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AFRICA News, Jan 15, 2012

S.Africa boosts efforts to protect Kruger rhinos
AFP
PRETORIA — South Africa announced Sunday it was beefing up the number of rangers in the world-renowned Kruger national park after an alarming jump in the number of rhinos slain by poachers for their horns. "This ongoing poaching of our rhino ...
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AFP
Apollo Tyres fined Rs 30 crore in S Africa on cartelisation charge
NDTV
Apollo Tyres has been been asked to cough up 45 million rands (about Rs 30 crore) as penalty for indulging in cartelisation in South Africa, a dispute which the company said relates to period when the firm was managed by Dunlop. ...
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Oprah greets first graduates of S.Africa school
Outcome Magazine (blog)
01/15/2012 US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey cried Saturday as the first graduates of her South African girls' academy thanked her for her effort to turn a handful of impoverished girls into elite leaders. With the 72 graduates sitting behind her in ...
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Duminy helps S. Africa take a 2-0 lead
The Hindu
Jean-Paul Duminy (66 not out) guided South Africa to a five-wicket win in the second One-Day International against Sri Lanka at the Buffalo Park here on Saturday. With this win, South Africa took a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. ...
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E-tolls not my idea - Ndebele
News24
Johannesburg: The elusive metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert SouthAfrica's largest city... Now R216.95 Johannesburg - Transport Minister S'bu Ndebele has distanced himself from the controversial e-tolling on Gauteng's freeways which was ...
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Supermodel and UN advocate Gisele Bündchen backs access to energy in Kenya
EnerPub
Just two per cent of global investment is needed," she added, speaking a week before the global launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. She visited Kibera, East Africa"s largest slum, to see biogas centres where human waste is ...
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FBIs Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 13, 2012
Jornal.us News Agency
... who secretly converted to Islam days before he separated from the Army was charged with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, a foreign terrorist organization, and was arrested upon his return to Maryland after traveling to Africa. ...
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Jornal.us News Agency
Rapper's rivalry leaves one dead in Sierra Leone
Africa Review
But police Spokesman Ibrahim Samura told Africa Review that one person died in the accident that resulted from the car chase. He said rapper LAJ was in custody helping the police in their investigations, and that Big Fish was at large, being sought by ...
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Africa Review
Prester John
BusinessWorld Online Edition
Since then, Prester John and his kingdom had brought explorers across Africaand Asia. Prester (a corruption of “Presbyter,” priest) allegedly ruled a vast kingdom comprising “three Indias,” where no crime was ever committed, “honey and milk flowed ...
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Iran tension – oil lower
Oman Daily Observer
Another supply worry is the threat of strikes among the oil union in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer. This is part of nationwide protest, which has paralysed the country, after the government announced the removal of fuel subsidies. ...
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Oman Daily Observer
Mighty Warriors triumph
The Zimbabwe Standard
The Botswana side, backed by a huge crowd who gained free entrance into the stadium, had hoped to emulate their male counterparts who qualified for theAfrica Cup of Nations which gets underway in a week's time in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. ...
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Frackville native hikes Kilimanjaro to help children with HIV/AIDS
Republican & Herald
AFCA is a nonprofit organization that helps HIV-positive/AIDS children and their guardians in sub-Saharan Africa with critical AIDS and related medications, medical equipment and food to its partners. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is very strenuous, ...
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Republican & Herald
Amtrak Cascades train: Ride the rails on America¿s Pacific North-West line
Daily Mail
It's the Flying Scotsman, the Golden Arrow and South Africa'sBlue Train all coupled together, only bigger. Her 2257-mile journey from Chicago had taken nearly two days. Amtrak's advertising slogan, in the land of the occasional exaggeration, ...
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Daily Mail
American IT solution integrator, SeeGee(SM) Technologies, Inc. branches out ...
Sacramento Bee
It has three physical locations: Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and offices in Denver, Colorado and Johannesburg, South Africa. SeeGee(SM) Technologies are able to maximize your technology and reduce costs by managing the complete lifecycle of IT ...
