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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 went to address the crowd after three days of such agitation, the police thought it best..
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South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the...
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Predominately white trade union Solidarity is taking South Africa’s government to court, alleging racial discrimination in the police force.
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South Africa’s deputy police minister has stood by his force’s tough, shoot-to-kill policy, days after a three-year-old boy was shot dead by...
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An ugly race row has left South Africa’s national power company leaderless and is threatening to turn the lights out in the country only nine months before it is...
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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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Diarrhea kills 1.5 million young children a year in developing countries — more than AIDS, malaria and measles combined — but only 4 in 10 of those who need the...
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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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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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South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has urged Zimbabwe’s political rivals to work together if they are to see foreign aid restored.
He said the...
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The storm surrounding ANC Youth League President Julius Malema’s criticism of President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of “minorities” to strategic...
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South African President Jacob Zuma has a problem: the very underclass that swept him into office last April on his promise to deliver them a better life have run out of...
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South African construction workers began an indefinite strike yesterday, halting work at stadiums for the 2010 World Cup in the biggest industrial action since...
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South Africa must ease economic inequalities or face serious consequences, President Jacob Zuma said, a policy that could unnerve foreign investors worried he may steer...
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: Plato.
Wise men’s old sayings are often just as applicable today. Plato’s...
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This route, the myth goes, is the descent into dictatorship, the free-fall into hunger and poverty and the collapse of institutions such as an independent and vigorous...
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There are those who do not believe the activities in Zimbabwe and prefer to detract instead on the written word.. That is their right. I am not going to write...
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The political events in South Africa over the last week have been historical –- a relatively ’smooth’ change of presidency without bloodshed in Africa! No doubt...
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Good guerrillas often make indifferent democrats. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe may be the clearest proof that the very qualities that make an effective insurgent...
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Jacob Zuma, ANC President, has been getting most of the media attention in South Africa as the entire country awaits, with baited breath, the outcome of his trial. Zuma...
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Jacob Zuma, has had a very polarising effect amongst the South African population. You either love him or hate him, there is no in-between. ...
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Can you believe it? For the second time now I’ve been interrogated by executives at work! Why? Because my wife is on a business trip to Norway! I’ve got no reasons...
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Part of my fascination with South Africa is the wild and the open plains and untouched nature like in the Wild West. It’s not harnessed by civilization, and you can...
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I never cared much for politics in my own country with bland characters where nobody really stood out from the crowd. In South Africa however, this is my favorite...
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I have read in the press and seen in motion and still images, the horrific xenophobic situation in South Africa. I saw someone set ablaze and another man being hacked...
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It’s 19:00 and it’s time for the e-tv news, well there is nothing too shocking looks like the world will still be rotating tomorrow. Except maybe for some...
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South Africa’s ruling party leader has urged people to work together to fight xenophobia and any ill-treatment of Zimbabweans and other foreigners.
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