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May 20, 2013

AFRICA News, May 20, 2013

Ritual circumcision kills 23 males in South Africa

Republica
Ritual circumcision is common among South Africa´s ethnic Xhosa, Sotho and Ndebele ethnic groups. Deaths at so-called initiation schools in South Africa are common, with several hundred cases recorded in recent years due to bleeding and infections.
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Heineken aims to whet African women's appetite for beer - Bayoubuzz.com

Bayoubuzz
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A thirst for beer among Africa 's middle classes is driving the world's biggest brewers to invest on the continent, but getting women to drink the beverage is another matter. One brewer, Heineken , is attempting to woo the ...
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Coming to Newton: The African Children's Choir

Leavenworth Times
Donations go to the expansion of sponsorship and education programs for both the current Choir children and thousands of other children they represent. The African Children?s Choir is made up of some of the neediest and most vulnerable children in Africa.
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'Britain's Obama' urges ties with West Africa

Timesonline.com
Umunna has also been criticized in the press for editing his own Wikipedia page to include references to "the U.K.'s Barack Obama," something his office has said he has no recollection of doing. Prime Minister David Cameron made light of the story on ...
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S.Africa's ANC youth blast Tutu

GlobalPost
South Africa's ruling ANC youth wing hit out at former archbishop Desmond Tutu on Monday, after the Nobel Prize winner said he would not vote for the party at the next elections. The ANC Youth League said Tutu must make remarks "anchored by reality and ...
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UPDATE 4-Lonmin's S.African platinum workers end strike

Reuters
Union tensions rooted in war for membership. * Unrest could threaten S.Africa credit rating. * Mass meeting of workers due on Thursday. By Ed Stoddard. MARIKANA, South Africa, May 15 (Reuters) - Workers at Lonmin's South African platinum shafts were ...
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The Soil to play on Botswana soil

Mmegi Online
Arts & Culture. The Soil to play on Botswana soil. KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG Correspondent. Tweet. Word reaching Showbiz is that South Africa (SA)'s most loved acapella group 'The Soil' will be performing here on the June 7th at Ditshupo Hall.
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S. African union calls for end to Lonmin strike - GlobalPost

GlobalPost
Union leaders at South Africa's Lonmin platinum mine on Wednesday called on workers to end an illegal strike sparked by the shooting death of a union leader last weekend. "Workers, I say to you let us go back to work," Joseph Mathunjwa, head of the ...
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BG Takes Lead From Tullow's African Success Off Brazil Coast

Bloomberg
(Corrects company name in penultimate paragraph.) BG Group Plc (BG/), the U.K.'s third-largest energy producer, is stepping up exploration off Brazil as part of a plan to add as much as 1 billion barrels of global resources a year. BG agreed to pay ...
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Diaspora groups as development actors: levelling the playing field

The Guardian (blog)
The US global diaspora forum, the UK diaspora volunteering scheme , the African diaspora programme at the World Bank and the African Union's diaspora strategy , as well as those of the Sengalese and Rwandan governments, indicate a growing global ...
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S.African doctor returns home after UAE detention

AFP
CAPE TOWN — A South African doctor arrived home on Friday nine months after he was detained in the United Arab Emirates over the death of a cancer patient he treated more than a decade ago. Cyril Karabus, a paediatric oncologist, was detained last ...
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S.Africa officials 'used Zuma name in wedding jet scandal'

AFP
S.Africa officials 'used Zuma name in wedding jet scandal'. By Susan Njanji (AFP) – 4 minutes ago. PRETORIA — South African officials used President Jacob Zuma's name to secure landing rights at a military air base to fly in guests for a lavish ...
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Symantec Corp.'s Internet Security Pegs Cyber Fraud At 42% In Africa

spyghana.com
s Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18 (ISTR) released yesterday, May 13, 2013, has revealed a 42 percent surge in cyber fraud during 2012 in targeted attacks compared to the prior year. The report, which lists top 30 countries in Africa in terms ...
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S. African Soybeans Gain to Four-Week High as US Price Climbs

Businessweek
South African soybean futures advanced to a four-week high after prices in the U.S., the world's biggest producer, rose after a bulk purchase by China, the largest soybean importer. Soybeans for delivery in July, the most active contract, surged 1.1 ...
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S Africa consumers reluctant to take brake off spending

Financial Times (blog)
After the retail sales data were released, Capital Economics said its South Africa GDP Tracker suggested the country's economy picked up a little pace in the first quarter. Annualised GDP growth accelerated to around 2.4 per cent from 2.1 per cent in ...
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S. Africa's Rand Gains 1st Day in Three on Bets Retreat Overdone

