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Tag Archives: South Africa

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President Barack Obama to go on Africa tour in June

May 20, 2013 no comments
U.S. President Barack Obama is set to go on an Africa tour in June, reports have said. Obama will start his eight-day tour on June 26 and is set to visit three African nations – Senegal, South ...
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Nelson Mandela’s daughters sue him for millions

May 20, 2013 no comments
Nelson Mandela’s daughters are suing him for the rights to his artworks and control of his millions, says a report.   According to the Star newspaper on Monday, Zenani and Makaziwe Mandela...
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Mandela’s daughters driven by greed to secure companies’ c...

May 17, 2013 no comments
Nelson Mandela did not want his daughters Makaziwe and Zenani involved in the management of his money and artwork, his lawyer Bally Chuene said during proceedings in a High Court in Johannesburg. Law...
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At least 20 boys killed in archaic circumcision ritual

May 17, 2013 no comments
South Africa police on Thursday said at least 20 boys were killed in a coming of age circumcision ritual gone deadly. Reuters reported that police in the Northern Mpumalanga province opened 22 murder...
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Thieves steal Justin Bieber’s concert money in Jo’burg

May 15, 2013 no comments
South Africa police say thieves robbed the FNB stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday, making away with over $100,000 of Justin Bieber’s concert money after the American pop singer held a concert th...
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Will Mandela family reality show ruin icon’s reputation? South A...

April 28, 2013 no comments
A new reality television show, “Being Mandela,” which stars two of Nelson Mandela’s grandchildren, Swati Dlamini and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, has been widely criticised by many who b...
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“Virgin cleansing” – HIV positive father rapes 2-yea...

April 26, 2013 no comments
Here is some truly disturbing news. Police in Guateng are investigating a HIV positive father who allegedly raped his two-year-old daughter because he believed “sex with a virgin would cure him...
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Desmond Tutu admitted to Cape Town hospital

April 24, 2013 no comments
Euronews – South African Archbishop and peace campaigner Desmond Tutu is in a Cape Town hospital being treated for a persistent infection. A statement released by his charity, the Desmond and L...
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Africa’s first gay traditional wedding (video)

April 11, 2013 no comments
A gay couple, Tshepo Modisane and Thoba Sithol, made history this month in their small hometown in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, when they were joined together in holy matrimony in a first traditional...
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Nelson Mandela in good spirits – South Africa officials

March 29, 2013 no comments
South Africa officials have assured that Nelson Mandela, who is back in the hospital for a recurring lung infection, is in good spirits. The former president and icon was admitted on Wednesday night ...
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NAN – The Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in Northern Nigeria (amnesty committee) said on Thursday that it recommended the release of wives and children of suspected Boko Haram members to facili...

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British Police arrest two over attack at mosques

British Police have arrested two men over separate attacks at mosques, the UK Guardian reports. Police in Kent have now charged Andrew John Grindlay, 45, from Rochester, with religiously aggravated criminal damage and burglary. Also in Essex, authori...

British Police arrest two over attack at mosques
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Aid organization Doctors Without Borders has said it is suspending its emergency health care operations in Borno state, where troops have intensified their raids on Boko Haram insurgents in their biggest offensive. The organization announced that it ... Doctors without Borders shuts clinic in Borno

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Nigerian Muslim leaders in the UK have condemned the brutal attack of Brtish soldier Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, southeast London on Wednesday as “barbaric”. One of the two attackers, 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo, known to some as Muj...

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Two more suspects arrested over Woolwich terror attack

Detectives from the Counter Terrorism Command on Thursday arrested two more suspects as part of their investigation into the murder of British solider Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday, a statement from Scotland Yard has confirmed. The two u...

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