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AFRICA News, Jun 09, 2013

S Africa hopes for Mandela recovery
Irish Independent
South Africans have said their thoughts are with former president Nelson Mandela, who remains in a "serious but stable" condition after being taken to hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection.
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S. Africa's Labor Minister to Hold Talks After Lonmin Deaths (1)
Businessweek
South African Labor Minister Mildred Oliphant will extend talks with unions in a bid to stem violence that has seen two organizers from rival groups shot dead in the world's largest platinum-producing area within a month. Oliphant met union leaders ...
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S.Africa seek redemption after India loss
New York Daily News
South Africa face a tough task to put their Champions Trophy campaign back on track after being laid low by injuries and a demoralising defeat to India. The Proteas hopes of winning the tournament slipped when they crashed by 26 runs against Mahendra ...
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S Africa Union Says Strike at Lonmin Possible
Wall Street Journal
JOHANNESBURG--Members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union voted this week to go on strike at platinum producer Lonmin Plc (LNMIY), but union bosses said Thursday they are trying to stave off more unrest. "Workers voted for a ...
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S.Africa banker calls for strong leadership
AFP
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's central bank governor called Thursday for strong government leadership to steer Africa's largest economy from a prolonged growth slump. "Much more important than the precise elements of a strategy is for government to ...
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S. Africa Business Confidence Falls as Strikes Cut Output
Bloomberg
South African business confidence slumped as strikes in the mining industry curbed output in Africa'sbiggest economy, two separate reports show. The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry's business confidence index fell to 90.4 last month ...
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S.African union leader shot dead at Lonmin
Herald Sun
A UNION leader has been shot dead and another wounded at a Lonmin platinum mine in South Africa, the company and union officials say, amid heightened tensions after deadly strikes at the mine last year. The local shaft leader "was killed in front of ...
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Benni's Achievements
Soccer-Laduma
This morning it was announced that South Africa's most successful player overseas, Benni McCarthy, has announced his retirement. Bafana Bafana's top goal scorer of all-time, with 31 goals in 80 games, has left a lasting impressing on every club with ...
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S Africa, Scotland, Samoa in RWC warm-up
Brisbane Times
The Springboks, Scotland and Samoa get to feel each other out in a Rugby World Cup preview over two years before the main event, with Italy joining in for a three-week, four-nation tournament in South Africastarting on Saturday. With Scotland's squad ...
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S. African Yellow Corn Falls Most in 4 Weeks on Technical Signal
Bloomberg
South African yellow corn futures declined the most in four weeks on speculation that an increase to a more than five-month high was overdone. Yellow corn for delivery in July, the most active contract, fell 2.5 percent to 2,290.80 rand ($230) a metric ...
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Marcus Stresses S. Africa Price Stability Task as GDP Slumps (1)
Businessweek
South African central bank Governor Gill Marcus said policy makers' core mandate is to control inflation even as economic growth forecasts are set to be lowered because of mining strikes. “If you have higher inflation, you're going to have higher ...
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S. Africa civil organization urges US to release Cuban political prisoners
Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The Friends of Cuba Solidarity on Wednesday staged a protest outside the U. S. Embassy in Pretoria to press for the release of four Cuban political prisoners being incarcerated in American jails. The protest was staged ...
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Familiar foes for coach Kirsten as S.Africa face India
New York Daily News
Gary Kirsten begins his final stint as South Africa's coach against former team India in the Champions Trophy opener in Cardiff on Thursday. The last time the two teams played a one-day international, during the 2011 World Cup, Kirsten was on the other ...
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Katy church invites African Children's Choir to lead summer music camp
Houston Chronicle
Memorial Lutheran Church of Katy plans to take summer campers to a whole different continent - through the power of music. From June 10-14, members of the African Children's Choir will take over - teaching singing, dancing and drumming techniques from ...
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S. Africa to set up anti-corruption bureau
Xinhua
CAPE TOWN, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Faced with growing corruption in the public sector, the South Africangovernment has proposed to set up an anti-corruption bureau to curb the scourge. The proposal to set up the bureau is contained in the Public ...
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S.Africa's Zuma urges dialogue after mine shooting
Khaleej Times
The industry, which brings in around 60 percent of export earnings and accounts for a fifth of Africa'slargest economy, has seen a rash of wildcat strikes sparked by wage demands and union rivalries. SouthAfrican President Jacob Zuma delivers a ...
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S Africa migrants battle rising persecution
Aljazeera.com
The video that emerged on YouTube last weekend of a Somali man lying flat in a Port Elizabeth street has shocked many South Africans out of a general complacence over the rising incidence of violence against foreigners in the country. The man, who was ...
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S. Africa Corn Gains Most in 5 Weeks as Exports Spur Stock Worry
Businessweek
South African corn rose the most in more than five weeks after export figures showed the country shipped the most yellow corn in more than two years, raising concern that stocks are insufficient. The yellow variety for delivery in July, the most active ...
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REFILE-S.Africa's Adcock H1 profit lower as weak rand bites
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, June 4 (Reuters) - South Africa's second-largest drug firm, Adcock Ingram, reported a 5 percent decline in first-half profit on Tuesday, hit by the weaker rand and as debt-laden consumers opted for cheaper medicines. Adcock, which is ...
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S.Africa's stocks down, turn focus on US job data
Reuters
Retail sales have been slowing down as banks tighten unsecured loans to overextended South Africans. The uncollateralised loans have helped prop Africa's biggest economy, which is struggling to keep growing as its key European export market shrinks.
