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S. Africa: 2 past presidents suffering medically
Muscatine Journal
Nelson Mandela on Tuesday spent his 25th day in the hospital, while officials announced that that F.W. de Klerk will be fitted with a pacemaker. De Klerk is the last leader of South Africa's apartheid era. He and Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Obama: S. Africa shows how people can change world
Fremont Tribune
Obama S. Africa shows how people can change world. » 2013-06-30T11:44:11Z 2013-06-30T12:20:02Z Obama: S. Africa shows how people can change worldThe Associated Press The Associated Press. 39 minutes ago • Associated Press. (0) Comments.
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S.Africa presidency urges Mandelas to heal family feud
Fox News
DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) – South Africa's presidency urged Nelson Mandela's family Friday to solve an increasingly bitter dispute "amicably", weighing in for the first time on a feud over the ailing anti-apartheid icon's final resting place. "It is ...
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S. Africans in preparation for Mandela Day
Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, July 1 (Xinhua) -- South Africans are make preparations for the Nelson Mandela International Day, which falls on July 18. The Mandela Day is celebrated internationally every year in honor of the anti-apartheid icon. The ailing former ...
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Biggest S. Africa Platinum Union Refuses to Sign Mines Pact (1)
Businessweek
The biggest union at the world's three largest platinum mines refused to sign an agreement that seeks to bring stability to the mining industry in South Africa, which has been plagued by strikes and violence. The Association of Mineworkers and ...
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Former S. African President FW de Klerk to get pacemaker as Mandela enters ...
CBS News
JOHANNESBURGF.W. de Klerk, the last leader of South Africa's apartheid era and a co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, has suffered dizziness and will be fitted with a pacemaker to help his heart function, a foundation said ...
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S. Africa get World Cup lifeline as Ethiopia lose points
Fox News
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa returned Monday to the race for places at the 2014 World Cup after Ethiopia forfeited three points for fielding an ineligible player. A FIFA statement said Botswana, who lost at home to Ethiopia during June, had been ...
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S. Africa's Jewish community offers prayers for Mandela
Jerusalem Post
“Makaziwe specifically said that I should convey to the Jewish community that her father cherishes the special and warm relationship he has had with South African Jews throughout his life,” the chief rabbi wrote in a message to the community on Friday.
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S African court orders exhumation
The Australian
The order was issued in response to a request by more than a dozen relatives of the revered leader, who led the struggle against white-minority rule in South Africa and won election as the country's first black president in 1994 after spending 27 years ...
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S'Africans pray for Mandela's recovery, Obama humbled by prison visit
The Guardian Nigeria
As the prayer service was being held, hundreds of kilometres elsewhere in South Africa, President Barack Obama was “deeply humbled” by a visit to the cell where the first black President of the country spent years as a prisoner, in a solemn homage ...
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S. Africa Corn Exports May Pose Threat to Staple Food, BVG Says
Businessweek
South Africa, the continent's largest producer of corn, may run out of the yellow variety if exports of the grain rise further, pushing up the cost of white corn, one of the nation's staple foods, BVG (Pty) Ltd. said. The nation shipped 79,055 metric ...
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S. Africa Releases First Grain Supply-Demand Estimates
Bloomberg
South Africa, the continent's largest corn producer, released its first grain supply and demand estimates to help smooth price swings and improve stocks information, a committee set up to collate the data said. The country will consume 9.55 million ...
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S. African wears yellow jersey for first time
Amarillo.com
Impey's father was a pro cyclist in South Africa, said his wife. She said Impey also used to train with Burry Stander, a two-time Olympic mountain biker killed Jan. 3 when he was hit by a minibus taxi while biking with his wife. Stander was the second ...
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Hit by poachers, S. Africa to lobby for rhino horn sale
Fox News
Environment minister Edna Molewa said the country will submit a proposal "to introduce regulated international trade in rhino horn" at the next meeting of the wildlife trade regulator CITES in South Africa in 2016. "South Africa cannot continue to be ...
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Glencore S. Africa Hiring Workers as Union Demands Reinstatement
Businessweek
Glencore Xstrata Plc (GLEN) expects to appoint new employees “shortly” at its South African chrome-mine operations as the union whose members were fired for taking part in a strike demands their reinstatement. “They won't reapply for their jobs,” ...
