Tag: south africa
member name: Savo Heleta
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April 11, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on April 10, 2008
For me, Nelson Mandela is a hero, a saintly figure, a role model.
In contrast, the United States government still considers . . .
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November 12, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
Zackie Achmat, a prominent South African AIDS activist has recently blamed the former president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, for 330,000 HIV/AIDS related deaths in the country.
According to a . . .
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February 05, 2009 01:30 PM EST --
I found this add today in a South African newspaper.
King Madeko – Real original African medicine with 100% guarantee is to solve all your problems:
- Bad luck can be removed using . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
Last night's 2-0 victory over the European champions Spain is seen as the greatest win for the United States soccer team since they beat England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup .
At the same time, this is . . .
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September 02, 2009 04:49 AM EDT --
As a white person living in South Africa for a number of years, I find the recent decision by the Canadian immigration board panel to grant Brandon Huntley, a white South African man, refugee status due . . .
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May 22, 2008 05:57 AM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on May 21, 2008
Poor townships and informal settlements around the South African city of Johannesburg exploded in xenophobic violence two weeks . . .
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December 09, 2007 08:40 AM EST --
I published this article in The Herald (South Africa) on May 17, 2007, but it still current and true; only the suffering of the people in Zimbabwe and the inflation rate have increased.
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November 10, 2008 09:24 AM EST --
South Africa is one of the most dangerous countries in the world, with daily horror stories of murder, hijacking, robbery, and rape that barely even make the news any more.
It seems that people . . .
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July 23, 2009 11:16 AM EDT --
A new wave of protests and violence is sweeping some South African provinces.
This comes a year after the country experienced horrific xenophobic violence which saw South African black people lynching, . . .
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November 27, 2008 01:07 PM EST --
By Savo Heleta
First published in the Newropeans Magazine
November 27, 2008
A few decades ago, Zimbabwe was the second most industrialized nation and the most robust agricultural producer . . .
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June 20, 2009 06:36 AM EDT --
No, I'm not talking about a war.
I'm talking about football, or as it's known in America, soccer.
North Korea has recently qualified for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. The United States . . .
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August 26, 2009 02:01 AM EDT --
60,000 children die in South Africa annually, according to a new report released this week.
As the Mail and Guardian writes , "some of the major causes of childhood death listed in the report include . . .
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September 04, 2009 05:07 AM EDT --
The government of Canada will challenge the ruling by the Canadian immigration board panel that granted refugee status to a white man from South Africa who claimed persecution from black South . . .
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June 29, 2009 07:40 AM EDT --
The United States almost shocked the soccer world in the final of the Confederations Cup held on Sunday in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Playing in its first ever major soccer final against Brazil, . . .
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April 25, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
African dictators, tyrants, and alleged war criminals are very likely to regret the April 2009 election victory of the African National Congress and its president, Jacob Zuma, more than the South African . . .
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July 28, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Ordinary people around the world are suffering, unemployment is rising, governments are spending billions to bail out banks and corporations, and no one knows when the global financial crisis is going . . .
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March 24, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
What happened to the morals, values, and principles of freedom and democracy in South Africa? What happened to Nelson Mandela's promise that "human rights will be the light that guides our foreign . . .
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October 19, 2008 05:50 AM EDT --
A few weeks ago, Mosiuoa Lekota was one of the most respected members of the South African ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC). He used to be a central figure in the struggle against apartheid, . . .
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August 27, 2009 06:00 AM EDT --
What happened on August 27 in Pretoria , the capital of South Africa, was not a real military coup, even though it did look like it.
About 2,000 soldiers from South African National Defence Forces . . .
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July 12, 2009 05:34 AM EDT --
A number of South African NGO's and human rights groups will challenge their government's decision to support the African Union's resolution which gives protection to the president of Sudan, Omar al . . .
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