Springboks release FOUR Rugby World Cup winners

Ebrahim Rasool appointed as chairman of troubled WPRFU

Former ANC MP Ebrahim Rasool was ratified as the new chairman at a WPRFU board meeting on Friday 4 September. Zelt Marais, President of the Union, confirmed the appointment on Saturday.

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2 police officers charged over allegedly robbing fellow cop and his wife at gunpoint

Two police officers stationed in Limpopo, who are accused of robbing another police officer and his wife at gunpoint, were arrested on

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Africa: Inadequate Diets Are Making Populations Vulnerable to COVID-19

Johannesburg — AllAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Dr Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in all its forms by tackling injustices in food and health

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South Africa (Geography and History)

Population: 49,052,489 (July 2009

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Cameroon: Music Legends Ben Decca, Eduke Collaborate On New Single Belembete

Cape Town — Cameroonian legend and Makossa music icon Ben Decca and Cameroonian-born music producer Eduke have teamed up for a new single

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Brackengate: A look inside the Western Cape’s new field hospital [photos]

The Brackengate Field Hospital in the Western Cape has approximately 330 beds and is expected to take in its first patient on 10 July 2020.

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Nigeria: Why It's Time for Adults to Accept That Nigerian Teenagers Have a Digital Life

Young people are growing up in an environment ruled by digital devices, the internet and social

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Africa: Over 240,000 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases, and 110,000 Recoveries

Cape Town — As of June 15, the confirmed COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached

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Africa: Why the World Needs to Ensure Wild Species Are Used Sustainably

Recognising the value of wild species will both support rural livelihoods and provide important incentives for their sustainable

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OPINION: Steel mills can steal from the least powerful - Jackson Advocate

By Ben Jealous Jackson Advocate Guest Writer U.S. Steel gave birth to Gary, Indiana, in 1906. The city, named after a chairman of the corporation’s board, started as housing for steelworkers. The Gary Works opened in 1908 and for most of the 20th century was the largest steel mill in the

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Keep in dark. Feed with platitudes - NEWS & ANALYSIS | Politicsweb

Take the government’s modelling of COVID’s likely trajectory in South

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City of Cape Town heads to court to stop cops from interfering in film shoots | News24

The City of Cape Town is off to the Western Cape High Court where it will seek an interdict to prevent police from further "unlawful interference" in film shoots in the city.

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South Africa: Up in Smoke - Roughly R35m in Tobacco Tax Revenues Lost Daily During South Africa's Lockdown

Source: Yusuf Abramjee, founder of Tax Justice South Africa (29 April

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Africa: Moroccan-Designed COVID-19 Test Kit Internationally Approved

Cape Town — With a decade of experience in the development of diagnostic kits, the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation, and Research Foundation (MAScIR), a research and development institution based in Rabat, had its novel coronavirus diagnostic kit validated by the

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Cape warned to brace for snow, rainfall, rough seas and gale force winds

The City of Cape Town's Disaster Management Centre has warned that gale force winds and strong gusts are expected to hit the western coasts of the province on Tuesday

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WATCH | Contracting Covid-19 was a cathartic experience, says survivor

Prior to being diagnosed with Covid-19 in March, Capetonian Hector Eliott says he was not really following the story

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Hopping mad driver leaves assailant without a leg to stand on

E-hailing driver rides over Cape Town man who tried to hijack him. Explains he’s from ‘Jo’burg and doesn’t mess around’.

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South Africa -- Changes in Town and Geographical Names

Since the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994, a number of changes have been made to geographical names in the country. It can get a bit confusing, as mapmakers struggle to keep up, and road signs arent immediately changed. In many instances, the new names were existing ones used by

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South Africa: Journal Announces 'Special Issue of Rebuttals' Amid Furore Over UCT Professor's Article

A storm erupted this week over an academic research paper by a globally known economics professor from

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Khayelitsha eviction: Bulelani Qolani describes humiliating incident

Qolani said that the world needs to see his traumatic experience at the hands of City of Cape Town law enforcement officers in Khayelitsha.

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Africa: How You Can Get In For Africa During the COVID-19 Pandemic

You know, a lot of the times they just showcase one face of Africa but actually there are a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of geniuses, a lot of creative talent , business-minded people and communities that are helping themselves already on ground, so this is not another situation where Africa is

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Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach , , pseudonym Jan Blom (born Sept. 16, 1939, Bonnievale, S.Af.), exiled South African writer who was a leading Afrikaner poet and critic of apartheid. He became a naturalized French

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Covid-19: Soup kitchens can no longer be policed or controlled, court says

The government can no longer prevent the distribution of food during the Covid-19 national lockdown after a non-governmental organisation (NGO) - 1 000 Women Trust - approached the courts and won the right to freely assist the

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26 cases of Covid-19 at Mediclinic Cape Town

Twenty-six people have tested positive for Covid-19 at Mediclinic Cape Town in Oranjezicht, the medical facility confirmed on

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Snoop Dogg Says He’s Done Smoking Weed, X Calls Cap!

Rapper Snoop Dogg announced earlier today on social media that he's done smoking weed. The legendary West Coast emcee, who's grown to be as famous for blowing trees as he is for his acting, rapping, and endorsing just about everything, shocked fans worldwide with his

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Africa: Some Progress, But Africans Still Live With All Forms of Malnutrition - Global Nutrition Report

There is over 200 million undernourished people in the African continent, and with the novel coronavirus sweeping countries, the urgency to address their food and health systems increases as undernourished people have weak immune systems leaving them vulnerable and exposed to

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Africa: New Study Finds More Biodiversity in Richer Neighbourhoods

A unique global study has found that wealthier neighbourhoods in cities have more biodiversity in comparison to poorer ones - a pattern that scientists have called the 'luxury

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City of Cape Town pays tribute to firefighter who died of Covid-19

The City said Mbhokhwe was a "credit" to the fire and rescue

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South Africa: From Maternal Health to COVID-19 - How a WhatsApp Service Became Essential for Millions

Cape Town — Covid-19 Connect, a WhatsApp service that provides users with relevant information to help make informed and effective decisions during the pandemic, was developed by Praekelt.org for South Africa, but the organisation's experience with digital health technology like MomConnect allowed

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Hangberg unrest 'stabilised' after residents protest demolition of structures, torch creche

Despite incidents of stone throwing in the Hout Bay area on Saturday morning, unrest in which buildings were set alight on Friday night has stabilised, according to

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