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2 hrs ago | Mail & Guardian

SA to house World Cup fans in cruise liners

South Africa, short of accommodation for nearly half a million fans expected to flock to next year's soccer World Cup, plans to use cruise liners as floating hotels.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

Nuvo.net

News of the weird

The first line of "defense" at the 400 Iraqi police checkpoints in Baghdad are small wands with antennas that supposedly detect explosives, but which U.S. officials say are about as useful as Ouija boards.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Life, Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural, South Africa, Home Listing, Home, Offbeat

The Star

No use vilifying Mbeki, says Tutu

Pointing fingers at the administration of former president Thabo Mbeki was not helpful in dealing with South Africa's HIV/Aids problems, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said yesterday.

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KEPR CBS 19

Furry felons rob SAfrican tourists of tasty treats

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

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Tue Nov 24, 2009

WIS-TV Columbia

Furry felons rob SAfrican tourists, steal food

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

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Football.co.uk

FIFA to meet over play-offs

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called an extraordinary meeting of the world governing body's executive committee following the incidents which occurred during the World Cup play-offs. At the top of the list of topics to be discussed is likely to be Thierry Henry's handball in the France versus Republic of Ireland game.

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Dear Kitty. Some blog

New chameleon species discovered in Tanzania

Dr Andrew Marshall, from the Environment Department at the University of York, first spotted the animal while surveying monkeys in the Magombera Forest when he disturbed a twig snake eating one.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom

Strife continues for COPE in the Western Cape

By Ofentse Mokae 22 November 2009 The strife in the Congress of the People continues with a group of Cope members convening a grudge meeting in Langa, Cape Town this afternoon.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

Sunday Times

SA government knew about coup: mercenary

A gun was placed to his head and he was threatened with death by an adviser to Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, mercenary Nick du Toit has told Rapport.

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Related Topix: Equatorial Guinea, World News, Africa, Teodoro Obiang, South Africa,

AllAfrica.com

South Africa: It Takes Fancy Footwork to Do the Diski

Diski dance, a sequence of moves based on soccer tricks, is the official World Cup dance - and the city is out to set a world record for the most people doing it at the same time at the launch of the Cape Town Summer Festival this weekend.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Pop/Rock, Coda, Africa

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Independent Online

Prostitutes fear 2010 clean-up

Jabulisile works the streets in Hillbrow, a rough area normally avoided by tourists, but just a stone's throw from one of the World Cup stadiums that she hopes will bring in visitors looking for sex.

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Scoop

Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

Saturday, 21 November 2009, 1:08 pm Press Release: United Nations The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Mercury

Stellenbosch student's murder: case postponed

Stellenbosch University student Jacobus Eksteen will hear on October 13 when he will be tried for allegedly raping and killing fellow-student Erin van Rensburg.

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IRIN

South Africa: Funds needed for displaced Zimbabweans

JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 - The number of Zimbabweans displaced after some of their shacks in an informal settlement outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, were attacked and demolished by local South African residents, has risen to about 3,000, said the South African Red Cross Society.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Pretoria News

What's next for De Doorns migrants?

Cape Town - Up to 2 700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary "safety camp" in a rural South African town following attacks on their shacks in a dispute about jobs, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

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Antrim Today

Safari tourists launch legal action after lion incident

A group of tourists, including a West Midlands couple, has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions.

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Related Topix: South Africa, World News, West Midlands County, England, Warwickshire County, England, United Kingdom

Wicklow People

12:07 Tourists sue park over lion scare

A group of British tourists has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions, it was revealed.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Daily News

They hate us, says Zimbabwean woman

View the gallery Natasha Prince Staff Reporter Scores of De Doorns residents, most of them farmworkers, ripped down shacks belonging to Zimbabweans this morning, accusing them of "stealing our jobs". The Zimbabwean families were forced to pack up their belongings and seek refuge in a community hall in the Hex River Valley town, which is about two ...

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Hampshire Chronicle

Jennifer Hudson to play Winnie

Jennifer Hudson is set to play Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie in a forthcoming film.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

IRIN News

AFRICA: Trying to give sex workers safer alternatives

A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV.

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