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3 hrs ago | Canada.com

Shebeens' remain a refuge for poverty-stricken South Africans

The power had been out for three days so there was no music and most of the apple cider and beer was warm, but the party was in full swing by early Saturday afternoon at Dodo's Tavern, an unlicensed shebeen that is the centre of community life in a wretchedly poor area of the biggest black township in South Africa.

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8 hrs ago | Anarkismo Newswire

Remembering and Learning from the Past: The 1976 Uprising and the African Working Class

This year [2006] marks the 30th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa, which marked the start of the fall of apartheid, and inspired activists worldwide.

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12 hrs ago | KTVN Reno

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America's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for a world of glamour in her new role - and she can't wait.

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16 hrs ago | Iol.co.za

Five killed in Umkomaas collision

Five people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision on the R102 in Mnini near Umkomaas, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday, paramedics said.

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20 hrs ago | New Pittsburgh Courier Online

A White South African's memories of Nelson Mandela

I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1964, the year Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Civil Rights Act was passed in the United States, and Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

Canada.com

South African students mark one of the key moments in the liberation struggle

Enjoy cycling? Thinking about training for the GranFondo? Take a look at The Vancouver Sun's new Cycling and GranFondo training page.

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Sky News

GCHQ 'Snooped' On Foreign Politicians At G20

As the G8 summit gets under way, potentially embarrassing leaked documents claim the UK spied on G20 politicians in 2009.

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Iol.co.za

Zille: We want victory in SA's richest province

The battle for the control of Gauteng kicked off in earnest this week, with DA leader Helen Zille vowing the party could, would and must win the province next year.

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Vancouver Sun

Nelson Mandela seeing sustained improvement in health, South Africa's president says

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is engaging with his family and seeing improvement from the recurring lung infection that forced him to spend a ninth day in the hospital Sunday, the president said.

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Iol.co.za

Family's lucky escape from horror pile-up

It started as a weekend outing for the King family, on their way from the Eastern Cape in a Toyota Tazz to watch the Top Gear Festival.

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Daily Monitor

He was accused by Idi Amin of planting bombs

Mzee Joseph Kimbowa was a big contractor who had made his name in the 1960s and '70s through his firm, Kimbowa Building and Constructors, founded in 1950.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

KTVN Reno

Grandson says Mandela's health improving

The revelation that a top former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who knew 94-year-old Michael Karkoc.

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The Straits Times

Italian named world's top pasta chef for recession-inspired dish

Giorgio Nava, an Italian chef based in South Africa, won the World Pasta Championship in the Italian city of Parma on Saturday with a low-cost recipe that he said suited Italy's deep economic crisis.

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BizPacReview.com

South African Muslim lawyers call for Obama's arrest

The Muslim Lawyers Association in Johannesburg has called for the arrest and prosecution of President Obama for war crimes and genocide when he arrives in South Africa later this month.

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Buenos Aires Herald

South Africa's Mandela 'recovering very well', grandson says

Nelson Mandela''s daughter Zenani Dlamini and other relatives arrive at the MediClinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, where Nelson Mandela has spent a week receiving treatment for a lung infection Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection which has kept him in a serious condition in ... (more)

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Seattle Times

Regional leaders start summit on Zimbabwe polls

Regional presidents have begun a special summit on Zimbabwe after President Robert Mugabe set crucial elections for the end of July.

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WHBF-TV Rock Island

Mandela remains in South African hospital

Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation orders for thousands of anxious residents in the most destructive blaze in state... Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation ... (more)

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Ghanamma.com

Patience Ozokwo wows fans in J'burg

Patience Mama G Ozokwo has been touring Johannesburg to sign the new iROKOtv DVDs which will be making their debut across market places and local shops throughout Johannesburg.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

Iol.co.za

4000 strike at Amplats mine

Up to 4,000 mineworkers staged a sit-in strike at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South Africa's restive platinum belt Friday over the suspension of four leaders, a union representative told AFP.

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Korea Herald

Wining and dining in style on the South African railway

The landscape transformed as we neared Cape Town. Mountainous scrubland that could have been plucked from a Hollywood Western gave way to the vineyards of Hex River Valley, the source of 20 percent of South Africa's wine production.

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