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19:22:38 SU TED KOPPEL. 19:23:19 INTV/W MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC LEADER DELLAH OMAR, A FRIEND OF SOUTH AFRICAN LEADER NELSON MANDELA. REVERSAL. REFEEDS. 19:34:35 INTV/W AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) LEADER WALTER SISULU ABOUT THE IMPENDING PRISON RELEASE OF MANDELA. SU'S KOPPEL. 19:40:44 INTV/W MINISTER OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT GERRIT VILJOEN ABOUT MANDELA'S LEADERSHIP QUALITIES. 19:46:44 SLATE TO THE END. CI: PERSONALITIES: MANDELA, NELSON (ABOUT). PERSONALITIES: OMAR, DELLAH. PERSONALITIES: SISULU, WALTER. PERSONALITIES: VILJOEN, GERRIT.

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LONDON FEED. 14:33:50 ITN FTG OF SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKS GATHERED TOGETHER INSIDE A SOCCER STADIUM IN SOWETO. FTG OF AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) LEADER NELSON MANDELA ADDRESSING THE CROWD. FTG OF MANDELA WALKING WITH HIS WIFE WINNIE AND HIS SUPPORTERS. MORE FTG OF MANDELA MAKING A SPEECH. FTG OF SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONAL MINISTER DOCTOR GERRIT VILJOEN CONDUCTING A PRESS CONFERENCE. FTG OF BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER DURING A SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. 14:41:09 FTG OF VIOLENT CLASHES IN DUSHANBE IN SOVIET TAJIKISTAN BETWEEN CITIZENS AND SOVIET POLICE. 14:43:48 SLATE TO THE END. CI: PERSONALITIES: MANDELA, NELSON. PERSONALITIES: MANDELA, WINNIE. PERSONALITIES: THATCHER, MARGARET. PERSONALITIES: VILJOEN, GERRIT. CIVIL RIGHTS: BLACKS, SOUTH AFRICA. RIOTS: TAJIKISTAN.

<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>:00 </p>\n<p>Naledi Pandor</p>\n<p>South African Minister of International Relations</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:24 </p>\n<p>Eleni Giokos</p>\n<p>Abu Dhabi, UAE </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations: We clearly get a sense that more work is going to be done, the merits of the case are going to be heard. So there'll be a deeper look into the war and how it has been conducted. So, I think for us, the victory is that there's recognition that we've made a case.</p>\n<p>Eleni Giokos, Abu Dhabi, UAE: We've also just spoken to and I a short while ago spoke to the senior advisor to Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who told me, Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza is not going to change despite this ruling. What is your response to that?</p>\n<p>Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations: Well, the decisions of the court are before the world to see and it is now for the friends of Israel to make a judgment as to whether they continue arm in arm with Israel when it is clear that great harm is being done to innocent Palestinians. So, I live in hope that Israel will act in accord with the decisions and will show the court that it does take the court seriously. If it doesn't, what happens is we are opening up room for all to act with impunity against innocent people, and I certainly don't wish to live in a world like that.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--CNN INFORMATION</b>--</p>\n<p>ICJ ruling ‘not a total victory’ but is now there for ‘the world to see,’ South African FM tells CNN</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Decisons reached by the International Court of Justice on Friday do not constitute a "total victory," but are "before the world to see,” South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told CNN.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“It is now for the friends of Israel to make a judgment as to whether they continue arm in arm with Israel when it is clear that great harm is being done to innocent Palestinians,” the foreign minister said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>South Africa had accused Israel of violating international laws on genocide in its war in Gaza, and wanted the Court to order a halt in fighting.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The top UN court ruled Israel must act immediately to prevent genocide in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for a ceasefire in the war-torn enclave.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Friday's decision by ICJ is not a ruling on whether Israel’s actions constitute genocide.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Pandor told CNN’s Eleni Giokos that “more work is going to be done,” as “the merits of the case are going to be heard.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“The victory is that there's recognition that we've made a case,” she added.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“So I live in hope that Israel will act in accord with the decisions and will show the court that it does take the court seriously,” Pandor told CNN.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“If it doesn't, what happens is we are opening up room for all to act with impunity against innocent people. And I certainly don't wish to live in a world like that,” she added.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The minister also said she believed a ceasefire would be “necessary” for Israel to abide by the Court’s demands of minimizing civilian casualties and get more aid into Gaza..</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Asked whether she felt South Africa could be ostracized by its traditional allies, the foreign minister said she felt “quite frankly concerned,” after over 200 US lawmakers co-signed a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling South Africa’s case against Israel “grossly unfounded.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“I think the United States of America does carry a duty to uphold human rights and all of us have that duty,” she said. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Pandor also shared her view about the way forward for Palestinians after the war, drawing a parallel with South Africa’s history.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“I'm old enough to have knowledge of various leaders of the apartheid state who believe that they would rule forever,” she told CNN’s Eleni Giokos.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“I know from our own experience and I tell the Palestinian people this, I know that you must not give up. I know that freedom will come. I know that justice will happen,” she said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“I think the reason that South Africa acted in this way, is because all of us, South Africans are the Children of Mandela and we have to show the world that we care about others,” she concluded.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>SOUTH AFRICA ICJ RULING ISRAEL HAMAS WAR GAZA PALESTINE COURT </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH UPON RECEIVING A REPLICA OF THE IWO JIMA MEMORIAL AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS.