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S. African Corn Seen Gaining on Concern About Crop Production
Bloomberg
White corn for delivery in December, the most active contract, climbed 1.1 percent to 2,305 rand ($231) a metric ton by the close on the South African Futures Exchange. The yellow variety, for delivery in September, rose 0.8 percent to 2,235 rand a ton.
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S. African Jews bask in a sublime moment of unity
Jerusalem Post
Only a few days earlier on the other side of the world, deep in the heart of the Diaspora, another international conference was taking place, with similarly lofty ideals. This was South Africa's third annual Sinai Indaba - a unique event in terms of ...
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S.Africa Making Progress On Infrastructure Buildings
Bernama
PRETORIA, July 5 (BERNAMA-NNN-SAnews) -- South Africa is a major construction site, with about 1,132 individual, active construction sites creating employment for about 178, 000 people on projects monitored by the Presidential Infrastructure ...
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S.African police investigating Mandela grandson in grave dispute
CANOE
South African police opened an investigation on Tuesday into Nelson Mandela's grandson on suspicion of illegally exhuming the bodies of three of the ailing anti-apartheid hero's children, a police spokesman said. The investigation is the latest twist ...
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Somali envoy in S.Africa to discuss xenophobic attacks
Fox News
PRETORIA (AFP) – A Somali envoy on Tuesday met officials in Pretoria in a bid to ease tensions stirred by recurring attacks on Somali refugees in South Africa. Somalia's deputy foreign minister, Jamal Barrow, said his visit was also a fact-finding trip ...
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S. Africa Wants Desalination for Acid Water, Business Day Says
Bloomberg
South Africa wants desalination plants to be used to treat acid water from mines, with the cleaned liquid potentially supplying as much as 5 percent of the water needs of the Witwatersrand, the nation's industrial heartland, Business Day reported. This ...
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Key S. African union abstains from mining pact
Fox News
PRETORIA (AFP) – Worker unions and businesses signed a government-backed peace pact Wednesday to quell violence in South Africa's restive mine sector, but compromised with a key union abstaining. The different parties committed to "working together ...
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S.Africa's De Klerk hospitalised
Fox News
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa's last apartheid president FW de Klerk will be hospitalised to receive a pacemaker Tuesday, his spokesman said, as his fellow Nobel peace laureate Nelson Mandela lies critically ill. De Klerk cut short a visit to ...
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Dewani 'wishes' to fight charges in S Africa: UK court told
Business Standard
Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani, accused of arranging the murder of his wife while on honeymoon in South Africa, has expressed a wish to return to the country to fight the charges, a court here heard today. The 33-year-old is accused of ...
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S. Africa's De Klerk out of hospital
Fox News
CAPE TOWN (AFP) – South Africa's last apartheid president FW de Klerk was discharged from hospital on Wednesday following an operation to have a pacemaker fitted, paying tribute to his ailing successor Nelson Mandela's legacy of reconciliation. De ...
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Chris Martin stats analysis: Superb v South Africa, rubbish v ...
Chris Martin's favourite opponent was South Africa, against whom he had a better than Glenn McGrath did, but his Test bowling against Australia was more than 64 - Cricket news from from cricket in New Zealand.
Cricket news from ESPN Cricinfo.com
Inside Google's innovative African broadband trial — Tech News ...
By David Meyer
Google is involved in a groundbreaking trial of "white space" technology, taking place in Cape Town,South Africa. Just a few months in, it's already making a real difference for local schools.
GigaOM
Prepare for Mandela's 95th birthday, Zuma tells South Africans
By mbgolu
Prepare for Mandela's 95th birthday, Zuma tells South Africans. on July 01, 2013 / in News 5:06 pm / Comments. Nelson Mandela remained in a “critical but stable” condition Monday, the presidency said, more than three weeks after the ...
Vanguard News
S/Africa to withdraw staff from embassy in Egypt - Vanguard
By adekunle
Just as the South African government said it will immediately begin the withdrawal of all non-essential personal from its embassy in Cairo. ... Vanguard News - Latest updates from Nigeria, including business, politics, entertainment, fashion.
Vanguard News
South African golfers' scores go deep - Star Phoenix
South Africa put a deep dent into Dakota Dunes Golf Links as countrymen Jaco Ahlers and Doug McGuigan went scary low to climb atop the leaderboard at PGA Tour Canada's 2013 Dakota Dunes Open. Ahlers shot a 9-under 63, after a ...