Businessweek
The rand gained for the first time in three days as investors gauged the South African currency's retreat to a two-week low was overdone. The rand depreciated 2.4 percent last week and 1.1 percent on May 10 after planned job cuts by the nation's ...
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UPDATE 3-Union to strike at S.Africa's Amplats, rand drops

Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, May 16 (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum will strike from Thursday evening over proposed job cuts, a union official said, driving its shares lower and sending the rand to a four-year low. "The night shift today ...
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S. Africa: Thieves stage heist after Bieber concert

Boston Herald
South African media reported Tuesday that criminals climbed down a ladder and lowered themselves on ropes to enter a locked room where funds collected from concession stands at the concerts. The theft happened at Soccer City, a showcase stadium used ...
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S. Africa Police to Block Abandoned Shafts to End Illegal Mining

Businessweek
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known as The Hawks, is working with the South AfricanChamber of Mines to shut more than 10 shafts at the closed Durban Deep mine, 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of Johannesburg, where people have been ...
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Over 20 S.African boys die in circumcision rituals: police

Yahoo! News
Northern Mpumalanga province's police department has opened 22 murder cases but no arrests have been made so far, spokesman Colonel Leonard Hlathi said. Every year in South Africa, boys aged 10 to 15 years from several of the country's tribal groups ...
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S. Africa Retail Sales Slow in March on Inflation, Jobless Rate

Businessweek
Retail sales rose 2.8 percent from a revised 3.9 percent in February, Pretoria-based Statistics SouthAfrica said on its website today. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 16 economists was 2.4 percent. Sales decreased 0.9 percent from a month ...
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REFILE-S.Africa's Bidvest offers to buy out Mvelaserve in $67 mln deal

Reuters
JOHANNESBURG May 13 (Reuters) - South African conglomerate Bidvest Group said on Monday it would offer to buy out minority shareholders of outsourcing firm Mvelaserve in a $67 million cash deal. Bidvest, which currently owns just under 35 percent of ...
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Dale Steyn says India`s Champions Trophy squad is a strong one

Zee News
Dale Steyn says India`s Champions Trophy squad is a strong one Mumbai: India might have left out seasoned campaigners Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir from their ICC Champions Trophy squad, but South African speedster Dale ...
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ICC approves Petersen`s name as Smith`s replacement in CT - Zee News - India

Zee News
ICC approves Petersen`s name as Smith`s replacement in CT Dubai: The ICC`s event technical committee has approved the name of opener Alviro Petersen as Graeme Smith`s replacement in the South Africa squad for the upcoming Champions Trophy in ...
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S.Africa platinum miners strike after unionist killed

AFP
S.Africa platinum miners strike after unionist killed. By Sibongile Khumalo (AFP) – 3 days ago. MARIKANA, South Africa — Thousands of mine workers downed tools on Tuesday at South Africa'sLonmin mine after a union leader was shot dead in the restive ...
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South African Wine Exports Setting Records on US, China Demand

Businessweek
Wine exports rose to 469 million liters (124 million U.S. gallons) in the year ending April 30, up 25 percent from the previous 12 months and more than triple the total shipped in 2000, data from the Wines of SouthAfrica trade body, or WOSA, show.
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South African ANC Treasurer Wants Donations Kept Secret

Bloomberg
The ANC's dominance of the government in Africa's biggest economy since it took power in the first post-apartheid vote in 1994 has secured it the lion's share of corporate sponsorship, public disclosures by companies show. Groups including the Congress ...
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S. African Corn Falls as Drier Weather May Improve US Planting

Bloomberg
Corn declined on the South African Futures Exchange by the midday close, tracking prices of the grain in the U.S., which fell on speculation that plantings will increase with drier weather. White corn for delivery in July, the most active contract ...
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The cost of no sweatshops: S. Africa struggles not to be Bangladesh

Reuters
NEWCASTLE, South Africa May 16 (Reuters) - It's not luxurious, but Goldfinch Garments, the Chinese-owned South African factory where Sindisizwe Zwane works nine hours a day, is far from a sweatshop: the ventilation is decent, the lighting is good and ...
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S.Africa minister accuses Indian High Commission official in Gupta scandal

Reuters India
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President Jacob Zuma to use an air ...
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Nigeria's UBA Sees Up to 40% Loan Growth for Oil, Power Projects

Bloomberg
United Bank for Africa Plc, Nigeria's fifth-largest lender by market value, plans to increase loans by as much as 40 percent this year to fund oil, power and manufacturing projects. “We have some deals in the power sector,” besides investments in “oil ...
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S. Africa Approves $1.3 Billion Water Project, Business Day Says

Bloomberg
The expansion will supply an extra 45.5 cubic meters (1,600 cubic feet) of water a second to South Africa, from 24.6 cubic meters now, and generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity for Lesotho, the newspaper cited the ministry as saying. The project is ...
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