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By Stanley Karombo


JOHANNESBURG Air Max TN Sale , Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The film of 35 million U. S. dollars featuring the life of former South African president Nelson Mandela was premiered in Johannesburg on Sunday evening, stirring emotional memories of the anti-apartheid icon.


The film -- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom -- is based on his autobiography.


According to the British director of the film, Justin Chadwick, Mandela saw excerpts and stills from the film at his home in Qunu last year.


Mandela, 95, was admitted to hospital several times since December and remains critically ill at his Johannesburg home.


Mandela became the first black president in 1994 after the democratic elections. His daughter Mandela Zindzi said she became emotional when she saw the film.


In honor of the South African struggle icon, many of the Mandela family who attended the film's launch were on a red carpet.


Commenting after the debut of the movie, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said it was an emotional movie.


Radebe said, ""It (the film) depicts not only the struggle by Nelson Mandela but also by the people of South Africa."" ""I cried many times during the movie because it was so emotional.""


African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said the movie portrayed the former South Africa president well. ""The movie is a clear testimony of the great works done by Mr Mandlela,"" said Ramaphosa.


The two and half hours long film will be released in South Africa and the United States on Nov. 28.


Many of South Africa's well-known politicians, business people, men and women showed up at the film's premiere.


After the movie, people waited anxiously outside to meet with the cast. Winnie Madikizela Mandela, former wife of Mandela, met with Naomie Harries, who plays the former wife in the film. Harris also starred in the James Bond movie ""Skyfall.""


The film has two British actors in the leading roles, but the film-makers insist it is a South African story told largely by South Africans.


It also features actor Tony Kgoroge, who played the role of a presidential security chief in ""Invictus,"" the 2009 movie directed by Clint Eastwood that starred Morgan Freeman as Mandela in the period leading up to South Africa's World Cup rugby title in 1995.


This time Kgoroge plays Walter Sisulu, a longtime associate of Mandela.


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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A movie about South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela will be released in France next month, its producer announced on Monday.


The announcement came just as French President Francois Hollande started his two-day state visit to South Africa.

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BRUSSELS, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) granted Albania candidate status Tuesday, setting the Balkan country on the path to membership of the regional bloc.


"Congratulations on candidate status just agreed ... (It is an) acknowledgement of reform efforts, encouragement for more," EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule wrote on Twitter.


Albania first applied to join the EU in 2009, but has been rejected three times due to the slow pace of its economic and political reforms.


Last December, the EU postponed its decision on Albania's candidacy, seeking a longer track record in Albania's fight against organized crime and corruption.


Early this month, the European Commission recommended granting the status in a progress report.


According to the report, Albania has acted decisively in the fight against corruption and in structural reforms, important legislative reforms have been seen in the fight against organized crime, and investigations have yielded positive results in the fight against drug trafficking and other areas of serious and organized crime.


HANOI, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has restarted a 531 million U.S. dollars project on building a 63.8 km expressway linking the two northern provinces of Bac Giang and Lang Son which borders China, a local bank said here on Thursday.


The Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade has just provided its investor with a credit of more than 10 trillion Vietnamese dong (442 million U.S. dollars) to meet the capital shortage which resulted in the work halt.


Under the mode of build-operate-transfer, the 25 meter-wide expressway is scheduled to become operational by late 2019, allowing vehicles to run at a maximum speed of 100 km per hour.


Construction of the Bac Giang-Lang Son section, part of the 152-km Hanoi-Lang Son expressway, from the capital city to Lang Son's Huu Nghi border gate, started in 2015.


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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Federal Police (PF) on Monday disbanded a criminal ring that was disguised as a religious sect to swindle members millions in donations and force them into slavery.


Dubbed "Return to Canaan", the early morning operation "dismantled a criminal organization that used a religious sect to take control of the assets of the faithfuls, submitting them into forced labor, under slavery-like conditions," the PF said in a press release posted on its website.


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