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S.African Airways to spend up to $7 bln for long haul aircraft
Reuters
CAPE TOWN, June 3 (Reuters) - South Africa's national airline plans to spend between $4 billion to $7 billion for 25-30 long-haul aircraft and has mostly been looking at the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, a senior official said on Monday. State-owned ...
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S.Africa prosectors reject plea in brutal teen mutilation
New Straits Times
CAPE TOWN: South African prosecutors said Wednesday they had rejected a suspect's guilty plea for raping a teenager after he refused to admit to her gruesome mutilation and murder. Anene Booysen, 17, died in February after she was found on a ...
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S.Africa's Mandela in 'serious but stable' condition in hospital
Khaleej Times
Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a “serious but stable” condition after being taken to hospital early on Saturday with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said.
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Japan, S. Africa to seek stronger economic ties
GlobalPost
Japan and South Africa agreed Tuesday to expand relations in the areas of trade and investment, and also discussed Japan's ambition to build atomic power plants in the African economic power once a nuclear safety accord is completed, the Japanese ...
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S. Africa Woes Push Up Platinum
TheStreet.com
... or Chrome) to add TheStreetTV's video to your playlist. Sign in. Transcript Statistics Report. Published on Jun 5, 2013. Will Rhind, managing director of ETF Securities, discusses the Indian Reserve Bank's impact on gold and strike season in South ...
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In S Africa, toilet talk turns political
3News NZ
This week, protesters tossed human excrement at a convoy carrying the leader of South Africa's main opposition party, who seeks to court followers of the ruling African National Congress ahead of national elections next year. Tuesday's unsavoury salvo ...
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S.African union leader 'shot dead at Lonmin platinum mine'
Africa Review
A unionist has been killed and another wounded at a Lonmin-owned platinum mine in South Africa, police say, amid tension between rival trade unions. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said the shooting happened near the town of Marikana, 120 ...
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S/Africans express worry over Mandela's health
Nigerian Tribune
FORMER South African President, Nelson Mandela is in “serious but stable” condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a lung infection, the government said Saturday, prompting an outpouring of concern from admirers of a man who helped ...
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S Africa mulls peacekeepers for mines
Aljazeera.com
... Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add AlJazeeraEnglish's video to your playlist. Sign in. Statistics Report. Published on Jun 7, 2013. There have been calls for peacekeeping forces to be deployed in SouthAfrica's mines - to prevent more violence during ...
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Ranbaxy drugs are 'safe and efficacious': S African regulator
IBNLive
Johannesburg: Generic drugs distributed in South Africa by Indian pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy are "safe" and "efficacious", the country's regulator body said today, days after the beleaguered drug maker paid a fine of USD 500 million in the US for ...
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S.Africa Treasury says appoints managers for foreign loan
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Reuters) - South Africa's Treasury has appointed Standard Bank, Deutsche Bank and Rand Merchant Bank as joint-lead managers and Investec as co-lead manager for the issuance of a foreign currency loan, it said on Wednesday ...
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India v South Africa, Champions Trophy, Group B, Cardiff Report ...
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South Africa could see widespread 40Mbit/s ... - IT News Africa
By Charlie Fripp
South Africa could see the widespread roll-out of 40Mbit/s internet connections for only R329 a month – ifSouth Africa's Independent Communications.
IT News Africa news alert
Africa News Round Up June, Monday 03, 2013 | Uganda Talks
By Administrator
Africa News Round Up June, Monday 03, 2013. Posted on June 3, 2013 by Administrator. In South Africaa unionist was today June 3, killed and another wounded at a Lonmin-owned platinum mine in South Africa, police say, amid tension ...
Uganda Talks
United Nations in South Africa » News Archive » UNAIDS to ...
By webintern
3 June 2013 | News. GENEVA —The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibé today announced the appointment of South African scientist, Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim as Chair of ...
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End Lion Slaughter in South Africa ! PLEASE SIGN ! ! - Care2 News ...
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Put an end to lions being raised in captivity as “canned” hunting targets.
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There are currently more than 160 farms in South Africa that raise lions in captivity for the sole purpose of using them as targets for hunters. Many are also sold to Asian markets where parts of them are used in traditional medicine.
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'Madiba is a fighter': South Africa prays as ailing ... - World News
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa and millions around the world on Sunday waited for news of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela after he was rushed to the ...
worldnews.nbcnews.com/_.../18859828-madiba-is-a-fighter-s...
News: South Africa's President Zuma abandons all his outstanding ...
Jacob Zuma On Friday 31 May 2013 the spokesman for the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, announced that the President had “elected to withdraw” his ...
inforrm.wordpress.com/.../news-south-africas-president-zuma-...
Lonmin Shares, ZAR Slide Following Deja Vu News Of Two South ...
Don't look now but Lonmin shares are pulling a "summer of 2012", following news from the South Africanpolice that two people have been shot at a Lonmin ...
www.zerohedge.com/.../lonmin-shares-zar-slide-following-dej...
South Africa will stand with Mandela legacy CCTV News - CNTV ...
Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela can be ill but his legacy will last forever. This is a strong view of manySouth Africans.
english.cntv.cn/20130609/100612.shtml
South African News - Nokia Rewards
Pakistani man's assault: Suspects appear. 2013/06/01 10:27:01 PM. Three men accused of robbing and assaulting a Pakistani national have appeared in the ...
www.nokiarewards.com/.../index.do?ix=27730
Complete News - Raw: Oscar Pistorius Back in South Africa Court ...
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South Africa: Nelson Mandela in 'serious' condition in hospital
Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a 'serious but stable' condition on Saturday after being taken to hospital with a ...
ibnlive.in.com/news/south-africa-nelson.../397370-2.html
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