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South Africa

Type: Country

Name: South Africa

population: 48,051,580

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 47 mins ago - 3 reports

Barack Obama

Barack Obama coming to Africa a trip alive with possibilities

US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama are planning a three-nation tour to Africa, 26 June to 3 July. The visit is one that has long been anticipated by Africans, but has it come too late to generate the kind of enormous buzz that might ... [Published Daily Maverick - 47 mins ago]

Entities: Barack Obama, South Africa, Accra, Kenya, Cape Town

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 57 mins ago - 3 reports

South Africa keen to boost trade relations

SIALKOT: South Africa is keen to boost trade ties with Pakistan by making investment in tourism and joint ventures in different sectors. The High Commissioner of South Africa in Pakistan Mpendulo Kumalo talking to the industrialists and exporters on Wednesday ... [Published Daily Times - 57 mins ago]

Entities: Sialkot, South Africa, Pakistan

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 6 reports

Jacob Zuma

S. African MPs rubbish Indian wedding...

CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s political opposition yesterday rubbished a government probe that cleared President Jacob Zuma over the use of a military base for a plush Indian wedding.Slamming the investigation as a whitewash, lawmakers demanded that Zuma ... [Published Arab News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Jacob Zuma, David Maynier, South Africa, Jeff Radebe

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 4 reports

Applicant has ‘epileptic attack’

Pitermaritzburg - A man who died after a fitness test in KwaZulu-Natal last year succumbed because of an epileptic attack, a commission of inquiry heard on Wednesday.Ravenda Padayachee, SC, for the KwaZulu-Natal transport department, said this emerged ... [Published South Africa Post - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Pietermaritzburg, Fitness, Harry Gwala, Zweli Mkhize

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 16 reports

Cardiff University

Climate Change Benefitted Prehistoric Humans in South Africa

Majorly it has been said that people as well as other creatures living in the world have been harmed by climate change. However, a new research has unveiled that such is not the case with early humans living in South Africa.Study researchers from Cardiff ... [Published French Tribune - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, South Africa, Cardiff University

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 12 reports

African National Congress

Globe Editorial: Canada should lift outdated visa restrictions on ANC members

Government officials in South Africa are right to express unhappiness with Canada’s policy of placing visa restrictions on members of the African National Council. The policy – a vestige of the turbulent anti-apartheid battles of the past – is outdated ... [Published Globe and Mail - 10 hours ago]

Entities: African National Congress, Canada, South Africa, David Johnston

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 9 reports

Congress of South African Trade Unions

Cosatu threatens total shutdown of Gauteng highways

Cosatu has warned that it plans a total shutdown of Gauteng's highways during its upcoming protests against the planned e-tolls system. Cosatu's provincial secretary, Dumisani Dakile, says in previous marches on the highways, some lanes were left open ... [Published SABC - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Congress of South African Trade Unions, protest, Western Cape High Court, High Court Judge

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 18 reports

10 chrome miners shot and wounded in S.Africa

JOHANNESBURG: Ten striking chrome miners were shot and wounded with rubber bullets in a dawn clash with mine security on Tuesday, South African police and unions said.Some 500 miners at a small chrome mine in the restive Rustenburg mining region northwest ... [Published The Gulf Today - May 21 2013]

Entities: Mineral, Lanxess AG, National Union of Mineworkers, Workers, South Africa

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 7 reports

Where is the justice for Anene?

On Tuesday, the state announced that it would be dropping all charges against Jonathan Davids, one of the two Bredasdorp men accused of raping and killing Anene Booysen. The NPA said it simply didnt have enough evidence to secure a conviction. We at the ... [Published Daily Maverick - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Bredasdorp (South Africa), Rape, Anene Booysen

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 8 reports

South Africa: Nation 'Must Conserve Water'

South Africa's plans for a water-secure future are in place, says Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa, but will require all South Africans to play their part in conserving water.Briefing the media before her budget vote in Parliament ... [Published AllAfrica.com - 19 hours ago]

Entities: South Africa, Edna Molewa, Census, Infrastructure, Water Resources

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 31 reports

Barack Obama again shuns Nigeria in third visit to Africa

Washington, DC, US - Africa's most populous nation and one of the continent's economic giants has again been left out as US President Barack Obama plans to embark on his third trip to Africa, and the second to sub-Saharan Africa, since he was first elected ... [Published Afrique En Ligne - May 21 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Barack Obama, Senegal, Tanzania, Pana (United States)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 9 reports

Mercedes strike ends, union demands pay hike

CAPE TOWN - A two-day wildcat strike at a Mercedes Benz plant in South Africa ended on Tuesday (21/05/2013) but industrial union NUMSA demanded a hefty pay hike for the sector, raising the prospect of labour unrest in factories alongside turmoil in the ... [Published The Herald Online - May 21 2013]

Entities: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, Mercedes-Benz Cars Division, Cape Town

Quotes

Gura's research will focus on the Austrian National Museum in the post-World War II era. "Basically, I want to see how Austria used the museum to reconfigure it national identity and how it redefined itself and separated itself completely from Germany."

READER SUBMITTED: Five Trinity Students, Alumni Win Fulbrights For Research Or Teaching [Published Hartford Courant - 17 mins ago]

"What Stalin made me drink seemed pretty savage: Winston, who by that time was complaining of a slight headache, seemed wisely to be confining himself to a comparatively innocuous effervescent Caucasian red wine."

Ministers ordered bugging of King Edward VIII's phones, records reveal [Published Guardian.co.uk - 18 mins ago]

"I always told dad (late legendary jockey and Hong Kong trainer George Moore) that Singapore has changed to a very professional racing nation."

Another fairy-tale ending [Published Asiaone - 33 mins ago]

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Blogs

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Israel Releases Damning Report on Al-Dura Hoax [Published Breitbart Feed - 3 hours ago] The Israeli Government has released a comprehensive report into the infamous Al-Dura incident of Sep. 30, 2000, declaring that the 12-year-old Palestinian boy was not killed by Israeli soldiers and that journalists had perpetrated a "misleading and ...
South Africa Police Website Hacked, Informers E... [Published SecurityWeek RSS Feed - 5 hours ago] JOHANNESBURG - Hackers cracked into the website of South Africa's police and downloaded information that could leave whistleblowers vulnerable, police and a government data agency said Wednesday. read more ...
Flick App by Cape Town student [Published iMod - 6 hours ago] A new app launched today called Flick (Easy to transfer files between iOS, OSX, Windows and Linux.) and it’s reported that it was created by a 20 year old Cape Town student! Absolutely awesome to see things like things coming out of Cape Town, incredibly ...
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Audio/Video

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Cash in Transit's High Tech Security systems [Published ABN Digital - YouTube - 12 hours ago]
Funding to fight AIDS cut in South Africa [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - 13 hours ago]
VIDEO: South Africa's growing prosperity [Published BBC News Video - World - 17 hours ago]
'Guptagate' and power in South Africa [Published CNN.com - Video - May 20 2013]
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