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South Africa's assembly passes 'secrecy bill,' stirring journalists' fears
Seeded on Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:31 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
South Africa’s National Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday that would “protect” state information and potentially impose 25-year criminal sentences on journalists who publish or possess state documents that the South African government deems to be secret. The …
SAfrican woman set ablaze in satanic ritual dies
Seeded on Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:24 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Police say an 18-year-old woman set ablaze in a suspected satanic ritual has died.
Travel Destination of the Day..Cape Town, South Africa
Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:23 PM EDT ()
Chic and exciting, historic and endearing… Cape Town can be seen in just three days, (but should be enjoyed for many days longer.) DC's "Snowpocolypse 2011" had us stranded in a taxi for nine hours (with the meter running) instead of flying over the Atlantic Ocean, leavi …
Was South Africa right to deny Dalai Lama a visa?
Seeded on Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:00 PM EDT (Reuters)
Tibet’s spiritual leader will end up missing the 80th birthday party of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a fellow Nobel peace prize winner. Desmond Tutu said the government’s action was a national disgrace and warned the President and ruling party that one day he will st …
Four Found Guilty of Murdering Lesbian in Five-Year-Old 'Corrective Rape' Case
Seeded on Sat Oct 8, 2011 5:59 PM EDT (Google)
Four men were convicted on Friday of murdering a lesbian in Cape Town, in a case that dragged on for five years and heightened concerns about "corrective rape" targeting gay women. The four men stoned, kicked and stabbed to death 19-year-old Zoliswa Nkonyana just metres (yards …
SAfrica: Black farmers sell farms back to whites
Seeded on Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:07 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)
South Africa's minister of land reform says black farmers have resold nearly 30 percent of the white farmland bought for them by the government -- often back to the previous white owners.
"Born free" South Africans confront brutal history
Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:59 PM EDT
As she began a tour on Friday to learn about the brutality of apartheid, 17-year-old Boipelo Ndaba was skeptical that anything good would come of learning about that dark chapter of South Africa's past that she's too young to have experienced herself.
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More than 15,000 march for education in S. Africa
Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:14 PM EDT
More than 15,000 are marching in South Africa's western city of Cape Town to demand libraries, computers labs and other resources for township schools, many of which are vastly under-resourced.
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Humans came from southern Africa - maybe
Seeded on Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:06 PM EDT (newscientist.com)
If reports this week are to be believed, the entire anatomically modern human population descends from ancestors who lived in southern Africa.
SKA, MeerKAT offer technological spin-offs
Seeded on Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:34 PM EDT (businessday.co.za)
LESS apparent in SA's Square Kilometre Array (SKA) bid and the MeerKAT project are technological innovations that are likely to change the way people live.
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