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Meet the 800-Year-Old Golden Rhinoceros that Challenged Apartheid South Africa
Treasures from pre-colonial southern Africa were suppressed because they contradicted apartheid's official history.
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#DataMustFall: South Africans Demand Cheaper Internet
A campaign is launched in South Africa calling for telecom providers to reduce how much they charge for internet services.
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'Flying Ivory' Hornbill Bird Gains Extra Protection
An Asian bird species under threat for it's ivory-like "helmet" has gained extra protection at the Cites conference in Johannesburg.
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Why are South African Students Protesting?
A look at what has sparked the biggest student protests to hit South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994.
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South Africa's Tutu wants 'the Option of an Assisted Death'
The 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been living with prostate cancer for nearly 20 years, reiterated his support for assisted dying in an opinion piece published on the Washington Post on his 85th birthday.
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'Catastrophe' Seen by South Africa Agriculture Due to Drought
Nation’s weather service says possibility of La Nina uncertain.
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Holy Shield: #FeesMustFall Priest Tells of his Day of Terror
Images of Catholic priest Father Graham Pugin in front of a police nyala and bleeding after being shot in the face went around the world on Monday night as South Africa’s university fees crisis worsened. Pugin was hit as he stood as a human shield between the church, where students sought refuge, and riot police.
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South Africa Announces Withdrawal From International Criminal Court
The announcement comes days after Burundi became the first country to withdraw from the war crimes court. The nations accuse the ICC of targeting African countries and calling for regime change.
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After South Africa's Withdrawal, How does the ICC Stay Relevant?
The Rainbow Nation's decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court highlighted its increasingly shaky support from governments across the continent, but their reasons are more complex than headline-grabbing claims the court is racist.
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Apartheid ended 20 years ago, so why is Cape Town still ‘a paradise for the few’?
The South African city is World Design Capital, yet residents of its Khayelitsha township live in appallingly cramped, unhygienic conditions. The need for long-promised urban reform is urgent. By Oliver Wainwright.
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The Price of Gold
Over a period of 20 days, Thom Pierce travelled around South Africa's Eastern Cape, into Lesotho and up to Johannesburg to find and photograph the miners, and widows, suffering from silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis as a result of working in the gold mines.
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There’s no emotion we ought to think harder about than anger
Anger is the emotion that has come to saturate our politics and culture. Philosophy can help us out of this dark vortex. By Martha C Nussbaum.
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New HIV Vaccine Trial to Start in South Africa
Scientists say a new vaccine against HIV, to be tested in a trial to be launched in South Africa this week, could be "the final nail in the coffin" for the disease if it is successful.
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Cutting-Edge Wine: South Africa’s First Black Female Winemaker Goes Solo
In a country in which wine making is still predominantly a white male profession, South Africa’s first black woman winemaker, Ntsiki Biyela, is a pioneer.
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Cannabis can now be grown, smoked at home, court rules
Dagga smokers can breathe a sigh of relief and inhale a puff of ganga – after the high court in the Western Cape declared it legal to grow and smoke dagga in their own homes.
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South Africa lifts ban on domestic rhino horn sales
South Africa’s highest court has rejected a bid by the government to keep a ban on domestic trade in rhino horn, a court document shows. The ruling by the constitutional court effectively means rhino horns may be traded locally. The department of environmental affairs had sought to retain a moratorium on domestic trade in rhino horns which was dismissed by last year by another court. In a one paragraph ruling, the court ruled that the application by government be dismissed.
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South Africans protest against Zuma; violence hits Johannesburg
Jacob Zuma is facing massive protests after culling critics from his cabinet in a midnight reshuffle. A quarter of the country is unemployed and two ratings agencies have downgraded South African debt to "junk" status.
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2 lions, rescued from circuses, are poached in South Africa
Two lions who were rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru last year and transported to South African wild have been killed by poachers in Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary.
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Lost Baby Wildebeest Thinks Cars Are Its Herd
The calf in this video was separated from the rest of its herd and tries to keep up with nearby vehicles instead. By Heather Brady.
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Kenyan Election Official Found Dead Ahead Of Presidential Vote
The man in charge of Kenya's electronic voting system was found dead days before citizens will cast their ballots for president on Aug. 8. Christopher Msando was the IT director of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. His body was found with evidence of torture, said IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati on Monday.
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