FTG FOR CS ON SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW CONSTITUTION. 05:32:31 MS OF AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA GLADHANDING OFFICIALS IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. 05:32:37 MS OF MANDELA SHAKING HANDS W/ SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT FW DE KLERK NEAR OTHERS. REPORTER AUDIO. 05:32:41 WS OF CHAMBER AS OFFICIALS EXIT AREA FOLLOWING NEGOTIATIONS LEADING TO A NEW CONSTITUTION FOR SOUTH AFRICA. 05:32:47 TIGHT SHOT OF DE KLERK AT PODIUM AS HE DELIVERS SPEECH AND COMMENTS THAT THIS NEW ERA WILL INVOLVE MAKING ALL SOUTH AFRICANS 1 PEOPLE UNITED INTO 1 NATION. VS OF OFFICIALS. 05:33:02 WS OF OFFICIALS AT CIRCULAR TABLE AT NEGOTIATIONS. 05:33:09 MS OF MANDELA AT PODIUM AS HE DELIVERS SPEECH AND COMMENTS THAT MILLIONS WHO AREN'T ALLOWED TO VOTE WILL NOW DO SO INCLUDING HIMSELF. 05:33:22 HAS OF CHAMBER. 05:33:37 WS OF WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN EXTREMISTS IN UNIFORM AS THEY MARCH IN FORMATION IN STREET. 05:33:42 OUTDOOR IMPROMPTU PRESS CONFERENCE W/ UNIFORMED EXTREMIST LEADER WHO SAYS TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF CONFRONTATION AND IN THE END A WAR. 05:33:54 VS OF BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS WAVING CLUBS AND SABERS AS THEY DANCE OUTDOORS. 05:33:59 VS OF BLACK DEMONSTRATORS DANCING IN STREET AND HOLDING INKATHA PARTY BANNER. 05:34:04 WS OF BLACK DEMONSTRATORS AS THEY WAVE CLUBS AND SHIELDS. 05:34:09 RON ALLEN SU. REFEED. REPEAT FTG.

--SUPERS--
Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft

 --LEAD IN--
MICROSOFT"S CEO SATYA NADELLA SAYS IT"S HIS JOB TO STAND UP FOR THE RIGHTS OF HIS EMPLOYEES -- 
AND THAT EVERY CEO NEEDS A STRONG MORAL COMPASS TO SUCCEED.
HE TOLD CNN"S RICHARD QUEST THAT STANDING UP FOR WHAT"S RIGHT IS FUNDAMENTAL TO MICROSOFT"S SUCCESS.

