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57 min ago | CFR.org

University Students to Learn Zulu in South Africa

The University of KwaZulu-Natal has announced that starting next year, all entering students must study Zulu .

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4 hrs ago | The Atlantic

Where Else Do Tornadoes Strike?

The U.S. gets hit the most, but South Africa, Bangladesh, and Canada also see a fair amount of twisters.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Tornado, Natural Disasters,

8 hrs ago | KRCR

Okla. celebs react to tornado devastation

Reba McEntire has physically been in Cape Town, South Africa, but her heart has been with those suffering in her home state of Oklahoma.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Oklahoma, World News, Moore, OK, Castle, OK, Pop/Rock, Hanson, Entertainment

12 hrs ago | Iol.co.za

SBV trial man a murderer

Fifteen years after being acquitted in the sensational R31.4 million SBV robbery, a Durban businessman now faces possible life imprisonment for murder after a nine-year-old girl and her grandmother were killed in a hand grenade attack while sleeping.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Mail & Guardian

BBC report on white South Africans distorts truth

A controversial BBC report on white South Africans has been condemned by the ANC and the DA for being incongruent with the reality in the country.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

The New Zealand Herald

Visitors flocking to NZ in record numbers

Chinese visitors usually opted to book package deals or tours of New Zealand, with the Bay of Islands, Rotorua and Queenstown.

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Related Topix: New Zealand Travel, Travel, Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Pacific Travel,

KHOU-TV Houston

Court frees man in murder that shocked SAfricans

A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South Africans.

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New York Daily News

Brother of Oscar Pistorius acquitted of culpable homicide in 2008 road death

Carl Pistorius, the older brother of South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, was acquitted of culpable homicide over a deadly road crash five years ago.

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Iol.co.za

Mpisane audit spurned, court told

The Sars audit specialist who is testifying in the tax fraud trial of businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane admitted on Monday that her bosses had questioned the credibility of her audit.

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Iol.co.za

Pupils will have to learn African language

All primary school pupils will have to learn an African language as soon as next year according to the national Department of Basic Education.

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GhanaWeb

Kufuor back home from South Africa, Switzerland

Former President John Agyekum Kufour on Monday returned home from South Africa and Switzerland after engagements to woo investors to Africa.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Iol.co.za

Wage demands alarm SA's volatile rand

South Africa's rand hit new four-year lows on Monday after Mercedes-Benz said workers at an assembly plant had staged an illegal strike and a government-allied union demanded big wage hikes for coal and gold miners.

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Iol.co.za

Security upped after ex-gangster shot

FROM THE INSIDE: Two former gangsters take a break in a centre, set by the Western Cape Community Outreach organisation, where they are going through a programme to help them cut themselves off from lives of crime then rejoin society.

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News24

2 to appear for Cape Town pupil's murder

Some people believe the DA will reinstate Apartheid should they win the national elections.

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News24

Unclear if Guptas will be charged

Some people believe the DA will reinstate Apartheid should they win the national elections.

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Related Topix: World News, US Military, US Air Force, Wedding

Jerusalem Post

South African Agricultural Experts Visit the Arava

JNF shares its knowledge and experience all over the world, and is committed to addressing key global issues through mutual networking, knowledge sharing and spreading environmental advances beyond Israel's borders.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Agriculture, Science

Iol.co.za

Scorned woman guilty of murder

The woman who hired two men to burn down her love rival's house was found guilty of murder and arson on Friday.

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Iol.co.za

Parents of dead baby still await answers

Five months after Janine Meiring's newborn son Donavan died, just a few hours after he slipped from her body and bounced on the floor at a Pretoria hospital on Christmas Eve, she is still struggling to get answers and a death certificate.

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Sun May 19, 2013

Korea Herald

Energy of South African musical explodes on stage in Seoul

Six years after its 2007 Seoul run, South Africa's iconic musical "Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness" is back in Korea to show off the country's colorful and explosive culture, deeply linked to its stormy history.

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The Globe and Mail

South Africa union seeks pay raises of up to 60 per cent for miners

A man rides his bike past the Lonmin mine outside Rustenburg, in the northwest of Johannesburg, on Nov.

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