Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of Sao Paulo to protest poor public services, police violence and government corruption.
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Two South Africans have died in an al-Shabab attack on a United Nations compound in Somalia on Tuesday.
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The South African netball team will have a good mix of youth and experience for the African Championships starting next week, says coach Elize Kotze.
- 3 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 2:31pm -

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has no intention of retracting her department's blistering attack on rights organisation Equal Education.
- 4 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 1:36pm -

After a decade-long absence, the Miss Algeria beauty contest is to resume on Friday in the western city of Oran, says organisers.
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The Daily Maverick has retracted a controversial story which claimed that al-Qaeda is active in South Africa.
- 5 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 12:38pm -

Somalia's al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab insurgents have shot and blasted their way into the UN compound in Mogadishu, leaving eight people dead.
- 5 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 12:32pm -

The 100th birthday of the 1913 Natives Land Act provides an opportunity for SA to evaluate progress made in land redistribution, says the ANC.
- 6 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 12:12pm -

Turkey's deputy prime minister has given a nod of approval to a new form of peaceful resistance that is spreading through Turkey.
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Power FM started broadcasting on Tuesday, and, despite a few technical hitches, listeners have not been disappointed.
- 6 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 11:29am -

Mozambique's former rebels have vowed to block the country's main highway and a crucial rail link to coal fields.
- 6 mins ago, 19 Jun 13, 5:52pm -

Hundreds of Botswana Bushmen who have won a temporary reprieve against eviction are calling on government to recognise their settlement.
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Hungary's tax authority has questioned two men over a fake contract that, if fulfilled, would have involved the sale of nearly half a million tonnes of sugar.
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Tshwane cannot be held in contempt of court for not re-installing old street name signs, the city said.
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Two people have been murdered in separate crimes in Mpumalanga.
- 20 mins ago, 19 Jun 13, 5:38pm -

A security guard was shot and wounded when robbers bombed three ATMs in Witbank.
- 21 mins ago, 19 Jun 13, 5:37pm -

The killers of a district ANC leader were hired by politicians "too powerful to be brought to book", their lawyers say.
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Former president Nelson Mandela's family has again gathered at the hospital where he is receiving treatment.
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“We historically have been one of the largest consumers of South African rock lobster...”
- 1 hour ago, 19 Jun 13, 4:48pm -

Employees want a portion of the R294 million restitution Hout Bay Fishing Industries has been ordered to pay.
- 1 hour ago, 19 Jun 13, 4:48pm -

Last June his wife accused him of being unfaithful. He chased her and the children out of the house, and followed them to a neighbour's house. There he took a pick-axe handle and hit and killed his youngest child Wesley.
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The City of Cape Town has been granted a final interdict against those who interfere with servicing of toilets, mayor Patricia de Lille said.
- 4 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 2:05pm -

With the Rand hovering around the R10 to the US Dollar, property in South Africa has become a real bargain.
- 5 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 1:26pm -

Solidarity has asked the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to facilitate a meeting between it and SA Airways (SAA) concerning the airline's cadet pilot programme, the union said.
- 5 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 1:21pm -

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has filed an urgent application with the country's top court to push back crucial elections by two weeks, his justice minister said.
- 5 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 1:16pm -

Government has failed to redistribute land to previously disadvantaged groups, the so-called Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said.
- 5 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 1:15pm -

Mining magnate and billionaire Patrice Motsepe has donated R12 million to help rid Cape Town of poverty and unemployment.
- 8 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 9:53am -

Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is unfazed by not getting support from his former allies in the league in his new political formation.
- 8 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 9:50am -

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reportedly named their newborn daughter Kaidence Donda West.
- 9 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 8:32am -

A warning issued to tourists by the United States says Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town are "critical crime threat spots", The New Age reported.
- 10 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 7:58am -

The president defended his right to have friends, even if their surname happened to be Gupta.
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Ekurhuleni Emergency Services spokesperson William Ntladi said no injuries were reported.
- 1 hour ago, 19 Jun 13, 4:42pm -

Tirhani Maswanganyi was subpoenaed to testify in a murder trial before his mysterious death.
- 2 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 4:22pm -

The 54-year-old man beat his three-year-old son to death with the handle of a pick-axe.
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SA miners are in the top earning bracket of blue collar workers in the country.
- 2 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 3:38pm -

