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☆ From true crimes to terror: When is ‘dark tourism’ too dark?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( David Allan | David G. Allan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, the site where 168 people were killed by a bombing that remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history. Berk Ozkan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Visitors walk in the ghost city of Pripyat during a tour in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the site of Ukraine's 1986 nuclear disaster. And somewhere in between is the subjective line that dark tourism dances around. Dark tourism (also known as memorial tourism, or thanatourism, from the Greek “Thanatos” meaning death, or more derogatorily as morbid tourism, or grief tourism) comes in various shades. In the end, you may be the only one who can judge the ethics of visiting these places.

Persons: Jim Jones, Leo Ryan, Patrick Fort, John F, Kennedy, Adrees Latif, Chris J, Ratcliffe, Christopher Furlong, Craig F, Walker, Spencer Platt, Evelyn Hockstein, Anne Frank, Lex Van Lieshout, Jack the, Mark Kerrison, Kim Kyung, Berk Ozkan, Genya Savilov, Tang Chhin Sothy, Nelson Mandela, Wolfgang Kaehler, Ciro De Luca, Martin Luther King Jr, Carlo Allegri, Davy Crockett, Nicole Brown Simpson, You’ve, Lyle, Erik Menendez, David Swanson, Simpson, Manson, Vesuvius, Jack, Sebastian Junger, Anne Frank House, Frank, Koen Van Weel, I’ve, Anne Frank’s Organizations: CNN, Jim Jones ’ Peoples, Dealey Plaza, Reuters, Bloomberg, Getty, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, Boston Globe, Museum, Reuters Alcatraz, Anadolu Agency, National Civil Rights Museum, North Atlantic, Alamo, National Park Service, Nazi, ”, Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC, The National Civil Rights Museum Locations: San Francisco, American, Guyana, Jonestown, AFP, Dallas, Bogside, Londonderry, Derry, Northern Ireland, Poland, Nazi Germany, Europe, New York City, Stoystown , Pennsylvania, Amsterdam, London, Hiroshima Peace, Japan, Canakkale, Turkey, Pripyat, Khmer Rouge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Robben Island, South Africa, Pompeii, Vesuvius, Memphis , Tennessee, North, San Antonio , Texas, Los Angeles, Gettysburg, France, Khmer, Savannah , Georgia, Beverly Hills , California, Washington, Pompei, Italy, Gloucester , Massachusetts, Netherlands, Bergen, Alcatraz, Hiroshima

☆ Opinion: How South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma used Trump’s playbook – and lost
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Opinion Sean Jacobs | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

But the figure of former President Jacob Zuma and his new political party uMkhonto – or simply “MK” – provoked more reaction. Jerome Delay/APMoreover, according to Herman, pro-Zuma conspiracy theories and propaganda, some with Russian fingerprints, had been flooding South African social media in the lead-up to the election. And even as Zuma takes pages from Trump’s playbook, South Africans may be telling a different narrative. Facing pressure, Zuma resigned as South African president in 2018. Though some South Africans still admire the US’ capitalist spirit, I find that the South African friends who visit me in the US don’t always feel at ease anymore.

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☆ South Africa’s democracy is turning 30 – but a silent crisis threatens its hard-fought gains
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( David Mckenzie | Sarah Dean | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Soweto, South Africa CNN —Seth Mazibuko strides into the intersection of Moema and Vilakazi Street in Soweto, gesturing to the spot that changed South African history. Cars are used as roadblocks on June 21, 1976, during unrest in Soweto, South Africa, stemming from protests against the use of Afrikaans in schools. But as South Africans celebrate 30 years of democracy this week, many educators and activists believe that there is a crisis hollowing out the country’s education system – a crisis that threatens democracy’s hard-fought gains. Despite substantial education funding, South African students consistently rank among the lowest in global assessments of literacy and numeracy skills. South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in the world and many university graduates struggle to enter the workforce.

