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20 min ago | National Geographic

Travel Writer Paul Theroux's Last Trip to Africa

For half a century, the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux has been traversing continents-often crammed into an overcrowded bus or wedged into a packed train car.

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4 hrs ago | BroadwayWorld.com

BWW Reviews: UCT Drama's UNONQAWUSE a Game of Two Halves

It seems apt, given that it is Africa Week, that the Drama Department at the University of Cape Town is closing their winter season with a production of H.I.E Dhlomo's THE GIRL WHO KILLED TO SAVE, also known as NONGQAUSE THE LIBERATOR and presented here as UNONGQAWUSE, THE GIRL WHO KILLED TO SAVE.

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8 hrs ago | Iol.co.za

Cape Town MD to face tender probe

The managing director of a local solar energy company that was awarded a R13 billion state contract has been found unfit to run a body corporate.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Department of Energy

Fri May 24, 2013

Iol.co.za

Encounters Festival toasts 15 years

Fifteen years in, the Encounters Documentary Film Festival is celebrating by opening with a feature film by Riaan Hendricks, The Devil's Lair.

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Bizcommunity

Wild Island receives a brand and packaging upgrade

South African beverage manufacturer, The Ceres Beverage Company, approached Cape Town-based strategic design agency, Red Crown, to evaluate and to upgrade their existing Wild Island range of concentrated fruit juice blends.

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Related Topix: South Africa, World News, Arts, Graphic Design

SanLuisObispo.com

Global travels remind resident of Cambria

Over the past six months, I fulfilled three long-term goals: to retire early, to move full-time to Cambria and to travel around the world.

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Related Topix: Cambria, CA, Travel, South Africa Travel, Africa Travel, World News, South Africa, Big Sur, CA

Real Clear Politics

The Promise of Africa

Is Africa rising? Judging by the buzz and optimism of the young business leaders and political trailblazers from across the continent who gathered for the World Economic Forum on Africa earlier this month, the answer is a qualified "yes." The African Leadership Network - co-founded by Stanford graduates Fred Swaniker, now the CEO of the African ... (more)

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News24

Khoi-San: Abolish the term 'coloured'

Khoisan men sing during a poster unveiling of a new name for Cape Town in honour of deceased leader Dawid Kruiper.

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Iol.co.za

Cape Town Gig Guide - May 24, 2013

8pm. Free. Tel: 021 488 2555. lMusic Alla Kaap featuring Percy Sledge, PJ Powers, The Rockets , The Boyz and Zayn Adam at GrandWest Casino tonight and tomorrow.

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The Guardian

Addressing land rights can make social change possible

Land rights often become the elephant in the room in African agriculture discussions.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, South Africa, World News

Thu May 23, 2013

Mail & Guardian

Umhlaba 1913-2013: Primeval snapshots of our lost and stolen worlds

From Hugh Exton's portraits to images of Marikana, an exhibition that remembers the Land Act also pays tribute to socially conscious photography.

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Related Topix: Photography, Arts, World News, South Africa, Africa,

Mail & Guardian

Cape Town: Working it out at Frankie's

Welcome to Frankie's Gym, where local gangsters leave their knives at the door and use their fists to pump iron.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Weight Training, Fitness

News24

Under-fire minister attacks 'killer' MPs

Cape Town - Men in opposition benches were part of the apartheid-era army that maimed and killed people, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday.

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Mail & Guardian

Young Voices: Do you think media freedom is important?

Most of the 82 primary schoolchildren in the Western Cape and Gauteng have said that media freedom is one thing that should not be touched.

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Mail & Guardian

IFP narrowly takes ANC ward seat in Mpumalanga by-election

The IFP has won a ward seat from the ANC in Albert Luthuli municipality in a Mpumalanga by-election, IEC results have shown.

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Business Wire

VectorVest Releases VectorVest 7 South Africa

The advanced platform, already available for US and UK markets, gives VectorVest clients trading in JSE shares new analytic features that are dynamically enhanced and easy to use, providing even deeper views into 370 JSE listed shares for successful trading.

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News24

Man 'sorry' for killing Cape Town mom

A Cape Flats man has asked for forgiveness after confessing to killing a Claremont woman, The Cape Times reported on Thursday.

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Iol.co.za

Cape Town Gallery Guide - May 23, 2013

Main Gallery: Three-and-a-half metres: committee's choice. The 10 AVA committee members - Stacey Adriaans, Matthew Blackman, Caroline Coates, Chantal Louw, Marilyn Martin, Richard Mudariki, James Nilsen, Chad Rossouw, Elgin Rust, Cobus van Bosch - have each selected a work or works by contemporary artists to be exhibited in their allocated ... (more)

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Wed May 22, 2013

Los Angeles Times

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Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti speaks to supporters as his wife, Amy Wakeland, offers an encouraging pat at the Hollywood Palladium on Tuesday night.

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Iol.co.za

Gig sounds a call for Africa's revival

FASHION FORWARD: Afro-pop duo Mafikizolo are reunited, with Nhlanhla Nciza and Theo Kgosinkwe belting it out as the opening act of this year s Cape Town International Jazz Festival held in the Mother City.

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