By Miriam MannakFive years after the last presidential elections and exactly fifteen years after Apartheid was abolished, South Africans across the country are voting once again.It is busy at the community centre...
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By Miriam MannakThe massive fire that broke out on Devil's Peak, the left shoulder of Table Mountain, in the evening of March 17, 2009 kept hundreds of firefighters busy all through the night. As...
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By Miriam Mannak Just a year after tying the knot for the fourth time, Jacob Zuma - the president of South Africa's ruling party, the ANC - is to wed his fifth wive. According to the South African media...
About six months after a wave of xenophobic violence struck South Africa - killing over 60 people and displacing approximately 200.000 people country wide - it seems that anti foreigner violence might have struck a township out of Cape Town once again. On December 16,...
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Twenty percent of the South African population wants to, considers or is seriously planning to leave their country. What is interesting is that half of them a black. Yes, that is interesting, as it is often assumed that only whites want to pack their bags. This assumption is...
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It is D-day for the COPE, South Africa’s youngest political party. Earlier this week, the African National Congress (ANC) - the country's ruling party - demanded from the what it calls 'dissidents' to stop using the name Congress of the People. The deadline is today....
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