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South Africans have to understand the “political necessity” to accept refugees in the country, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said on Tuesday.
Asked at a media briefing at parliament about the apparent increase in xenophobic attacks on...
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There is a new man in South Africa,” proclaims a new ad splashed across South African media, aiming to transform ideas about sexuality and to enlist the...
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The viability of an effort endorsed by the United Nations to halt the trading of the so-called blood diamonds that have fueled conflicts across Africa is on the line...
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Female police officers are to pose as prostitutes in South Africa in a bid to snare kerb crawlers ahead of next year’s World Cup, security chiefs said.
A squad of...
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Two weeks ago, the new vice chancellor of the University of Free State called for the school to reinstate four white students who were kicked out after making a racist...
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Jackie Selebi, the former South African ambassador to the U.N. and head of Interpol, finally went on trial in Johannesburg on Oct. 5 after nearly two years of court...
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GLENN Agliotti, a convicted drug dealer who is also accused of murdering mining magnate Brett Kebble, yesterday supported claims that former police commissioner Jackie...
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The laughing young man has a perfect set of teeth, his golden incisors glinting in the sunlight.
Suddenly he pops out a pair of dentures, revealing a gap-toothed...
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I’ve just been back to London for a long weekend and caught the film Creation, which claims to tell the story of how Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of...
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South Africa’s winning bid to host the 2010 World Cup wasn’t much of a contest. The bid was confined to Africans nations since the continent is the only one...
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he rough 507 carat white stone was unearthed at the historic Cullinan mine – where the famous Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1905.
A spokesman for the mining...
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The gold miners gather in front of the old Crown Gold Mines and begin a peculiarly South African form of protest. They dance, hoot horns, wave knob-kerry sticks, and...
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A controversial plan to make HIV testing compulsory in South Africa has been criticised by campaigners who argue it would breach patients’ human...
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A South African newspaper has published what it says are e-mails showing local track officials authorized gender tests done in the country on runner Caster Semenya.
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The South African Sports Minister threatened a “third world war” if Caster Semenya, the athlete whose gender has been called into question, were banned from...
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Carrier pigeons are being used to transfer data between offices because bosses believe it is quicker than broadband.
Computer experts at a South African firm said it...
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Champion Caster Semenya, ‘is hermaphrodite’was factully stated in these pages by M. Kerjman:
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South Africa — Brandon Huntley was exultant when he first won a ruling that granted him refugee status in Canada.
“Look for me in tomorrow’s Ottawa Sun people,...
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This country’s rituals of protest most often call for the burning of tires, the barricading of streets and the throwing of rocks. So when the municipal mayor here...
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A white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada after an immigration board ruled he faces persecution if he is returned to his native...
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