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(Photo: UN / /Isaac Billy)Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012....Full Story

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(Photo: AP)Zille speech interrupted
Helen Zille, Cape Town city mayor and leader of the main opposition party, center, outside the court in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. Zille appeared briefly in court in connection with a demonstration outside the houses of alleged drug dealers. Police say that Zille is encouraging self-style vigilantes to take the law into their own hands, whilst her supporters say the demonstrations reflect growing fury that drug lords are targeting children and ravaging entire communities with impunity....Full Story

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China Daily, now out of Africa
China's biggest English-language newspaper is to publish a weekly African edition with bureau in at least two countries on the continent. | The African operation of the state-run China Daily will generate a range of Africa-specific content. It is to be based in Johannes...Full Story
Rugby: Steyn to bring up Bulls century in Dunedin
| Morne Steyn will play his 100th game for the Bulls when the side takes on the Highlanders at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday night. | Steyn (27), first made his debut for the Bulls in 2005 against the Crusaders and has scored more than 1000 points at this level. | Fi...Full Story
Warlord says witnesses were bribed
| CONVICTED Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has accused UN prosecutors of paying witnesses to testify against him. | Taylor made the claims yesterday as he addressed a war crimes court in The Hague. | Taylor, 64, was found guilty by the UN-backed court last month of aid...Full Story
England gets first look at new-model Hughes
| TOWARDS the end of the New Zealand series last summer, Australia opener Phil Hughes wore the dead-eyed look of a man on his way to the guillotine. Now, as he heads off for a stint in the English county game, the spark is back. | At the heart of his new mindset is a fu...Full Story
Eddie Izzard To Run 27 Marathons For Mandela
| Eddie Izzard will run 27 marathons in 27 days Eddie Izzard has begun what could be his toughest challenge yet - to run 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa. | The comedian will be running the marathons in honour of Nelson Mandela. | Sky 1 will be showing the three-...Full Story
Paul G. Marshall, entertainment lawyer, dies
| Paul G. Marshall, an entertainment lawyer who engineered deals that changed pop-music history, including the Beatles’ initial U.S. recording contract and decades later, sale of the supergroup’s catalog to Michael Jackson, died at Aventura Hospital on May...Full Story
South Africa Headed for AU Stalemate With Noting Up Its Sleeve
[iMaverick] Johannesburg - Unless the South African government gets its head out of the sand over the next chairperson of the AU, there'll be another stalemate in Lilongwe - and our already battered reputation will take another hammering. | ...Full Story
Nelson Mandela’s personal chef, 
authors bring tastes of South Africa 
to summit at Breakers
| The flavors of South Africa were on the menu last week at a kick-off luncheon for the American Express Publishing Luxury Summit at The Breakers. | A crowd of more than 200 tasted a meal designed by Xoliswa Ndoyiya and Anna Trapido, authors of Ukutya Kwasekhaya: Tastes...Full Story
Stana Katic interview in South Africa's Independent Online: 'I am blessed'
| "Castle" is currently on summer hiatus in the United States, but other seasons are still being broadcast in countries such as in South Africa, where Season 4 has yet to finish airing. South African news website Independent Online (IOL) released an interview with Stana...Full Story
NOM's Racial Wedge Strategy in Action
| Just two months ago, internal documents released as part of a lawsuit against the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) revealed in explicit terms how the organization views racial wedge strategies as key to its political goals. If you need reminding just how crass...Full Story
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Moody's Cites Concerns on South African Policy
Wall Street Journal By PATRICK MCGROARTY | JOHANNESBURG—South Africa's struggles to tackle growing unemployment and income gaps are weighing on public finances and creating uncertainty about government policy in the continent's largest economy, Moody's Investors S...
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Amnesty International report says Mali facing its worst crisis in 50 years
Sacramento Bee | JOHANNESBURG -- Mali is confronting its worst challenges since independence in 1960, including a severe humanitarian emergency, human rights abuses committed by government troops and rebel militias, and international isolation after a military coup...
Ghumman attack ‘not in character’
Independent online British chartered accountant Shumsheer Singh Ghumman's petrol bombing of the home of a Clifton businessman was out of character, his mother said on Wednesday. | Irmal Ghumman, an Australian medical doctor, told the Cape Town Regional Court she hoped ...
Should you be worried about lightning striking your plane?
The Guardian | French president François Hollande's flight was forced to land after being hit this week. But is there any real danger? Lightning prevents planes from taking off in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph: Dan Kitwood | Those of a nervous dispositi...
Mother and son held for murder conspiracy
Independent online A woman and her adult son were arrested in Kinross, Mpumalanga, on Wednesday for conspiring to kill her husband, police said. | He was found dead at his home with multiple stab wounds, said Colonel Leonard Hlathi. | “The woman confessed that sh...
Rhino bust cops commended
Independent online The officials who recovered 10 rhino horns and R3.5 million in cash in a Bedfordview raid needed a “big pat on the back”, Ekurhuleni community safety MMC Mthuthuzeli Siboza said on Wednesday. | “Only (through) true dedication to the...
Van stoned in post office protest
Independent online Johannesburg metro police officers intervened in a protest by post office contract workers on Wednesday after a vehicle was pelted with stones. | Communication Workers' Union (CWU) members were demanding that their contract positions become permanent...
Under fire, South Africa's former president repudiates apartheid
CNN May 16, 2012 -- Updated 1728 GMT (0128 HKT) Former South African president FW de Klerk pictured in Chicago in April 2012. | (CNN) -- Under fire for his comments on apartheid, former South African President F.W. de Klerk clarified his position again W...
Roadlink protocols to be examined
Independent online A special investigation has been launched into the SA Roadlink bus accident in the Free State in which five people were killed, the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) said on Wednesday. | It wanted to find out when last the bus was inspected ...
Acid mine water treatment stepped up
Independent online Water engineers are poised to up the treatment rate of overflowing acid mine drainage (AMD) in the Witwatersrand's western basin, an official said on Wednesday. | “The first train is operational at the western basin, treating 10 megalitres a da...
Expert wants structures in place before Ghana’s GMO law takes off
Ghana Business News | Mr Kwame Dei Asamoah-Okyere, Head of the Biosafety Unit of the Food and Drugs Board, on Wednesday called for a speedy implementation of administrative structures for the smooth implementation of Ghana’s biosafety law. | He said though it took abo...
Clifton trawler salvage to continue
Independent online Attempts to salvage a 50 metre-long fishing trawler off First Beach, Clifton, would continue beyond Wednesday, the City of Cape Town said. | “The attempt to salvage the stranded Japanese longliner, the Eihatsu Maru, will continue into Friday,&#...
Africa boom may be hurt by a shortage of managers
Sacramento Bee | JOHANNESBURG -- Africa's rapid economic growth has helped change the stereotype of a hopeless continent of starving people waiting to be rescued, but it has also created an intense need for strong managers, according to a report released this week....
E-tolling threatens South Africa's credit rating
Mail Guardian South Africa | “The impasse over the implementation of electronic tolling on newly built roads, demonstrates continued tension between South Africa’s economic and social priorities versus its aspirations to contain the rise in public debt,” inve...
Research and Markets: Analyzing the Tobacco Industry in South Africa
Business Wire | DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/gzpwh8/analyzing_the_toba) has announced the addition of the "Analyzing the Tobacco Industry in South Africa" report to their offering. | “Analyzing the...
Joburg gang poses as cops
Independent online A gang posing as police officers has been targeting the East Rand and Johannesburg's northern suburbs, Gauteng police said on Wednesday. | “This gang is carrying high calibre weapons,” said acting provincial police commissioner, Major-Gen...
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