GENEVA, Switzerland, December 17, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – IOM organizes, this week, an HIV awareness and testing campaign for mine workers returning from the South African gold and platinum mines for the holidays. The campaign, which also marks International ...
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Mandela: The transformational global figure
Dec 9, 2013
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The human spirit’s ability to triumph over any adversity is worth celebrating, and so is the life of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist and former South African president who dedicated his life towards uplifting the just causes of South Africa’s ...
The BBC reports – Nelson Mandela has died
Dec 5, 2013
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According to the world’s greatest and most respected news organisation, the BBC, South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa’s president says. Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa’s transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after ...
Sugar barons tariff demands threaten to add R6 billion annual cost to consumers and raise costs for South African food industry
Oct 10, 2013
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According to the Association of Southern African Sugar Importers (ASASI), the tariff demands by SASA will mean an immediate 44 per cent price increase CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, October 10, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Demands by the South African Sugar Association (SASA) to ...
Ten million SASSA MasterCard cards issued to South African social grant beneficiaries
Aug 20, 2013
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Electronic programme helps government minimise fraud, reduce costs, and extend financial inclusion to millions ...
Charlize Theron: “The moment to act against AIDS is now”
Aug 2, 2013
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Durban, 2 August, 2013 – HIV/AIDS campaigner and actress Charlize Theron today met Youth Ambassadors who act as role models for their peers and raise awareness of how to prevent the spread of HIV in communities in her native South ...
Island nation warns citizens travelling to South Africa to be prudent after rising robberies reported to embassy staff
Jun 27, 2013
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The Mauritian government has warned its citizens travelling to South Africa to be cautious about their safety and security following increasing reports of robberies and assaults on Mauritians. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs attacks are occurring at gunpoint ...
IFC hosts International conference to promote energy efficiency in South Africa
May 27, 2013
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JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, May 27, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The conference is hosted in partnership with the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs, SECO, and aims to increase local awareness of the ESCO model as one possible solution to current and ...
South Africa’s Somali refugee child stars fly to the Oscars
Feb 23, 2013
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22 February 2013 - After narrowly winning a race against time to get extended refugee status, passports and visas, brothers Harun and Ali Mohammed are flying from Cape Town to Hollywood today for Sunday’s Academy Awards, where their film Asad will ...
Brenda Fassie – The irreplaceable queen of African music
Jan 6, 2013
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Not too often has the talent of an African Female singer have such an impact on world music as the late Brenda Fassie has. The South African born singer epitomised everything sensational, pure and rich about African Music. I have ...
Britain’s Daily Mail reports – Jacob Zuma spends £17.5million on his home town palace as 13 million South Africans survive on less than £1 a day
Nov 25, 2012
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One of Britain’s respected and popular newspapers, the Daily Mail, is reporting that South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, has spent £17.5million on his home town palace as his country is racked by poverty, with 13 million people surviving on less than £1 a day, and with two million having ...
Near tragedy as plane carrying over 100 Malawian illegals is engulfed in flames at South Africa’s OR Tambo Airport
Nov 13, 2012
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Blantyre, Malawi, Nov. 13 (Newstime Africa) – A near tragedy was averted Tuesday when a chartered plane carrying some 127 Malawians caught fire minutes after taking off from South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport. ”One of the wheels of the plane caught ...