 --REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--
"It"s existential for us as a business. For example, we say our mission is to empower people and organizations all over the planet to achieve more. It"s fantastic. And if we do not have that diversity represented in the company, there is no way we can produce anything of value to the world we want to serve. So it"s not just having the representation. But it"s the ability for them to fully participate. And, quite frankly, i look at -- let"s now take it outside of microsoft. Let"s talk about the united states. I"m a product of two amazingly unique things of the united states. One is its technology reaching me where i was growing up and letting me dream the dream. And it was the enlightened immigration policy of this country that let me live the dream. That"s what I think is precious about our country. Because it"s our competitive advantage. It"s not that we"re doing this for someone else. We"re doing it for our own country"s sake." 
"Are both of those under threat today in this country?"
"Look, the first thing i would say, though, is, before we talk about being under threat, let"s acknowledge that there is no other place, a story like mine would even be possible. Or like yours would be possible. Because this is a country that everybody seeks to come to. They want to participate. They want to contribute. Let"s start with that. And then say, yes, let"s preserve it. Let"s talk about the reform. Of course, the borders need to be protected. Every country does that. Let us, in fact, show both humanity and the smarts to use immigration to make us stronger."
"Right. But within this role, and i"m not trying to force you into criticizing the president. I"m trying to understand what you see your role is as the CEO of a major company when you see president, prime minister, whatever it might be, going what you believe is against your values. "
"And we"ve been very clear. In fact, take DACA, for example. We were very, very clear that we believed the D.R.E.A.M.Ers are contributing to microsoft. We have taken a pretty public stance that we will fight for their rights. So i believe companies like ours and ceos like me need to have a set of principles that really help us protect the enduring values. And ultimately move the courts and other, you know, avenues available. "
"Does that mean doing more interviews on controversial issues? Because so many ceos -- for example, if i take the travel ban or I take transgender or I take this latest one on race, and the NFL, it all -- the press statements come out. But by god, you can"t get anybody to put up an interview. Nobody wants to actually say in interview."
"One of the key things for us is to have the principle stance. But also, i think, we have got to be very mindful that nobody elected us. We"re CEOs of companies. And our job is to stand up for the principles and our employees, and, in fact, take a principle stance and be clear. But for us to cross that line and act as if we"re in the political arena would also be a mistake. In fact, it would be a mistake for any democracy to basically let that happen." 
"But CEOs are becoming the new moral compass in the world today. Would you agree? "
"i think that it"s important for anyone in power to have a moral compass and to be able to truly stand up for what are the enduring values of our country"s, our democracies."
"That"s beautifully avoided. But avoided it was. Are CEOs now responsible in ways they weren"t in previous years?"
"In fact, if anything, the one thing i have learned in the three-and-a-half years as being ceo is that it"s such a multiconstituent job. I mean, I had never thought -- oh, I thought, it"s about shareholders, employees, customers. Guess what? It"s about all of them, plus governments, about the broader world, all simultaneously happening. So, yes, you are absolutely right. No ceo can just say I"m, you know, somehow not impacted by what"s happening in society. And therefore, been clear about your position is going to be something you have to be -- you know, be clear and articulate on." 
"Which leaders do you admire? Which political leaders do you admire? Notice i"m not asking you who you don"t admire. Which political leaders have got that set of values, that leadership, that you admire?" 
"You know, i mean, the person that"s -- 
"That"s alive and in power. That"s alive and in power. I"m not having Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela."
"I was going to say Mandela, but -- "
"Yes. We wrote that one out."
"Look, I think the person I admire is what Merkel has done. I mean, look at what she has been able to do in Germany. The stance she took, be even. The enlightened stance she took about sort of the refugee crisis. I feel that she is someone who has led the country and led the country during difficult times of transition. And I think there"s a lot all of us can learn from her."
"Do you ever -- before we move on after leadership, do you ever just want to throw your hands up and say, i"m running a technology company. Stop asking me all these questions." 
"All of the time."
"About, you know, controversial issue, gay rights, women"s rights, the google manifesto. First -- you say here -- you even had to write to your board of directors, I concluded being bold in supporting the rights of american citizens to exercise their constitutional rights is consistent with microsoft"s values. You have to be an expert and ready to opine on every controversial issue of the day."
"I think that"s what one learns. That when you -- especially in a time like this, when technology is so much part of our lives, so much part of our economy and society. I think in particular tech companies and tech platform companies have to really stand up and step up to that role. That doesn"t mean we are experts. One thing that I sometimes think about is that, hey, you know, we"re not experts in this. Let us make sure we don"t overstep that. But there is that line." 
 -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----

 --KEYWORD TAGS--
CORPORATE MORAL COMPASS MICROSOFT



Illuminated charter granted by Edward VI, older charter granted by King Henry II about the year 1155.

