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Cape Town. Michael Stipe, lead vocalist of the band REM, performs at a concert in the city, as part of their "Around the Sun" world tour.
South Africa's first lady of song, Miriam Makeba performs at the 7th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival. This performance is to be part of "Mama Africa's" final tour, before she retired. Makeba died in 2008.
Barack Obama, US senator for Illinois, on Robben Island, now a museum, about six kilometres from the city, in Table Bay. Obama, a US presidential possibility, was visiting the island prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for about 18 years, as part of a larger visit to the country.
Nelson Mandela, at home, before a Mandela Rhodes Fellowship event. The MRF is one of Mandela's charity organisations.
South African President, Thabo Mbeki speaks during the World Economic Forum on Africa Meeting in Cape Town.
Cape Town. Renowned astrophycisist, Professor Stephen Hawking, was the keynote speaker, at an event, where eminent scientists discussed where the next Einstein would come from. Hawking is disabled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Renowned playright, Atholl Fugard in the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town.
The Dalai Lama during his first visit to Cape Town.
South Africa Cape Town. Cesaria Evora, acclaimed singer from Cape Verde, performs in the city's annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
South African president, Nelson Mandela, on the steps of Tuynhuys, in Parliament, Cape Town , during the US president, Bill Clinton's, first state visit to South Africa
South Africa Cape Town. Alleged mafia figure, Vito Palazzolo, outside the Wynberg magistrates court.
Peter Toerien, South African theatre stalwart, and director of the Theatre on the Bay, in Camps Bay, Cape Town.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , during the first hearings of the TRC, in Cape Town.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC), listens to particularly upsetting testimony during the first hearings of the TRC, in Cape Town.