South Africa

                   
guardian.co.uk: Thabo Mbeki next to Robert Mugabe guardian.co.uk

Senior aides hold secret talks on ditching Mugabe

guardian.co.uk     4 hrs ago   3 related          

The South African President, Thabo Mbeki, greets government officials next to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe at Harare International airport in August. Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters Some of President Robert...                    

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Album: Rodriguez, Cold Fact (Light In The Attic)

independent.co.uk     4 hrs ago          

While closer to Donovan than 'Astral Weeks', this 1970 cult recording (and what a cult, it's still going in South Africa and Australia) by Detroit street-dude Sixto Rodriguez is hard to resist. There are only two truly...                    

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apn.co.nz: Springbok coach Peter de Villiers. Photo / Getty Images apn.co.nz

Rugby: Springbok coach denies sex blackmail claim

apn.co.nz     3 hrs ago   2 related          

JOHANNESBURG - The South Africa Rugby Union (SARU) denied a report claiming national coach Peter de Villiers was the victim of sex blackmail today. A Johannesburg newspaper said an unnamed rugby official and a Bok squad...                    

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Alliance close to election pact

mg.co.za     5 hrs ago   6 related          

RAPULE TABANE AND MANDY ROSSOUW | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Leaders of Cosatu and the SACP believe they are about to reach agreements with the ANC which will maximise their influence in the upcoming elections and on...                    

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Woman dead in KZN veld fires

news24.com     10 hrs ago   3 related          

Johannesburg - A 68 year-old woman died in Eshowe during veld fires in KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Saturday. Inspector Mbongeni Mdlalose said the woman was in a hut in her homestead at Emabhudle Reserve in Kwa Khoza,...                    

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Refugee goes missing in CT

news24.com     8 hrs ago          

Johannesburg - A Somali resident of Cape Town's Blue Water shelter for refugees disappeared when he went swimming in False Bay near the shelter on Saturday, a City of Cape Town spokesperson said. The man, in his twenties,...                    

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Judges in the dock

mg.co.za     5 hrs ago          

SELLO S ALCOCK | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - The Judicial Service Commission will meet on September 17 to finalise a shortlist of candidates to interview for a solitary Constitutional Court seat, to be vacated later this...                    

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Famous Diamonds

wordpress.com     9 hrs ago   3 related          

Among the most well known diamonds is the Hope. This 45.52 carat steel blue diamond is currently on display at the Smithsonian. The legends of the ill-fortune and curse bestowed on the possessor of the Hope Diamond are...                    

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Don't let the bed bugs bite?

wordpress.com     10 hrs ago   1 related          

When I got bit by the travel bug I didn't know it would leave a welt. Almost a decade of showing up to my older sister's birthday parties with one eye swollen shut from a run in with a black fly or mosquito has left me...                    

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bbc.co.uk: Archie Mafeje courtesy of the University of Cape Town bbc.co.uk

Apartheid casualty's belated apology

bbc.co.uk     15 hrs ago          

In 1968 the BBC's Africa Editor Martin Plaut was one of 600 students at the University of Cape Town protesting because black lecturer Archie Mafeje had been denied a teaching post there. Returning to Cape Town 40 years...                    

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