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Robert Mugabe, the runaway winner in a one-horse race, was quickly inaugurated Sunday as president of Zimbabwe after a runoff election on Friday. His opponent had already dropped out because state-sponsored enforcers were beating and killing his...
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Gold production in the world leading supplier South Africa fell more than 10 percent in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, the industry said...
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AP, Brussels
The world’s largest steel maker ArcelorMittal SA said Wednesday it would jointly develop a manganese mine in South Africa in a deal worth $432.5 million.
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We move on now to the other big trauma of South Africa – Psycho. All my traumas can be aligned with people, and not events. How curious!
For the first month I had...
made popular Sep 3 2008
by Trevor Chesterfield
What is all this hullaballoo about the application of some sticky substance on a ball to make it swing?
For those who think it hasn’t...
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Married South African Hindu nurses have won the right to continue wearing the traditional red dot, or the bindi, on their foreheads after intervention by the provincial...
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The two tribes lived there in a plum lakeside community when the Sahara Desert, as we know it, was a lush, green country, but were separated by effects of climate...
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AP, Johannesburg
A South African who was a U.S. track star faces prison on fraud charges here.
made popular Aug 30 2008
Bulletproof attire had for so long been exclusively for the VVIPs and the security personnel. But Columbian designer Miguel Caballero has brought the bulletproof...
made popular Aug 29 2008
Cricket, a sport that is a religion for some and entertainment for others has been entertaining its followers over the years. Test matches, ODI’s, they all seem to...
made popular Aug 24 2008
The picture above involving Graeme Smith and Justin Kemp is dated back to two years ago on the eve of the one day international between South Africa and Pakistan in...
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The South African man convicted of feeding one of his ex-workers to the lions has been freed on parole, after three years in jail.
made popular Aug 22 2008
AP, Johannesburg
A white farmer who threw the body of his fired black worker into a lions’ pen has been freed on parole after less than three years in prison.
made popular Aug 21 2008
A very dangerous idea virus seems to be spreading in today’s new age of widespread media and information dissemination. From the Columbine killings to Virginia...
made popular Aug 21 2008
The belief that having sex with infants will cure AIDS, has led to a marked increase in the rape of infants and children in South Africa
made popular Aug 21 2008
England and South Africa will face each other in a Twenty20 match on 20 August 2008 at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street in England. The twenty20 match will take...
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AP, Johannesburg
Officials on both sides of Zimbabwe’s political divide are vowing to keep talking after regional leaders urged them toward a power-sharing deal.
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AP, Johannesburg
Zimbabwean negotiators have the basis for a power-sharing agreement and should quickly resolve their political differences and turn their attention to their...
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The ICC Champions trophy, next only to the ICC World Cup and which is to be held in Pakistan from September 12 to 28, might recieve a jolt if major teams decides not to...
made popular Aug 17 2008
What this space: Africa is fast becoming an important player in cleaner energy sources. If only 0.3% of sunlight falling on the Sahara and Middle Eastern deserts can...
made popular Aug 16 2008
AP, Johannesburg
Zimbabwe’s opposition chief would accept the prime minister’s post and concede the presidency _ and command of the military _ to Robert Mugabe to settle a...
made popular Aug 16 2008
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Yesterday marked the celebration of Youth Day in South Africa. In 1976 an estimated 20,000 young people from Soweto led a demonstration against the segregated Bantu...
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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...
made popular May 21 2008
- South African President Thabo Mbeki, the chief regional mediator on the crisis in Zimbabawe, was due on Friday to make his first visit to Harare since the release of...
made popular May 14 2008
The tendency to compare contemporary political events to the Third Reich is called reducto ad Hitlerum, so facile are the alleged similarities and so often is this...
made popular May 12 2008
South African President Thabo Mbeki decided to disband an elite crime-fighting unit against an official recommendation to keep it operating, documents released Monday...
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The BBC’s Mohammed Allie in Cape Town looks at whether racism is still thriving in South Africa, 14 years after the end of apartheid, as President Thabo Mbeki...
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Thabo Mbeki, the South African President, has yet again been tasked with mediation between Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic...
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A Chinese ship loaded with armaments for Zimbabwe steamed into the port of Durban this week and set off a political firefight, putting newfound pressure on South Africa...
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DICTIONARIES are flying off bookshop shelves like hot vetkoek from a township spaza shop. The reason the country is seized by this frenzy is because there are some...
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It is difficult to ignore the dramatic events in Zimbabwe. I am frequently asked by overseas colleagues and visitors: Why would South Africa escape the fate or even...
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South Africa’s most prominent and popular political party the African National Congress(ANC)is bitterly divided over its leadership with the country’s...
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Zimbabwe appears to be a perennial vortex of dispute and unrest. An estimated 3 million people have already escaped from the nation as a result of acute food shortage...
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Southern hemisphere’s largest optical telescope, named Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is to be inaugurated at the South African Astronomical Observatory...
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