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Moonda: SA starting to gel dangerously
ESPNcricinfo.com
These days when South Africa win a Test match, that's all the time they need. For the second time this summer, they have wrapped up victory in little over seven sessions, pushing the match in fast-forward and earning themselves some extra timeoff over ...
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ESPNcricinfo.com
South Africa's 'Red Pimpernel' recalls armed struggle
BBC News
By Peter Biles BBC World Affairs correspondent Fifty years ago on a summer evening in the South African city of Durban, 23-year-old Ronnie Kasrils was sweating as he crawled through a field of maize trying to avoid detection. ...
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BBC News
Bay of plenty
Independent Online
The ship was carrying 500 Mozambican slaves on board and of these, according to Malcolm Turner in his book Shipwrecks & Salvage in South Africa, 200 of them drowned. For surfers, Glen Beach, which is tucked away in the small cove on the northern end of ...
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Independent Online
Hot ideas right for summer
Independent Online
Geraghty's Four-Way Fin System is one of the most significant breakthroughs in surf board fin technology in recent years, and is very popular in South Africa, Australia, Europe and the US. Peter Wallenda of Cape Town pioneered the development of ...
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Independent Online
South Africa trip can help me achieve Olympic Games dream, says Carlisle's Lee ...
News & Star
There is still plenty of time to achieve a qualifying throw. Hopefully the warm weather training in South Africa will really help.” Doran has set up a new website for athletics fans and potential sponsors, www.leedoran.com. Lee Doran photo.
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News & Star
Future rests with this fab five
Sydney Morning Herald
The 20-year-old Marsh made his Twenty20 and ODI debut, against South Africa, in October and is likely to gain further international exposure this summer in the limited overs game following the Tests against India. Marsh's greatest threat for the ...
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Southern African Rhodes Scholars 2011
Politicsweb
Matthews received numerous awards at Harvard, including the $10000 Philippe Wamba SummerResearch Prize for his work on HIV/AIDS denialism in Botswana and South Africa, the Ephraim Isaac Prize for excellence in African Studies, and the Morris Kronfeld ...
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Broad: South Africans tightest
SPORT24
Clearly the amount of indoors time has been frustrating Broad, too, as he tweeted on Wednesday: “Is the weather as bad as this back home? No bowling here but could waterski.” And a few days earlier: “Potchefstroom, South Africa. ...
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Zimbabwe/South Africa: Mighty Warriors Gear Up for Banyana
AllAfrica.com
Although South Africa, who have been nominated for the Caf African Women Team of the Year award together with Cameroon and Nigeria, are on a bye in the preliminary round, they would be using the match as part of their Summer Olympics Games preparations ...
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Long weekend, loads of gigs
Independent Online
In an interview with a US radio station, Joe said: “It's the festive season, it's summer, it's Christmas. I perceive this as the perfect opportunity to interact with my South African fans. I'm looking forward to spending quality time with couples, ...
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Independent Online
South African ferrochrome producers to polarize - TEX Report
SteelGuru
The biggest and probably the most difficult to solve among the factors is that the producers are suffering from the low ferrochrome prices, below costs for most of the producers in South Africa. Therefore, the stainless steel industry, the main user of ...
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Couple choose mission work in South Africa
ThisWeekNews
By JENNIFER BOYTAR A short mission trip has led one local family make the decision to pull up their roots and move to South Africa. Longtime Delaware residents Kevin and Cristi Quist decided to make such a life-altering decision after reading “Crazy...
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ThisWeekNews
Remixed carols and a very funny MC…
Independent Online (blog)
MAGNET THEATRE'S SUMMER SEASON 2011! Magnet Theatre presents some drama work for their forthcoming 'Summer Season' ahead of the Festive time at Magnet Theatre in Observatory, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on Thursday 16th November 2011. ...
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Independent Online (blog)
Shrien Dewani 'not faking mental illness'
BBC News
The South African government is opposing the appeal. Hugo Keith QC, representing the South African government, said Mr Dewani's defence was just a rerun of evidence that had already been heard in the summer. He described Judge Riddle's decision to...
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BBC News
Coca-Cola dream team for South Africa
IPPmedia
In 2007 and 2008 outstanding Copa Coca-Cola players participated in the summerBrazilian Football Camp while 2009 and 2010 Copa Coca-Cola best players took part in the pre-FIFA World Cup Inter-Africa Copa Coca-Cola tournament in South Africa. ...
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IPPmedia
Ponting well aware of Test heat
Sydney Morning Herald
... retain their spots for the rest of the summer following worrying form slumps. Ponting has gone almost two years without a Test century, while Hussey returned averages of just 15 and 7.66 runs in recent series against South Africa and New Zealand. ...
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SuperSport secures Africa TV rights for 2012 Olympics
Rapid tv news
SuperSport has committed to have four news crews in London for the duration of the SummerOlympics, following South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and other African teams, preparing both live and daily highlights packages. The broadcaster says it will also ...
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Acsa gears up for summer season
BusinessLIVE
Cape Town International Airport has geared up its festive season plans ahead of the busy summer season, according to the Airports Company South Africa. It said on Monday that passenger numbers for November had shown an increase of 6% compared with the ...
