Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at first advocated peaceful opposition to white rule in early work with the African National Congress, a liberation movement.
The 69-year-old Anglican archbishop won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his role in fighting white rule and he helped bring international attention to the injustices of apartheid.
Police killed 34 striking workers at the Marikana platinum in South Africa's North West province in August, in the most deadly security force action since white rule ended in 1994.
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Archbishop Tutu campaigned against white minority rule and was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mandela became president of South Africa on May 10, 1994, after decades of white minority rule.
The ANC, which has governed South Africa since white minority rule ended in 1994, is widely expected to win nationwide elections due in 2014.
Mr Mandela, who stepped down as president in 1999, is revered in South Africa for his role in ending the system of apartheid, or white minority rule.
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As well as the 13 dead, another 27 soldiers were injured - the highest number of casualties suffered by South Africa's army since white minority rule ended in 1994.
He led the struggle against white-minority rule before being elected the first black president in democratic elections in 1994.
Last year, when the House Republicans were passing the cut, cap and balance rule, the White House called it an empty political statement.
Moreover, there is an exception to the general rule that Democrats did badly among white men.
The SEC hasn't indicated if Ms. White will recuse herself from enforcement actions or rule-making procedures tied to companies deeper in her past.
Reid and Durbin said Burris' certificate, since it lacks White's signature, violates a Senate rule that has been in place since the 19th century.
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The president will spend the coming days advocating the so-called Buffett rule detailed in his budget, said White House officials.
Ms. White said she planned to focus on the Volcker rule, the Dodd-Frank rule named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker that bans proprietary trading at banks.
Other Democrats, including the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the White House could calm things down if it would rule out prosecuting former top Bush Administration officials and just let a Senate investigation run its course.
W. de Klerk's government brought most white South Africans reluctantly round to the idea of black majority rule.
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Governance Studies at the The Brookings Institution, suggested in 2001 that as a rule of thumb an incoming president need have their White House appointments -- their immediate inner circle -- in place by Thanksgiving (November 27) and Cabinet staff by Christmas (December 25).
Or the White House budget and regulatory office could require the EPA to repropose the rule with more flexibility.
State high school associations are going to have to be ready to look at their rule books, and make them less black-and-white when it comes to eligibility.
John White has also committed not to directly engage with the SEC in its rule-writing, to sell his shares in several investment funds and to change his partnership in Cravath so that he doesn't share in the firm's profits but receives fixed compensation.
And thanks to the efforts of Dan Rooney, an older white owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers with a good heart, the Rooney Rule that he authored while NFL chair of diversity, and its progeny in the name of Tony Dungy, the ideal has had application in professional football.
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Tina Kreisher, an Interior Department spokeswoman, could not confirm whether the rule would be published before the deadline, saying only that the White House was still reviewing it.
Karel Van Miert, a Belgian who is responsible for antitrust policy, has completed a white paper on reforms to the working of competition law, and hopes to rule on a weighty list of mergers before his term is up.
What about the rule that female guests should never slip into a dress in any shade of white to a wedding?
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If confirmed, the Volcker rule "is one thing I'm going to turn my personal attention to, " Ms. White said.
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