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Africa
Musk Condemns South African Political Song on White Farmers
Elon Musk has taken to what was formerly known as Twitter to slam the use of the EFF's (Economic Freedom Fighters) anthem "Kill the Boer, kill the white farmer" on Saturday. In occasion of the tenth anniversary of the...
Africa
George Bizos: The Greek Lawyer Who Saved Nelson Mandela
George Bizos, the Greek-South African human rights lawyer, who died on September 9, 2020, fought apartheid and saved Nelson Mandela from a death sentence.
Along with serving as Nelson Mandela’s lawyer, George Bizos was also one of the three writers...
Greek News
Desmond Tutu, a Symbol of the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Dies at 90
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a symbol of South Africa's anti-Apartheid struggle a laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, died on Sunday in Cape Town. He was 90.
Tutu was the Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then the Archbishop...
Diaspora
George Bizos: The Lawyer Who Saved Nelson Mandela Honored in Greece
George Bizos, the Greek-South African human rights lawyer who fought apartheid and saved Nelson Mandela from a death sentence during the Rivonia Trial, died on September 9, 2020.
In honor of the great lawyer, residents of Bizos's hometown of Vasilitsi...
Greek news
S. Africa: Children Welcome Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
Over 200 students from Jabavu East Primary School in Johannesburg, South Africa, waved Greek and South African flags, and sang the national anthems of Greece and their country, welcoming Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria and All Africa.
Jabavu East Primary School...
Cyprus
Vanishing Cyprus: Long Road to Reunification
The Anastasiades government is determined to resolve the Cyprus issue one way or another. This is probably an IMF EU-Troika mnimonio memorandum condition that no politician dares to talk about openly. It is not certain, but public sentiment indicates...
Economy
Tsipras Presses Rehn on Debt Relief
It wasn't a receptive audience, but Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, meeting in Strasbourg, France with European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, told him that Greece can't afford to...
Art
Greek Expat’s Award-Winning Photo of Mandela
In 1990, only few years after he was set free, Nelson Mandela went on a tour in Australia. The photographer who covered the event of Mandela’s visit for the newspaper “Neos Kosmos” was Antonis Baxevanakis. In fact, one of...
Greece
The Greek Who Saved Nelson Mandela
George Bizos, the Greek lawyer and good friend of Nelson Mandela, during a past visit to Athens had reveled details of his life and his relationship with Mandela.
Bizos, was born in 1928 in the village Vasilitsi, in Messinia. In...
Diaspora
Greek PM and IOC Bid Farewell to Nelson Mandela
The International Olympic Committee, IOC on its official twitter account, said farewell to the former leader of South Africa, Nelson Mandela by uploading a photo.
The photo was “full” from Greece, as “Madiba” is depicted holding the torch of the...