The StarPhoenix - News
S.African court orders exhumation of Mandela family remains ...
By AFP
MTHATHA, July 3 – A South African court on Wednesday ordered that the remains of three of Nelson Mandela's children be immediately returned to his ancestral village, rejecting a bid by his oldest grandson to stop the exhumation following a ...
Capital News
S. Africa's Jewish community offers prayers for Mandela | World ...
By webmaster@jewishjournal.com
2013/07/01 - South Africa's chief rabbi, Warren Goldstein, conveyed the Jewish community's prayers and support to the daughter of ailing former President Nelson Mandela. - SAfrica's Jewish community offers prayers for Mandela.
Jewish Journal News and Blog Feed
Obama in South Africa: Political and Media Disconnect — BagNews
By Michael Shaw
If anything, we need to understand these protest images in SAfrica more in terms of current and similar photos from Brazil and Turkey. The public, in other words, is more sensitive these days to when they're being patronized.
BAGnewsNotes
South Africans hit back at Mugabe insults — Nehanda Radio
By admin
HARARE – South Africans reacted sharply to comments made by President Robert Mugabe during the launch of Zanu PF's election manifesto at Zimbabwe Grounds Friday. ... Nehanda Radio: Zimbabwe Newsand Internet Radio Station.
Nehanda Radio
Liquid Telecom partners with Ekinops on fibre ... - IT News Africa
By Staff Writer
The Herald reports that Liquid Telecom has partnered with Ekinops, a supplier of next generation optical transport equipment, in connection with a new long-haul Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing network across South Africa, Zambia ...
IT News Africa news alert

Mandela family feud: South Africa's shocking 'soap opera' | News ...
JOHANNESBURG - A grave-digging dispute has added to the bitter family feuding, over sex, money and power, among Nelson Mandela's heirs which has set ...
www.gmanetwork.com/.../mandela-family-feud-south-africa-s...
South African president says Mandela was 'asleep ... - Global News
South Africa - South Africa's president on Monday said a critically ill Nelson Mandela was "asleep" when he visited the 94-year-old at the hospital, and he urged ...
globalnews.ca/.../south-africa-says-mandela-remains-in-critical...
allAfrica.com: Lesotho: Quenching South Africa's Thirst
So, it is all good news, right? South Africa gets the water it needs; Lesotho gets the money it needs; and everyone is happy? Not quite. Political scientist Jo-Ansie  ...
allafrica.com/stories/201307020662.html
In South Africa, Obama pays tribute to ill Mandela - Africa news ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Paying tribute to his personal hero, President Barack Obama met privately Saturday with Nelson Mandela's family as the world ...
www.boston.com/news/world/africa/2013/.../story.html
Obama reflects on Mandela's legacy, South Africa's past / News ...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The hundreds of young South Africans had come to hear U.S. President Barack Obama talk about their future, but first he ...
www.ticotimes.net/.../Obama-reflects-on-Mandela-s-legacy-So...
South Africa says Mandela still "critical but stable" | News ...
South Africa's ailing anti-apartheid hero and former President Nelson Mandela remained in a "critical but stable" condition after nearly four weeks in hospital, the  ...
www.dailystar.com.lb/.../222555-south-africa-says-mandela-sti...
S Africa's De Klerk hospitalised - Channel News Asia
South Africa's last apartheid president FW de Klerk will be hospitalised to receive a pacemaker Tuesday, his spokesman said, as his fellow Nobel peace ...
www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/s...s.../731392.html
Obama paying tribute to Mandela in S. Africa | Inquirer News
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are greeted upon their arrival at Waterkloof Air Base, Friday, June 28, 2013, in Centurion, South Africa.
newsinfo.inquirer.net/.../obama-paying-tribute-to-mandela-in-...
Ailing Mandela: Sombre mood in S Africa | Video & TV News Clips ...
Ailing Mandela: Sombre mood in S Africa. Published - 27 June 2013. The sense of anticipation and foreboding about Nelson Mandela's fate has grown since ...
www.sbs.com.au/.../Ailing-Mandela-Sombre-mood-in-S-Afric...
South Africa: Mandela improved overnight - Chicago News and ...
Members of a South African choir have prayed and sung outside a hospital where Nelson Mandela, the country's former president, is reported to be in critical  ...
www.myfoxchicago.com/.../south-africans-sing-pray-for-man...
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