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Lack of focus: Tanzania`s bed of roses, or thorns?
IPPmedia
Absence of intelligence could also be said about building a new port and airstrip in Bagamoyo instead of working out modalities for decongesting the Dar es Salaam port whose cargo handling equipment are second to none in southernAfrica! ...
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`Boko Haram no longer a purely Nigerian problem`
Zee News
Dr J Peter Pham is director of the Michael S Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. Kamna: Why has Nigeria failed so far in defeating Boko Haram? Dr Pham: Nigeria's failure to end the threat of Boko Haram can be attributed to several different ...
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Dhoni cops blame; cool on Laxman
Sydney Morning Herald
India has now lost seven Tests in a row on the road, following a 4-0 defeat in England last year, and on the ICC Test rankings drops behind South Africa to third, where it will be joined by rising Australia if a series whitewash is completed in ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Islamist hatred for Jews
Ynetnews
Robert S. Wistrich is the director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (Random House, ...
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Fitch revises S Africa's outlook to negative
Oman Daily Observer
JOHANNESBURG — Ratings agency Fitch revised South Africa'soutlook from stable to negative, citing the country's failure to create enough jobs and to speed up economic growth. "Not least of the problems that require urgent attention is the economy's ...
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Oman Daily Observer
'SD IS a threat to SADC peace'
Times of Swaziland
He said there was a huge concern that the current Troika chair, South Africa, a few months ago sought a unilateral economic intervention in Swaziland designed to facilitate political reforms but was, ostensibly, initially snubbed by Swazi authorities. ...
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Times of Swaziland
Nobbs to pick best 18 players for Oly qualifier from SA series
Zee News
South Africa team`s head coach Gregg Clark also agreed with his skipper and said the series would be a great opportunity for him to test his bench strength. "We are taking the series very seriously. We still need to qualify for the Olympics and it will ...
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Zee News
Q&A: Museum Readies Itself For MLK Jr. Celebration
NBC Los Angeles
NBC LA recently talked to Charmaine Jefferson, executive director of the California African American Museum, about its plans for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and how King's legacy is best celebrated. By Ashley Gordon Starting Sunday, ...
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SA private schooling cheaper than UK, US
Times LIVE
SOUTH Africa's private school fees are still the cheapest when compared with those paid in the UK, Australia and the US. Fees at some exclusive British institutions are almost double that of SA's equivalents. To attend SA' s most expensive private ...
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Times LIVE
B'lore kids are enthu about football: Coach
Times of India
"What struck me about the kids here is their huge enthusiasm, their eagerness to learn," he told STOI Nijkamp, who will train children at the Ozonegroup Football Academy here, has worked in South Africa, the Middle East, Japan and China in such ...
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No deal on Nigeria strike
Fin24
Nigeria is the largest oil exporter in western Africa and the eighth biggest in the world. While it is a major supplier of raw crude to the West, the country lacks enough refineries and must import much of its petrol for commercial and domestic use ...
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School for the brainy is a really dumb idea: iLIVE
Times LIVE
Lethola Mokakala, Newcastle 'BEYOND the centenary" (January 8) byS'thembiso Msomi, commenting on the ANC clinging to its track record as liberation movement and not showing any vision as to how the future SouthAfrica should look, was outstanding. ...
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Apollo Tyres fined Rs30 cr in S Africa
Indian Express
Apollo Tyres has been been asked to cough up 45 million rands (about Rs 30 crore) as penalty for indulging in cartelisation in SouthAfrica, a dispute which the company said relates to period when the firm was managed by Dunlop. ...
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Indian Express
Paul Moriarty backing Joel Hodgson to shine
Sunday Sun
New director of rugby Gary Gold does not arrive from South Africa until Tuesday, with Moriarty picking a youthful attacking line-up in a competition where chances of quarter-final progress are limited. Most notable among the 10 changes is the inclusion ...
