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1 hr ago | 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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6 hrs ago | 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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10 hrs ago | 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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14 hrs ago | 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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14 hrs ago | 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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17 hrs ago | 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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BBC News

Do white South Africans have a future?

Apartheid South Africa looked after white people and nobody else. Now some of its white communities face a level of deprivation, or of violence, which threatens their future in the country.

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Oxford Mail

'For art's sake let's keep Didcot's iconic cooling towers

DIDCOT'S iconic cooling towers should live on as an adventure park and giant mural, according to a woman inspired by a redundant power plant in South Africa.

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Iol.co.za

India nabs 'SA mule' with 26kg of drugs

A woman believed to be South African has been arrested in India after apparently being found with 26kg of drugs on being searched by officials at Mumbai International Airport.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Africa, World News

The Times of India

Gupta family wedding scandal: South African officials used President Zuma's name

This picture courtesy of the Gupta family shows Vela Gupta and her husband Indian-born Aaskash Jahajgarhia posing with relatives and guests during ceremonies for their wedding in Sun City, South Africa, on May 1, 2013.

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Mail & Guardian

South Africa left in mourning after Mbuli's death

President Jacob Zuma, political parties and the broadcasting community has expressed shock and sadness at the death of SABC presenter Vuyo Mbuli.

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Iol.co.za

Sex workers want legal trade

Sex workers in Durban on Friday welcomed the call by the Commission for Gender Equality for the decriminalisation of sex work.

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Sat May 18, 2013

The Miami Herald

The constant traveler revisits Africa

Age slows us all, but a few rare types sail through the years somehow unimpeded.

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Iol.co.za

Workers on illegal strike at chrome mine

Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group Lanxess have been suspended since Thursday after workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Saturday.

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Iol.co.za

Second cancer doc quits Addington

A second top oncologist has quit in the wake of the KwaZulu-Natal health department's failure to keep two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines operational at Durban's Addington Hospital, Sapa was told on Friday.

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Iol.co.za

JCC bookkeeper to plead guilty

A bookkeeper who allegedly stole thousands of rands from the Jewish Community Centre will plead guilty to a charge of theft later this month, the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court heard on Friday.

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Iol.co.za

'SA citizens linked to terror groups'

State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele told Parliament this week there was evidence that several South African citizens were linked to international terrorism organisations, including al-Qaeda. Cwele expressed confidence that on the weight of the evidence gathered the suspects would be arrested and charged soon.

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Iol.co.za

Murderer apologises to family

A carpenter who had denied he killed Pietermaritzburg widow Venotha Ince, came clean on Thursday and apologised to Ince's family for what he had done.

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