet ahead of this week's Madrid Open. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
In this photo taken Friday May 3, 2013 a woman produces cassava flour from cassava in a market in Lagos, Nigeria. Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into Nigeria, the world’s biggest producer of the potato-like root that helps feed 500 million Africans. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
In this photo taken Friday, May 3, 2013. a woman peels cassava to make cassava flour in a Market in Lagos, Nigeria. Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into Nigeria, the world's biggest producer of the potato-like root that helps feed 500 million Africans. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
In this photo taken Friday, May 3, 2013, people prepare food made from cassava flour in a market in Lagos, Nigeria. Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into Nigeria, the world's biggest producer of the potato-like root that helps feed 500 million Africans. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
In this photo taken Friday, May 3, 2013. a woman peels cassava to make cassava flour in a Market in Lagos, Nigeria. Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into Nigeria, the world's biggest producer of the potato-like root that helps feed 500 million Africans. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Posted: 5/4/2013 1:18:22 PM EST
Ernie Els of South Africa holds the ball on the 18th hole during the third round of the Indonesian Masters golf tournament at Royale Golf Club in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, May 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
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Posted: 5/3/2013 3:48:39 PM EST
In this photo supplied by The New Age newspaper of South Africa and taken Thursday May 2, 2013, guests watch as the bridal couple, Vega Gupta, centre right, and Aakash Jahajgarhia, are pulled across a pool on a float at Sun City's Palace of the Lost City, South Africa, during their wedding ceremony. The self-proclaimed "wedding of the century" has become a public relations disaster for the government since a private jet appears to have received diplomatic courtesies, allegedly bypassing customs procedures, when the jet landed the wedding party at the military Waterkloof Air Force Base near Pretoria, South Africa. The jet landed Tuesday angering many South Africans who see the scandal as a case of cronyism linking big business and government and igniting accusations that security laws were breached. (AP Photo/The New Age)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 10:53:22 AM EST
FILE - In this undated photo supplied by International Fund For Animal Welafre (IFAW), orphaned black rhinos square up after their release into a holding boma at Addo National Park, 50 miles north-east of Port Elizabeth, South Africa after each was abandoned at birth. Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction, or to the brink of extinction, by poachers seeking their horns for sale in Asia. (AP Photo/Jon Hrusa, IFAW, File)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 1:13:11 PM EST
Members of the South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF) carry the mortal remains of 13 members that were killed in Central African Republic (CAR) during the handing over to the respective families at the Waterkloof Air Force Base, in Pretoria, March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
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Posted: 4/30/2013 1:13:11 PM EST
Members of the South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF) carry the mortal remains of 13 members that were killed in Central African Republic (CAR) during the handing over to the respective families at the Waterkloof Air Force Base, in Pretoria, March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
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Posted: 4/29/2013 3:18:35 PM EST
In this image taken from video, South African President Jacob Zuma, centre left, sits with the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela, centre right, is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, with unidentified members of his family and his medical team as they pose together more than three weeks after Mandela was released from hospital. Mandela was treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection. South African President Jacob Zuma visited the former leader on Monday, but Mandela does not appear to speak during the televised portion of the visit, as he sits in an armchair, his head propped up by a pillow and with his cheeks showing what appear to be marks from a recently removed oxygen mask, although Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela “in good shape and in good spirits”. (AP Photo/SABC TV) SOUTH AFRICA OUT