Persons: South Africa CNN — Seth, ”, Mazibuko, Mike Mizleni, Prince Mulwela, Angie Motshekga, Motshekga, Nelson Mandela, Walter Dhladhla, it’s, Ann Bernstein, Bernstein, Morris Isaacson, “, ‘, ’, General, Mbali Msimanga, Atlegang Alcock, Mandela Organizations: South Africa CNN, Black South, Getty, Keystone, Hulton, “, Morris Isaacson High School, CNN, South, Basic, African National Congress, ANC, of Development, Enterprise, Corruption, South African Democratic Teachers Union, Cape Town Locations: Soweto, South Africa, Moema, gesturing, AFP, Africa, Canada, Kenya, Oshlange, Black, Durban, South Africa's, Johannesburg, Robben, Cape

☆ Time Out reveals world’s best cities for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Perhaps it’s no wonder, then, that media company Time Out has named New York City as its best city for 2024. Time Out surveyed some 20,000 city-dwellers across the world, alongside its network of global writers and editors, to compile its latest round-up of the best cities in the globe. Smaller cities in the top 10 include Liverpool, UK (number 7) and Porto, Portugal (number 10). New York City, USA2. Cape Town, South Africa3.

Persons: CNN —, Katy Scott, Scott, ”, “, ” Scott, Grace Beard Organizations: CNN, New, Cape, Theatre, . New Locations: New York City, ”, York, Cape Town , South Africa, Cape Town, France, South Africa, Cape, Robben, Berlin, Germany, London, Madrid, Spain, Liverpool, Porto, Portugal, . New York City, USA, Mexico City, Mexico, Tokyo, Japan, Rome, Italy

☆ Auction of Nelson Mandela Items Set After Court Fight With Government
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Matt Stevens | More About Matt Stevens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter is moving forward with an auction next month of the former president’s personal belongings after a two-year legal battle with the South African government, which had tried to block such a sale saying the items were artifacts of national heritage. The proposed sale had drawn attention when it was announced in 2021. South African officials balked, objecting in particular to the sale of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Mr. Mandela was held. Proceeds from the auction are intended to finance a memorial garden honoring Mr. Mandela, who dedicated most of his life to emancipating South Africa from white minority rule, the organizers said. He died in 2013 at 95, 23 years after his release from prison and 19 years after he was elected president.

Persons: Nelson Mandela’s, Mandela Organizations: South Locations: South Africa

☆ Luyanda Mpahlwa’s pioneering architectural journey fuels social upliftment in South Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Lauren Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —As a young boy growing up in the 1960s in Mthatha, South Africa, Luyanda Mpahlwa loved to draw houses. Mpahlwa was among the first Black Africans permitted to study architecture in South Africa. “South Africa was in a state of emergency,” he said. There, he earned a master’s degree in architecture from the Technical University of Berlin in 1989 and began working for Pysall.Ruge, a design firm based in what is now the German capital. “The reality is the majority of people of South Africa live in conditions that are actually below what we should be defining as an urban environment,” he said.

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☆ Nelson Mandela: New book offers an intimate portrait of the South African leader
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Tom Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Yet a new book penned by his daughter aims to take a fresh perspective on the man behind the statesman. Published by maker of luxury tomes Rizzoli, “Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life” is a photographic account of the man and his family. In an email to CNN, Dr. Mandela said she wrote the book “so that people have a better understanding of who he was (and) what formed him as a human being. “I understood my father a bit better in terms of the sacrifices that he made,” Dr. Mandela said. “Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life” is published by Rizzoli and on sale in the US and UK now.

Persons: Nelson, “ Mandela, ”, Dr, Pumla Makaziwe Mandela, Evelyn Mase, Al Sharpton, Mandela, ” Dr, “ Tata ”, “ Organizations: CNN, Rizzoli Locations: South Africa, Johannesburg, Qunu, Eastern, Robben

☆ Trump rages as former acolytes turn against him under legal heat
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

She was the third former Trump acolyte to agree to testify against the ex-president and others this week. “If I knew then what I knew now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. One of Trump’s former associates was feeling no remorse when he arrived in court in New York on Tuesday seeking to undermine another Trump legal defense. It has long been the case that while those around Trump in business and politics often find themselves slipping deep into legal trouble, he skips free. The apparent decisions of Meadows, Ellis and Cohen – together with the mass of legal threats now facing the former president – suggest that charmed life is about to meet its biggest challenge yet.

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