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Theron to help build soccer fields in South Africa
Cape Town :: South Africa | less than a minute ago
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Hollywood actress Charlize Theron is helping build soccer fields in her native South Africa in honour of the upcoming World Cup. The soccer tournament will be hosted by the country next year and Theron's Africa Outreach charity is raising cash to build...
Tags: build soccer, soccer fields, Africa Outreach, world cup, South Africa, Cape Town, FIFA World Cup, Charlize Theron, allnews, Human Interest
Dubai crisis rattles rand
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 44 minutes ago
Credibility South Africa's rand fell more than 2 percent against the dollar on Thursday, reversing the previous day's strong gains as the greenback recovered broadly, helped by a downturn in appetite for risky assets. The local bourse ended lower, tracking weaker...
Tags: Dubai World, Johannesburg, ve seen, South Africa, Futures contract, United States dollar, Business Finance, Dubai, South African rand
ZIMBABWE: Children who never existed
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 hour ago
Credibility The settlement has two self-appointed "midwives", who sometimes err in helping pregnant women, resulting in deaths. "People on this farm don't know how to use contraceptives, and there are so many pregnancies that the women take care of," Campion said.
Tags: UNICEF Zimbabwe, IRIN, South Africa, Johannesburg, UNICEF, Social Issues, Zimbabwe
29 000 teachers unregistered
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 hour ago
Credibility There were just under 5 000 foreign teachers registered and 30 000 teachers provisionally registered. Brijraj said the council had received 73 complaints about teachers since April this year. Sixty were found guilty of various misdemeanours and six teachers...
Tags: Rej Brijraj, South Africa, Johannesburg, Sasurie College of Engineering, Education, Teacher, Teaching
S African farmers dismayed by Zimbabwe deal
Harare :: Zimbabwe | about 1 hour ago
Credibility The agreement, ten years in the making, is highly contentious because it fails to offer any hope of redress to hundreds of South African farmers whose land was expropriated by President Robert Mugabe’s government under its infamous land reform programme.
Tags: Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union, South Africa, south african, foreign investor, african farmers, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, Harare, Environment, Morgan Tsvangirai, Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwean presidential election, Politics, Anti-communism, Zimbabwean political negotiations, Arthur Mutambara
AfDB loans SAfrica's Eskom $2.8 bln for Medupi plant
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 1 hour ago
Credibility The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday it had loaned South African state owned utility Eskom 1.86 billion euros ($2.81 billion) to finance the construction of the Medupi power project. The bank said the 4,800 megawatt Medupi power plant...
Tags: South Africa, African Development Bank, Medupi, Eskom, Cape Town, Environment, Medupi Power Station, Donald Kaberuka
S Africa: Israeli policies reminiscent of the apartheid
Brussels :: Belgium | about 2 hours ago
Credibility South Africa slams Israel over plans to authorize construction of new settlements drawing parallels between Tel Aviv's practices toward Palestinians and the 'forced removals' of the apartheid era. "We condemn the fact that Israeli settlement expansion...
Tags: Israeli, East Jerusalem Al-Quds, South Africa, Palestinians, Belgium, Brussels, Judaization of Jerusalem, Gilo, Politics, Israel and the apartheid analogy, Israel, Israeli settlement, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, War Conflict
Whistleblower off to court
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 2 hours ago
Credibility A Limpopo municipal employee will go the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Friday after he was embroiled in revelations that a fellow employee allegedly stole municipal airtime to win a competition for a BMW...He wrote to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan...
Tags: ODAC, South Africa, Johannesburg, Vodacom, Limpopo, Pravin Gordhan, Oliver Tambo, Provinces of South Africa, BMW, Labor, Law Crime, Sekhukhune
ID suicide: Joy over house
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 2 hours ago
Credibility There were scenes of joy in Molweni outside Hillcrest on Thursday when the government handed over a house to the family of Sikhumbuzo Mhlongo, who committed suicide after being refused an identity document. "We are very happy and this brings tears because...
Tags: Sikhumbuzo Mhlongo, Mhlongos, Zandile Mhlongo, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, identity document, Buti Manamela, committing suicide, Moses Phiri, social development, South Africa, Cape Town, House of Dlamini, Zuma, Social Issues, Alumni of the University of Bristol, Zulu people
O'Driscoll fears Springbok backlash
Springbok :: South Africa | about 2 hours ago
Credibility Brian O'Driscoll has scoffed at suggestions South Africa are a team in decline as Ireland target the prized scalp of the world champions at Croke Park on Saturday. The Springboks' outstanding season is in danger of ending with a whimper having slumped...
Tags: South Africans, Springboks, South Africa, Springbok, White South Africans, South Africa national rugby union team, Brian O'Driscoll, allnews
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