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That's right, I LIVE HERE, let the jealousy rain down! [Cape Town, SA]
"Be Jealous!" Is not something I usually expect to say to people outside my country about my home, but I feel this warrants it. :) A 300 metre-long water slide is due to be a hit in Cape Town this summer from the good people over at Slide The City.
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Bill Drummond's 10 Commandments of Art
Artist provocateur Bill Drummond achieved success with the KLF. But 'not resting on your laurels' is one of his artistic creeds as he embarks on a 12-year world tour.
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Oscar Pistorius' Early Release is Blocked by Justice Minister
South Africa's justice minister has blocked the early release of Oscar Pistorius, saying the decision by the parole board to free him was premature.
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Global selloff wipes $2.7trn from markets
Asian markets have staged a comeback with US index futures after a selloff that wiped $2.7 trillion from global equity markets.
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Sudan's security forces killed, raped and burned civilians alive, says rights group
Sudanese security forces gang-raped women in hospital, shot and burned civilians alive, and committed other appalling acts of torture during two military campaigns in Darfur, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, urging international peacekeepers to do more to stop the atrocities. In a new report – the latest detailing repeated horrors in Darfur – HRW quoted women who were gang-raped, and defectors from the...
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New species Homo naledi unveiled in SA
The top secret historic fossil discovery was unveiled at the Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng today.
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New human-like species discovered in S Africa
Scientists have discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South Africa. The discovery of 15 partial skeletons is the largest single discovery of its type in Africa. The researchers claim that the discovery will change ideas about our human ancestors. The studies which have been published in the journal Elife also indicate that these individuals were capable of ritual behaviour.
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Steve Biko on Death and Police Violence
South African liberation leader Steven Biko meditates on his life, just months before his death on 12 Sept., 1977.
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Flash from the past: Why an apparent Israeli nuclear test in 1979 matters today
At a time when the Iran agreement is in the headlines and other Middle Eastern countries—notably Saudi Arabia—are making noises about establishing their own programs for nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, it is worth giving renewed scrutiny to an event that occurred 36 years ago: a likely Israeli-South African nuclear test over the ocean between the southern part of Africa and the Antarctic.
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Japan beat South Africa in most incredible result in Rugby World Cup history
World Cup, Group B, Brighton – South Africa. Japan produced the biggest shock in the history of the sport to beat Pool B favourites and rugby giants South Africa 34-32 in Brighton. The Cherry Blossoms had gone a record 18 World Cup matches without a win heading into this game – their first ever meeting with the Springboks, who had won all of their tournament openers since 1995.
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The stranger and the ring
When Tim Butcher's father died he left him a ring - but Tim lost it on a South African beach and there seemed little hope of finding it, until a stranger with a metal detector offered to help.
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Christmas in South Africa - a look at video games in South Africa in the early 90s
"All videogames that I saw, until I left, were either grey-market imports from America and Japan, or bootlegs from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong."
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Black Bags, Blood, and Pungent Paste: South African Soccer’s Muti Rituals
South African soccer has a long tradition of players using traditional medicine and black magic to gain a psychological edge. By Nick Kariuki.
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Kenya Is Accused of Forcing Suspected Gay Men to Take HIV and Anal Tests
Kenyan officials have come under fire from LGBT activists in the country over a case where authorities allegedly forced two men to undergo HIV and anal testing to verify whether or not they were gay — considered a crime in Kenya that can land someone in jail for up to 14 years. The Nairobi-based National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHC) filed a lawsuit this week against a judge and police station in the small coastal town of Msambweni...
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Safari South Africa
Tyler Fairbank
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Why South African students have turned on their parents’ generation
When a black South African student threw a bucket of excrement over a statue of Cecil Rhodes, it kicked off a protest movement that is shattering the way the country sees its past. By Eve Fairbanks.
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3rd December 1967 - First human heart transplant
53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation.
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Why South Africa's Air Force Lets Cheetahs Roam Its Bases
The world’s fastest land animal serves as a handy patrol on military bases near wildlife reserves.
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Wind And Sun Come To The Rescue In Power-Short South Africa
Renewable energy arrived in South Africa as a green luxury. But this year, wind and solar farms turned out to be economy-saving necessities.
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Yasiin Bey, formerly Mos Def, arrest in South Africa
Yasiin Bey, the hip-hop artist formerly known as Mos Def, has been arrested in South Africa for attempting to use a "world passport" — which doesn't exist. A government spokesman said that Bey attempted to use a false passport when leaving the country on Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Bey has 14 days to leave the country and is now banned from returning to South Africa for five years.
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