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Tuesday, 09 February 2010

South Africans hold memorial for "Mama Africa"

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans held a public memorial on Saturday for Miriam Makeba, one of Africa's best-known voices and a champion of the fight against apartheid during three decades in exile. Girls from the Makeba Center for Girls leave the stage after paying tribute during singer Miriam Makeba?s memorial service in Johannesburg November 15, 2008. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko Makeba, 76, fell ill and died after a concert...

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Mourners attend a memorial service for South African singing legend Miriam Makeba in Johannesburg, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. Makeba died last week in Italy after suffering a heart attack at the end of a concert

photo: AP / Denis Farrell

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