Mandla Mandela says SA needs to understand the history behind how black people lost their land.
- 2 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 3:33pm -

Two South African employees may be amongst the casualties following an attack in Somalia.
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A Khayelitsha principal says he cannot teach kids about sanitation when their community has none.
- 3 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 3:01pm -

The group will spend a fifth night in District Six, insisting they'll only be moved by force.
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Mandela was admitted to hospital nearly two weeks ago and is believed to still be in a serious condition.
- 3 hours ago, 19 Jun 13, 2:53pm -

Italy's new Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge said Wednesday that the country is "changing its approach" to immigration.    
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Western government sanctions against Iran suffered a big setback on Wednesday when Britain's top court ruled that the government was wrong to have imposed sanctions on the biggest Iranian private bank over alleged links to Tehran's nuclear programme.…
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The United States has given Afghanistan written assurance that the new Taliban office in Qatar does not constitute political recognition for the Islamist group, senior Afghan officials told Reuters on Wednesday.    
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Eastern Cape DA councillor Stanford Slabbert is guilty of arrogance towards black people, the African National Congress said.    
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Andre Burgener has been immersed in all things food since she took over the making of the family's lunch box sandwiches aged eight (her mom could make a mean creme brulee and a staggering souffle, but could never butter the bread all the way to the e…
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A Bosnian shepherd who killed with an axe a bear that attacked him overnight was hospitalised and his condition was described as serious, a local TV station reported on Sunday.    
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The father of a KwaZulu-Natal high school pupil dropped from his school's first cricket team is suing the coach.    
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Basic Education Minister "Angie Motshekga" was dolled up to take centre stage at an Equal Education Youth Day march yesterday.    
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My son Jonathan, who lives in Australia and writes for the Australian Financial Review, is currently on assignment in New York.    
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An assortment of get-well gifts continue to flood into the Medi-clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, where Nelson Mandela is today spending his 12th day.    
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In The Information Bomb (Verso, 2005, p. 62), Paul Virilio says the following: “ ‘He who knows everything fears nothing,’ claimed Joseph Paul Goebbels not so long ago. From now on, with the putting into orbit of a new kind of panoptical control…
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By Manqoba Nxumalo With elections lurking, developments in the political scene have created a political conundrum for the poor and disenfranchised: do they vote on loyalty or for change? The recent announcement of new political entrants, particularly…
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If Lindiwe Mazibuko and Angie Motshekga appear poles apart politically, there is one reality they have shared socially — being subjected to public sexist insults. Mazibuko’s case is only the latest in a number of public incidents where women are…
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Poststructuralist psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has argued that humans distinguish themselves from animals in the instant during which shit becomes something shameful. Thus it is the norm in ‘polite society’ that humans defecate in the privacy of a…
- 1 day ago, 18 Jun 13, 11:54am -

Being a business woman, Jenna da Silva Pinto saw a unique opportunity. She made a connection which now seems so obvious. But this would not be a lucrative business, delivering large returns on investment. “I’ve always marveled at the therapeutic…
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A welcome break from medical politics – I wrote this a long time ago … it still applies just as much now as it did then. All a doctor’s knowledge, skill, patience and dedication are valueless without intuition. When all else lets us down, all t…
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On June 8 2013 fellow Thought Leader blogger Malaika wa Azania shared a short opinion piece on her FB wall. In it she raised debate around the apparent Ubuntu in African people, and how the white man has “made of us animals with their capitalism an…
- 2 days ago, 17 Jun 13, 7:16pm -

I was planning to ignore Youth Day until I accepted an invitation to the Youth Radio Awards on Sunday evening, June 16. Instead of a march or yet another speech-making event, I found myself in a hall buzzing with youth exuberance as the work of young…
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My first remembered door was a toilet, me traumatised on the wrong side, trapped, wailing. Dad slid under the door a mysterious bit of serrated metal, introduced with the newly minted word, key, key … pick up the bloody key! Then, as I triumphed ov…
- 3 days ago, 16 Jun 13, 11:07am -

While Nelson Mandela clings precariously to life in a Pretoria hospital, the organisation he helped birth finds itself similarly in extremis. Mandela, however, would find it difficult to recognise in today’s African National Congress Youth League (…
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