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- Is this the end of the Rainbow nation?
  Posted by senselessthing from Guardian UK
  The world watched in horror last week as a wave of attacks on immigrants in South Africa should how lawlessness, economic deprivation and corruption has destroyed the bright dawn of Mandela's post-apartheid dream.
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- Oprah Winfrey’s Lavish South African School
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  Oprah says she decided to build her own school because she was tired of charity from a distance. "When I first started making a lot of money," she says, "I really became frustrated with the fact that all I did was write check after check to this or that charity without really feeling like it was a part of me. At a certain point, you want to feel th
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- South Africa approves gay marriage bill
  Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!
  Despite being the only country which wrote corporate personhood into its Constitution: "South Africa became the first country on the continent to legalise same sex marriages as the government vowed to to banish discrimination in its all forms after the downfall of apartheid."
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- IOL: Killer strain of TB has doctors worried
  Posted by Jon from IOL
  A new strain of TB that can kill within a month has hit South Africa - prompting a high-level meeting of experts in Johannesburg on Thursday. The strain - Extremely Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) - is said to be virtually untreatable. It emerged in Tugela Ferry in KwaZulu-Natal, killing 52 of the 53 people infected with it, half of them within 25 days of diagnosis.
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- S.Africa whale burning draws crowds of spectators
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  South African officials set fire to a 34-metric ton whale carcass on Wednesday, sending white smoke into the air near Cape Town as spectators clambered over blubber-strewn rocks for a closer look.
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- Telescope May Find Light From Earliest Galaxies
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  The Southern African Large Telescope, or SALT, can see 13 billion years back in time, nearly to the big bang. More than a tool for astronomy, SALT also symbolizes the growing importance of science to South Africa's identity and economy.
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- Thieves grab millions in S. Africa heist
  Posted by Billbar from MSNBC
  Two men gained access to the airport’s restricted area and held up police and guards who were carrying the money from the aircraft and one South African daily said they made off with about $16.5 million in cash.
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IOL: Killer strain of TB has doctors worried
This is right from the plot of 'The Constant Gardener' by le Carre.
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6:49 am 9/07/06

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