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S.Africa deploying more rangers against poachers | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
South Africa is hiring 150 more rangers to try to stop rhinoceros poaching in its flagship Kruger National Park. Environment minister Edna Molewa made the announcement Sunday. There are already 500 rangers on duty at Kruger.
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South Africa U-19 v Zimbabwe U-19: Shaylin Pillay stars in South ...
Match report of South Africa U-19 v Zimbabwe U-19, tri-series, Cape Town fromSouth Africa. ... An all-round performance from Shaylin Pillay consigned Zimbabwe Under-19s to their third straight defeat in the tri-nation tournament inSouth AfricaSouth ...
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MP Zitto mourns youthful MP`s death - In2EastAfrica - East African ...
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Amla, Duminy steer South Africa to victory | Pakistan Today | Latest ...
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AfricaNews - Sudan blocks S. Sudan crude oil exportation - The ...
Sudan has been accused by South Sudan of blocking crude oil from being exported. "Khartoum authority has prevented two ships from leaving the port carrying ...
www.africanews.com/site/Sudan_blocks_S...oil.../40838
Capital News » S.Africa's liberation struggle shook entire region
LUSAKA, Jan 6 – As the African National Congress fetes its 100th birthday this weekend, tribute will also be paid to neighbouring nations who lost blood and ...
www.capitalfm.co.ke/.../s-africas-liberation-struggle-shook-ent...
Mandela's political party turns 100 in S. Africa - CBS News
Joy and criticism of promises unfulfilled accompanies the ANC's centennial celebration in South Africa.
www.cbsnews.com/.../mandelas-political-party-turns-100-in-s-...
First class graduates from Oprah's S.Africa school | Top News ...
HENLEY ON KLIP, South Africa (Reuters) - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey proudly saw the first class of girls from disadvantaged backgrounds graduate on ...
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE80D05E20120114
BBC News - Problems for South Africa's ANC as it marks 100 years
As South Africa's governing African National Congress marks its centenary, the party that ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16447772
South Africa News: ANC celebrates 100th birthday | GlobalPost
South Africa News: ANC celebrates 100th birthday. Lavish parties criticized. Some say ANC's record is mixed since coming to power. South Africa's African ...
www.globalpost.com/.../south-africa-anc-celebrates-100th-birt...
Desperate for education: S. Africa stampede kills 1 - World news ...
One person was killed and nearly 20 injured in a stampede Tuesday by students trying to register at the University of Johannesburg, reflecting desperate ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../desperate-education-stampede-south-...
SABC News.com - S.Africa faces big downside risk from Europe ...
The euro zone crisis could hurt South Africa's economy and the country should maintain a supportive monetary policy.
www.sabc.co.za/.../S.Africa-faces-big-downside-risk-from-Eur...
S. Africa, Cuba Formalize Defense Cooperation - Defense News
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa and Cuba signed a memorandum Jan. 10 to put a stamp on the cooperation between the two country's armies, a spokesman ...
www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=8805326&c=AME...
S.Africa's rand may test 8.00 against dollar [50179060] | African ...
African news, analysis and opinion – The Africa Report.com ...JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's firmed slightly against the dollar on Friday and ...
www.theafricareport.com/.../s.africa-s-rand-may-test-8.00-agai...
Fish and chip fever batters South Africa | World news | guardian.co.uk
South Africans are discovering the joys of the British-style chippy, although the dish has some history in their country.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/.../fish-and-chips-south-afric...
University stampede kills one in S. Africa - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: A stampede broke out as thousands tried to enrol at a Johannesburg university Tuesday, killing one woman and injuring at least 22 people, ...
news.yahoo.com/university-stampede-kills-one-africa-report-1...
UNSC adopts S.Africa-Pak resolution on boosting - Associated ...
Associated Press of Pakistan Corporation, Pakistan's premier NEWS agency.... UNSC adopts S.Africa-Pak resolution on boosting ties with AU in conflict ...
app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content...
  
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