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Is South Africa Safe Enough for the World Cup?
Oct 4 2009, Marco Villa

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 never to host the games. Few Africans are even serious contenders, and even less bothered to...

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South African boys die to become men in traditional circumcision
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Young South African Girls Sold Into Marriage For 3 Cows
Incognito, Boca Raton
It’s tragic what poverty will force people to do, but what’s happening in South Africa is more than tragic it’s criminal. In eastern Cape province,...
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made popular Dec 12 2009
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Spilling the Blood of Bulls to Preserve Zulu Tradition in South Africa
Craig, Pretoria
The bull was badly outnumbered, and while its muscular body, thick black hide and rock-hard horns offered significant advantages, this was not a brawl the animal was...
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made popular Dec 10 2009
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Copenhagen Air Business-2009: Vanity Masquerade
Michael Kerjman, The Earth
What might be more vital for a human being than a breath of air? In the third millennium said to be a paramount of achievements humankind having climbed to a date,...
climate change, pollution, global warming, carbon tax
made popular Dec 9 2009
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Morgan Freeman as Mandela is the deep voice of freedom
Desh, Shimla
In Clint Eastwood’s new movie Invictus, opening Friday, Morgan Freeman is South African icon Nelson Mandela, the closest thing to a saint a politician is allowed...
Morgan Freeman, Nelson Mandela, Invictus
made popular Dec 8 2009
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Homeless, Celebrities Collide Heading Into South Africa World Cup
Natasha, Pretoria
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Homeless South Africans complained they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous...
world cup, south africa, homeless
made popular Dec 5 2009
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Jacob Zuma's £5.3m home expansion prompts outcry
Chandre, Pretoria
Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, has prompted anger with a reported R65m (£5.3m) expansion of his personal residence in one of the country’s poorest...
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made popular Dec 5 2009
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For the glittering Soccer World Cup, Homeless are bearing the burnt
Riedewaan, Pretoria
Homeless South Africans complained on Thursday they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous events surrounding...
South Africa, Soccer world cup, Soccer world cup 2010
made popular Dec 4 2009
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South Africa plans sacrificing a cow in every stadium for 2010 World Cup as a mark of blessing
Hemant, Varanasi
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is expected to be blessed by the slaughter of one cow in each of its stadiums, the Makhonya Royal Trust proposed last week The move...
South Africa, Soccer world cup, Soccer world cup 2010
made popular Dec 2 2009
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Monumental Blunder--Toddler's Legs Amputated By Mistake
veena, delhi
What a horrible, horrible mistake,the one which cannot be reversed in anyway.There cannot be any condoning of such blunders. Thembisa Koimetsi a 2 year old perfectly...
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made popular Dec 1 2009
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No safe haven for Zimbabweans, refugees face crime, harassment in South Africa
Charles, London
Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...
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made popular Nov 28 2009
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Quiet Diplomacy Is An Attack On South Africa's Poor
Robb, Derby
Last year we all had to go through the mediation by Thabo Mbeki of the Zimbabwean governmental crisis, and although the former South African President was able to have...
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made popular Nov 25 2009
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Mossad Tired to Infiltrate Johannesburg Airport
Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Israeli Mossad has cleverly crafted a reputation of being uber-skilled and the Alpha of intelligences agencies. But this is all hype and as a former director of the...
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made popular Nov 24 2009
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Semenya will keep gold amid gender dispute
Daniel, Pretoria
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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made popular Nov 20 2009
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SA police sued for discrimination
Derick, Pretoria
Predominately white trade union Solidarity is taking South Africa’s government to court, alleging racial discrimination in the police force.
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made popular Nov 14 2009
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SA Minister Tells Police To "Shoot The Bastards" Days After 3-Year-Old Shot
Daniel, Pretoria
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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Race Row Threatens Power For South African World Cup
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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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South Africa's 'Brothers for Life campaign' tries to enlist men in AIDS battle
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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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Africa’s Scrutiny of Blood Diamond Trade
Dale, Pretoria
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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As Donors Focus on AIDS, Child Illnesses Languish
Stephan, Pretoria
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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Italy and France failing Africa
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Italy and France have been accused of reneging on promises to increase aid to African nations. Anti-poverty group One, set up by rock star Bono, said Italy had...
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