FTG FOR CS ON SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW CONSTITUTION. 05:32:31 MS OF AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA GLADHANDING OFFICIALS IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. 05:32:37 MS OF MANDELA SHAKING HANDS W/ SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT FW DE KLERK NEAR OTHERS. REPORTER AUDIO. 05:32:41 WS OF CHAMBER AS OFFICIALS EXIT AREA FOLLOWING NEGOTIATIONS LEADING TO A NEW CONSTITUTION FOR SOUTH AFRICA. 05:32:47 TIGHT SHOT OF DE KLERK AT PODIUM AS HE DELIVERS SPEECH AND COMMENTS THAT THIS NEW ERA WILL INVOLVE MAKING ALL SOUTH AFRICANS 1 PEOPLE UNITED INTO 1 NATION. VS OF OFFICIALS. 05:33:02 WS OF OFFICIALS AT CIRCULAR TABLE AT NEGOTIATIONS. 05:33:09 MS OF MANDELA AT PODIUM AS HE DELIVERS SPEECH AND COMMENTS THAT MILLIONS WHO AREN'T ALLOWED TO VOTE WILL NOW DO SO INCLUDING HIMSELF. 05:33:22 HAS OF CHAMBER. 05:33:37 WS OF WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN EXTREMISTS IN UNIFORM AS THEY MARCH IN FORMATION IN STREET. 05:33:42 OUTDOOR IMPROMPTU PRESS CONFERENCE W/ UNIFORMED EXTREMIST LEADER WHO SAYS TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF CONFRONTATION AND IN THE END A WAR. 05:33:54 VS OF BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS WAVING CLUBS AND SABERS AS THEY DANCE OUTDOORS. 05:33:59 VS OF BLACK DEMONSTRATORS DANCING IN STREET AND HOLDING INKATHA PARTY BANNER. 05:34:04 WS OF BLACK DEMONSTRATORS AS THEY WAVE CLUBS AND SHIELDS. 05:34:09 RON ALLEN SU. REFEED. REPEAT FTG.

NOW THAT THE VIDEOTAPES AND THE TRANSCRIPTS HAVE BEEN RELEASED WHAT'S NEXT? MOST SPECIFICALLY.. IS THE PRESIDENT BROKERING A DEAL WITH CONGRESS? AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WITH ALL THE INFO? LEE ANN NECESSARY LOOKS FOR ANSWERS.

SOUTH AFRICA: Constitutional talks; S AFRICA Johannesburg TCMS Pres F W De Klerk along and greeted PAN R-L TCMS ANC Pres Nelson Mandela out of car TCMS Members of delegations towards MS Right wing demo against talks CMS Woman holding placards protesting at talks TCMS Banner held by demonstrator outside `De Klerk has no mandate' PULL OUT demo

<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Wednesday</p>\n<p>Johannesburg</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>May 29, 2024</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>- People line up to vote and cast their ballots in the general election.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--CNN INFORMATION</b>--</p>\n<p><b>South Africans go to the polls in election seen as biggest test yet to ANC’s 30 years in power</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Millions of South Africans are voting in what is expected to be the most pivotal general election since the end of apartheid.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>For months, polls have shown the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party could lose its majority for the first time since Nelson Mandela led it to power in 1994.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>While polling can be challenging in South Africa, most analysts believe that the ANC faces its stiffest challenge yet with a population deeply frustrated by the country’s direction. If support for the ANC drops below 50% for the first time, the party will be forced to enter into a coalition government.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>ANC leader and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called Wednesday’s vote “one of the most important elections in our nation’s history,” while addressing a crowd of thousands at Soweto’s FNB soccer stadium on Saturday.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“Our people will decide whether our country continues moving forward with the ANC towards a better, brighter future or backwards to a terrible past,” Ramaphosa said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, according to the World Bank. Citizens are also contending with the highest sustained rate of unemployment in the world, rampant corruption, feeble economic growth, crippling power cuts and rising violent crime.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Black South Africans, who make up 81% of the population, are at the sharp end of this dire situation. Unemployment and poverty remain concentrated in the Black majority, in large part due to the failure of public schooling, while most White South Africans have jobs and command considerably higher wages.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>There are 52 parties on this election’s national ballot, including new parties formed by previous ANC members such as former President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK).</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Zuma was forced to resign as president in 2018 and served a brief stint in jail in 2021 for contempt of court. The 82-year-old was barred from running for parliament last week after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that five years must have elapsed since the completion of his sentence. However, his party will still contest the election and his face will remain on the ballot.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Capping off a heated few months of election campaigning, many of the largest parties held their final rallies this weekend, including the Democratic Alliance (DA), the official opposition party.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“On Wednesday, the ANC will lose the outright majority it has abused for decades to subject the people of this country to unemployment, corruption and misrule… we close the ANC chapter of our history,” DA leader John Steenhuisen told supporters in the town of Benoni, east of Johannesburg. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The DA has formed a coalition bloc with smaller opposition parties called the Multi-Party Charter.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>This is the seventh general election South Africa has held since the end of white minority rule 30 years ago. A record 27.79 million people are registered to vote – the highest number to date, according to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC.)</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>SOUTH AFRICA GENERAL ELECTION VOTING </p>\n<p></p>

DAILY STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING TOPICS INCLUDE:SOVIETS MOVING CLOSER TO DEMOCRATIZATION-MOSCOW AND BALTIC STATES-MANDELA AND ANC IN SOUTH AFRICA