News: South Africa

We have started to collect the most important news related to South Africa in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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South Africa: news

Judge postpones Zuma graft case

Monday, July 31st 2006, 10:29

A South African judge will decide in September on whether Jacob Zuma's corruption trial will proceed.
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Cricket: Murali wraps up victory

Monday, July 31st 2006, 9:04
related countries: Sri Lanka

Muttiah Muralitharan takes 10-172 as Sri Lanka beat South Africa by an innings and 153 runs.
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Cricket: Sri Lanka take control

Thursday, July 27th 2006, 13:25
related countries: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka reach 128-2 in reply to South Africa's 169 on day one of the first Test.
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Outrage at racist ringtone in SA

Tuesday, July 18th 2006, 11:58

A racist mobile phone ringtone is condemned by South Africa authorities who threaten prosecution.
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Rugby: Australia thrash S Africa

Saturday, July 15th 2006, 12:11

Australia record their first win of the Tri-Nations with a stunning victory over a dismal South Africa in Brisbane.
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SA literary prize winner's joy

Tuesday, July 11th 2006, 16:53

The Caine Prize winner from South Africa expresses her joy at winning one of Africa's leading literary awards.
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Mbeki makes World Cup pledge

Friday, July 7th 2006, 15:36

South African President Thabo Mbeki vows that the 2010 World Cup will be the most successful ever.
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Row over SA World Cup warning

Friday, July 7th 2006, 11:18

South African officials criticise a website urging would-be tourists not to go to the 2010 World Cup because of crime.
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Zuma to sue SA media for libel

Tuesday, July 4th 2006, 14:13

South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma plans to sue media over coverage of his rape trial.
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Zimbabwe releases apartheid spies

Saturday, July 1st 2006, 22:33
related countries: Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe frees three men convicted of murder and spying for apartheid-era South Africa.
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SA boy starves during initiation

Thursday, June 29th 2006, 12:16

A South African teenager dies of malnutrition during initiation rituals - the ninth such death this year.
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Cache found at SA shoot-out house

Monday, June 26th 2006, 9:01

South African police find an arms cache at a house where four police and eight suspects died in Sunday's shooting.
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S Africa robbery ends in carnage

Sunday, June 25th 2006, 19:02
related places: Johannesburg

A shoot-out after a Johannesburg robbery leaves eight gang members and four South Africa police dead.
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SA prisoners win Aids drug case

Thursday, June 22nd 2006, 12:49

South African prisoners with HIV win a court action forcing the government to give them free anti-retroviral drugs.
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Search for Mandela's gun

Thursday, June 22nd 2006, 11:49
related places: Johannesburg

South African historians search for a gun buried by Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg before his 1963 arrest.
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SA minister backs crime remark

Wednesday, June 21st 2006, 13:25

South Africa's security minister defends a remark in which he accused people of "whinging" about crime.
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Zimbabwean 'in SA hijack'

Monday, June 19th 2006, 13:13

A Zimbabwean student appears in a South African court, accused of trying to hijack a passenger plane.
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'Hijack' drama on S African plane

Saturday, June 17th 2006, 16:02

An armed man apparently tries to hijack a South African domestic flight but is overpowered, the airline says.
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S Africa marks Soweto uprising

Friday, June 16th 2006, 14:57
related places: Soweto

South Africa marks 30 years since the student protest that was pivotal in the fight against apartheid.
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De Klerk 'stable' after surgery

Wednesday, June 14th 2006, 12:48

South Africa's last white president FW de Klerk is stable after complications following surgery for cancer.
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How Soweto changed everything

Saturday, June 10th 2006, 11:14
related countries: Bermuda
related places: Soweto

Hamilton Wende recalls the enormous impact the Soweto riots had on his life and the lives of every South African.
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SA deportee 'went to Pakistan'

Friday, June 9th 2006, 10:38
related countries: Pakistan

The South African government says a Pakistani man missing since being deported in 2005 was taken to Pakistan.
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Mbeki 'doing as well as Mandela'

Thursday, June 8th 2006, 12:11

Surveys suggest that South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki is as popular as Nelson Mandela was.
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SA pressed on missing Pakistani

Wednesday, June 7th 2006, 9:34
related countries: Pakistan

Laywers for a Pakistani man who disappeared in South Africa fear he may be a victim of rendition.
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E Guinea to release coup plotter

Monday, June 5th 2006, 14:45
related countries: Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is to free on humanitarian grounds a South African convicted over a coup plot.
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Dalai Lama awards Tintin and Tutu

Friday, June 2nd 2006, 12:28

The Dalai Lama honours comic strip adventure hero Tintin and South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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South Africans 'lose' 50,000 guns

Friday, June 2nd 2006, 10:08

More than 50,000 guns have gone missing in South Africa in the last three years, the security minister says.
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UN hears plea for HIV medication

Thursday, June 1st 2006, 9:31

A South African woman living with HIV urges world leaders at the UN to make medication available.
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MP highlights Zimbabwe's plight

Tuesday, May 30th 2006, 11:31
related countries: Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean ex-MP Roy Bennett says he sought asylum in South Africa to draw attention to his country's plight.
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Ex-Zimbabwe MP denied SA asylum

Friday, May 26th 2006, 9:45

South Africa rejects a request for political asylum from former Zimbabwe opposition MP Roy Bennett.
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SA unions warn of 'dictatorship'

Thursday, May 25th 2006, 15:22
related places: Zuma

South Africa's trade unions warn the country is drifting towards dictatorship.
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UN 'key' to Zimbabwe - Mbeki

Thursday, May 25th 2006, 0:02
related countries: Zimbabwe

South African President Thabo Mbeki says that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan can resolve Zimbabwe's crisis.
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Tutu regrets Zuma's trial legacy

Wednesday, May 24th 2006, 10:41
related places: Zuma

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu voices dismay at the way Jacob Zuma's rape trial was conducted.
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