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Island is no paradise

...South Africa --- The former prison on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years is an international tourist icon. But the site...visitors from Cape Town across to the island to tour the jail where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/08/17/liv_469536.shtml
Life & style
Beyonce, Bono perform at star-studded AIDS concert

...benefit concert hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela. More than 30,000 people, among them Oprah Winfrey...Stewart, was put into place in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, as well as May and Roger Taylor of Queen...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/11/30/mus_396799.shtml
Music
Hailed on the streets, Tyson ducks into a police station

...because of his rape conviction in 1992, Tyson followed Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali in walking the streets of the neighborhood...she said. "It's another part of the jigsaw. Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson -- they have all come...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/01/22/oth_280570.shtml
Other sports
Former Augusta State golfer Scott Jamieson is chasing his Masters dream

...Schwartzel.His climb began in December in Durban, South Africa, when he won a three-man playoff in the water-logged Nelson Mandela Championship to open the 2013 European Tour season. On a course reduced to par-65 because of flooding, Jamieson...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-03-07/former-augusta-state-golfer-
Former Augusta State golfer Scott Jamieson is chasing his Masters dream

...Schwartzel.His climb began in December in Durban, South Africa, when he won a three-man playoff in the water-logged Nelson Mandela Championship to open the 2013 European Tour season. On a course reduced to par-65 because of flooding, Jamieson...

http://augusta.com/masters/story/masters/former-augusta-state-golfer-scott-jamie
Ex-Jag gets first European Tour win

...Sunday, beating England's Steve Webster and Spain's Eduardo de la Riva in a playoff after the season-opening Nelson Mandela Championship was reduced to a 36-hole shootout because of rain.Jamieson, who played for Augusta State, won with...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2012-12-09/ex-jag-gets-first-european-t
Ex-Augusta State golfer Scott Jamieson leads in South Africa by five shots

...event for European Tour winners.A month ago, in the Nelson Mandela Championship, Jamieson won his first European Tour...earning the Durban Double.Jamieson said winning Nelson Mandela in a playoff under the extreme pressure "gave me...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-01-12/ex-augusta-state-golfer-scot
John Senden leads Australian Open by two shots

...runner-up to Greg Chalmers last year at The Lakes. "It was a day of trying to do the best I can and stay in position."NELSON MANDELA CHAMPIONSHIP: In Durban, South Africa, Morten Orum Madsen made a late charge to match Tim Clark's 5-under-par...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2012-12-08/john-senden-leads-australian
Oosthuizen nips ex-Jag for title in South Africa

...the season, and it's always good to start in your own country because it feels more relaxed."Jamieson won the Nelson Mandela Championship in December for his first tour victory and looked headed for a second title. But he followed two early...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-01-13/oosthuizen-nips-ex-jag-title
Overtime

...Championship was the 2012 U.S. Ryder Cup captain.? The European Tour's 2013 season begins today with the inaugural Nelson Mandela Championship in Durban, the first of six events in South Africa.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/2012-12-05/overtime