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The Holy Grail (more so for India than Australia, the Aussies have already lost theirs) is now just a month away and the attention turns from the white to the colored...
made popular Jan 21 2011
Given that this assault happened in South Africa, it will be very interesting to see what sympathy is given to the ZANU PF assailant by the pro-Mugabe Zuma...
made popular Jan 11 2011
I read on the internet this morning that Mugabe’s destructive, unruly and all-encompassing political party - ZANU PF - is intent upon resurrecting their party...
made popular Jan 7 2011
Here it is folks, Part Two and conclusion of the Johnny John / Joburg Metro cop saga. How does he get out of the mess he is in after bribing the trafficcop and then a...
made popular Dec 21 2010
For many reasons, there’s no need to read me saying any of this, but Sachin Tendulkar is a universe-witheringly, life-enhancingly, lip-wobblingly beautiful deity...
made popular Dec 21 2010
When something is enough, there is no need of asking ‘What’s next?’ Anything better may happen at any time. Supernatural power knows no bounds. One’s success in...
made popular Dec 20 2010
Part one of a two-part must read story for all those who want to know how to handle traffic cops asking for bribes. Learn from the best, learn from Johnny John!
made popular Dec 20 2010
The 3rd Africa/European Union (EU) Summit opened in Tripoli on monday with President Paul Biya and wife, Chantal Biya in attendance. Some 30 African Heads of State and...
made popular Nov 30 2010
More than 12 million people in Burkino Faso will be the first to receive a new meningitis vaccine as part of an Africa-wide immunization plan, the World Health...
made popular Nov 29 2010
As World AIDS Day approaches, activists and service providers in the non-governmental health sector have warned government that it will never turn the tide of AIDS if...
made popular Nov 29 2010
A new study warns of the potential problems Africa faces from rising temperatures. The Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) says the...
made popular Nov 29 2010
Shrien Dewani, 30, from Bristol, and his Swedish-born wife Anni, 28, were in a taxi driving through a township in Cape Town on Nov 13 when they were ambushed by two...
made popular Nov 23 2010
The husband of murdered honeymoon bride Anni Dewani will return to South Africa in days for an identity parade.
Shrien, 30, escorted by British police, will also point...
made popular Nov 22 2010
South Africa, the biggest corn producer on the continent, will probably cut its forecast for this season’s harvest of the grain, a Bloomberg survey showed.
The...
made popular Nov 22 2010
There are a lot of similarities between the Somali pirates and South African society.
made popular Nov 22 2010
France’s new foreign minister has rejected a reported message from al Qaida’s North Africa branch saying Paris should negotiate with Osama bin Laden over...
made popular Nov 19 2010
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa could cut the number of new HIV infections to below 200,000 a year by 2020, more than half the current level, with the right...
made popular Nov 19 2010
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BEIJING, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — The decade-old Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) has made abundant achievements including greatly boosting bilateral trade,...
made popular Nov 18 2010
A man has been charged with the murder of honeymoon bride Anni Dewani in South Africa, police said last night.
Anni, 28, and millionaire husband Shrien, 30, were...
made popular Nov 18 2010
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — A Qantas Airways Ltd. plane bound for Sydney returned to Johannesburg after striking birds, the Australian carrier’s fifth report of a...
made popular Nov 17 2010
Anni Dewani, 28, and her husband of two weeks Shrien Dewani, 30, had been to a popular nightspot in one of the city’s townships and were thought to be returning home...
made popular Nov 15 2010
Few nations have as abysmal and grotesque sexual culture norms as South Africa.
Rape against woman in the nation is not some aberration committed only by deranged,...
made popular Oct 13 2010
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is just one of several global companies targeting South Africa for expansion opportunities this year. But the retailer’s purchase of Massmart...
made popular Sep 28 2010
Police say 13 officers have been arrested on charges of aiding the escape of eight prisoners from a court in South Africa’s commercial capital.
made popular Sep 27 2010
President Jacob Zuma took a hard line on the ANC’s recent woes on Monday, setting the tone for the rest of the party’s five-day national general...
made popular Sep 21 2010
The decomposed body of a baby girl was found in a packet on a river bank in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday morning, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
She was believed to be...
made popular Sep 17 2010
A major South African hospital chain and its chief executive have been charged after years of investigation into a human organ trafficking case that stretched from...
made popular Sep 17 2010
The Eastern Cape health department is taking action regarding a rape complaint lodged against an ambulance driver in February this year.
Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said...
made popular Sep 16 2010
The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt.
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made popular Sep 14 2010
Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Charges dropped, but it aint over. The media tribunal and press laws are coming. The battle has been won but not the war!
made popular Sep 10 2010
The farewell supper at a church in this city’s northern suburbs had just begun when two men burst upon the small gathering of parishioners. They demanded jewelry,...
made popular Sep 9 2010
African universities were key to remaking the continent, former president Thabo Mbeki said on Monday.
“... Africa will overcome the challenges of poverty,...
made popular Sep 7 2010
In the windblown hills of the Eastern Cape, boys from the Xhosa tribe are in a hurry to be men.
At 20, Siphelele Zweni was ridiculed in his village. They called him...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Low-paid South Africans who last year campaigned for Jacob Zuma as the “people’s president” now say he has betrayed them.
After falling out with the...
made popular Sep 2 2010
South Africa’s public sector unions rejected a new pay offer from the government on Wednesday to end a three-week strike but asked for more time to consult their...
made popular Sep 2 2010
People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.
made popular Aug 28 2010
A South African girl who survived a criminal attack that shocked the nation was among those killed when a train hit a school van this week, a family spokesman said...
made popular Aug 28 2010
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Mumbai Indians cricketer Lasith Malinga, center, celebrates the dismissal of Deccan Chargers’ Ravi Teja, during the Indian Premier League cricket match between the two teams in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, April 25, 2009.
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