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US Tourist's Shooting Revives Crime Fears at World Cup

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (July 1) -- An American tourist was trailed by a gang of criminals, then robbed and shot on a Johannesburg street just after dark, reviving fears of South Africa's high crime rate among jittery soccer fans here for the World Cup. David James Bueche, 35, flew from Los Angeles and landed in South...

Vuvuzelas: Banned, Blown, Embraced!

(June 18) -- Those bloody -- dzzzzzzzz -- vuvuzelas are -- dzzzzzzzz -- driving the world batty. These days, you can't enjoy a proper football match -- dzzzzzzzz -- (or article) without the incessant, cloying buzz of the South African plastic trumpet in the background. It's like the South Africans have given the world a...

Fark's Weird News Quiz (Puppy Hurling Edition)

(June 18) -- Editor's note: How well do you follow weird news? Find out with this strange news quiz from our obsessive friends at Fark.com. Test your knowledge, and check your answers below. 1. Internet culture lost a battle to a traditional organization earlier this week when: a) BP network administrators disrupted a...

Canada Arrests Ex-Apartheid Shrink for Sex Abuse

(March 29) -- In apartheid-era South Africa, psychiatrist Aubrey Levin was known as "Dr. Shock" for his alleged attempts to "cure" gay army conscripts with electricity. Now, 15 years after he fled the country for Canada -- where he worked as a lecturer and psychiatrist at a Calgary medical school -- Levin has been arrested...

Mandela's Ex-Wife Says He Let Down S. Africa's Blacks

(March 10) -- Nelson Mandela's ex-wife has launched a scathing attack on the former South African president, accusing the 92-year-old of betraying the anti-apartheid movement he once fronted. During an interview with London's Evening Standard newspaper, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela berated her former husband for being...

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05/31/12 Teenage star Burt to swap Norwich for South Africa... Source: The Advertiser - UK Talented teenager Steffi Burt will swap Norwich for South Africa this summer as she continues her rapid rise to netball stardom.
05/31/12 Cameroon Presents Its Inaugural Africa Day... Source: AllAfrica.com Cameroon will come alive on the southern tip of Africa this Friday 25th May, as the Land of Promist Project presents its Cameroon Africa Day Celebration event, at the Protea Hotel Victoria Junction, Green Point Cape Town. The event which aims to raise funds, entertain and educate is an initiative that was started and funded by organiser Solomon Atah Gaye, an up and coming Cameroonian film director and producer.
05/31/12 South Africans live for now, ignore calls to save Source: Mail & Guardian - Johannesburg - South Africa Like many South Africans, Nkululeko Makhaya has only the most basic financial strategy for his future: a pension contribution deducted from his salary and R100 put aside each month towards family funeral cover.
05/31/12 Nuclear power and fracking? Let's do it, says Peters Source: Mail & Guardian - Johannesburg - South Africa "We cannot, because we are black, end up having a dark continent," Peters said at a business breakfast hosted by the New Age. South Africa was rich in uranium reserves that could be used to create an abundance of energy.
05/31/12 Baker & McKenzie Launches in S. Africa With 31-Member... Source: Cal Law Baker & McKenzie has launched in South Africa with the hire of Dewey & LeBoeuf's 31-strong Johannesburg office, one of the disintegrating firm's last remaining international bases.