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1 hr 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

4 hrs ago | 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

Fri May 24, 2013

Mail & Guardian

Computers donated in Heideveld

The aim of the computer resource centre is to bring education and knowledge to the community.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Travel, South Africa Travel, Cape Town, South Africa Travel, Africa Travel, Africa, Nigeria Travel, Nigeria Travel, Africa, Mali Travel, Mali Travel

Mail & Guardian

Troubled satellite-maker may still find space

SunSpace, started by a group of University of Stellenbosch students, has had a difficult and uncertain three years, filled with unfulfilled government promises and contracts that failed to materialise.

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Related Topix: South Africa, World News

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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Related Topix: South Africa, Africa,

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

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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Related Topix: South Africa, World News

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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Related Topix: Travel, South Africa Travel, Cape Town, South Africa Travel, World News, South Africa, Africa Travel, Tempe, AZ,

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

Mail & Guardian

It's time for a king-sized uprising in Swaziland

Swazis are heading for parliamentary elections in August, presenting pro-democracy groups with the dilemma that all liberation movements eventually face whether to participate in or boycott state structures and institutions.

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Related Topix: Swaziland, World News, Africa, Mswati Iii, South Africa

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

Crossing the language barrier

It's been a long time coming, but learning an African language will soon be compulsory in schools.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Africa, Family, Kids,

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

Rwandan exiles dread going home

With their refugee status being annulled, Rwandans fear what is in store for them if they go back.

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Related Topix: World News, Rwanda, Africa, South Africa, Burundi

Mail & Guardian

Refugees 'sending wrong signal'

The Rwandan high commissioner to South Africa this week sought to assure returnees that they will be fully integrated into society and disputed some of their concerns about their safety and allegations of a clampdown on civil liberties in that country.

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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

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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Iol.co.za

Minister selective over e-tolls: Outa

Transport Minister Ben Martins is failing in his attempts to show government did proper consultations on e-tolling, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance said on Thursday.

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