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BusinessLIVE
Toulalan relishing Malaga challenge
Fifa.com
Following the French national side's disappointing showing at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ last summer, Jeremy Toulalan entertained serious thoughts about hanging up his football boots altogether. Then a key figure in Les Bleus' starting XI, ...
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SAGDB more than just charity for Maritz
SuperSport.com
Although Pretoria professional Martin Maritz has been based in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the United States since 1996, his heart has never left South Africa. The lanky golfer returns home every summer to campaign on the Sunshine Tour and it was his recent...
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SuperSport.com
Bead there, done that
Times LIVE
It inspired a new generation of uniquely South African designers such as Craig Native, Darkie, Mantsho and Sun Goddess, all of whom brought to life snapshots of our evolving national identity via fashion. It was just a matter of time before the ...
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Times LIVE
Breakout Players of 2011
Golf.com
This was the year Charl Schwartzel went from being a shy, little-known golfer from South Africa to an international celebrity. Winning the Masters, the world's most glamorous championship, will do that. Schwartzel's new-found fame was evident when he ...
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Corn prices dip well below summer highs
Peoria Journal Star
Combined corn production in South Africa, Argentina, and Brazil is expected to be 11 percent larger than that of 2011, and South American soybean production is expected to increase by 1.5 percent, he said. "US soybean exports are projected at 1.3 ...
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Coaching rivals keen to keep peace
The Age
Coaching adversaries Mickey Arthur and Duncan Fletcher will get along just fine thissummer so long as Australia and India don't double-book the nets. Fletcher helped Arthur plot Australia's downfall when South Africa hired him as a coaching consultant...
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The Age
Jacques Burger: Proud Namibian
Sportinglife.com
Saracens flanker Jacques Burger has called on England to arrange midweek fixtures against Namibia during their three-Test summer tour of South Africa in 2012. England are expected to travel with around 45 players and play at least two tour matches in ...
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Sportinglife.com
The Eagles are about to land in SA
Times LIVE
South African fans will also be treated to solo hits from band members such as Boys Of Summer, Life In The Fast Lane and Dirty Laundry. The Eagles have sold more than 120 million albums worldwide, earning five number one US singles and six Grammy ...
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Times LIVE
Three Nova Scotians among protesters bounced in Durban
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Protesters hold a night vigil as talks at the climate change summit stall in Durban,South Africa, Friday, Dec 9, 2011. Negotiators from Europe, small islands threatened by rising oceans and the world's poorest countries sought to keep alive the only ...
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TheChronicleHerald.ca
BEST OF 2011: For your beach bag
Times LIVE
DarkMarket (Random House Struik), the follow-on of McMafia, Glenny's brilliant analysis of post Cold War organised crime in which South Africa has its very own chapter, is an exploration of the murkier realms of the internet and the mindboggling amount ...
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Times LIVE
Young, gifted and broken
Adelaide Now
Fast bowler Pat Cummins, who had an electric debut in the Australian Test side, taking 7/117 against South Africa, has been sidelined for the summer with a problem in his heel. This week Shaun Tait bluntly told the 18-year-old prodigy to get used to it ...
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Summer Series Hits Marondera
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
But Simmons is unlikely to have it all his own way as competition seems to be tough in this year'sSummer Series as evidenced by the outcome of the first round at Donnybrook on Wednesday night where South Africa's Avis ruled the roost in the main MX1 ...
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Seasons in the sun would be very easy to handle
Daily Mail
Another initiative is the possibility of England playing a Premiership XV prior to theirsummer tour of South Africa, with the Reebok Stadium in Bolton a possible venue. Call up? Ex-England captain Lewis Moody would be an interesting selection Should ...
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Daily Mail
Reflections on the past 15 months (2)
The Nation Newspaper
It is true that we had been discussing with the South African Football Association with the intention of playing a match on that day. But that has now been rendered impossible by the fact that on that day, the Super Eagles will be at the Amahoro ...
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Rosemary Harris Is Road to Mecca's Controversial Artist, Starting Dec. 16 on ...
Playbill.com
Gordon Edelstein (Roundabout's 2010 production of The Glass Menagerie) directs the play by 2011 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award winner Fugard, the major playwright of South Africa, known for Master Harold…and the Boys (which Roundabout ...
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Playbill.com
Ominous signs for Aussies
The Canberra Times
There will not be any charity should Tendulkar be in a similar position during this summer's Test series. When Tendulkar crunched 111 against South Africa during this year's World Cup, few would have thought he would have been stranded on 99 ...
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Summer's Meanest Henchmen : ZIGZAG - Surfing Magazine | South ...
These are Summer's henchmen, and they're looking for nana's to catch out... ... Summer time is the season for drinking at bars on the beach and generally ... The sun is the Ike Turner of the natural world; it dishes out a lethal PK that kills nearly two South Africans a day. ... It's old news, the sun warning, but don't take it lightly. ...
www.zigzag.co.za/features/.../Summer's-Meanest-Henchmen
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