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S.Africa's Pistorius up for parole in girlfriend's murder

Johannesburg (AFP) - South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius might be released from prison this week, a decade after he killed his girlfriend in a crime that gripped the world.

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Senegal, South Africa, B. Faso qualify as Namibia shock Cameroon

Johannesburg (AFP) - Defending champions Senegal, South Africa and Burkina Faso qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations in matchday four on Tuesday while Namibia are close to joining them after a shock win over Cameroon.

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Shepherd, Joseph take West Indies to South Africa series win

Johannesburg (AFP) - Romario Shepherd's late batting assault and a five-wicket haul by Alzarri Joseph took the West Indies to a series-clinching seven-run win against South Africa in the third Twenty20 international at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

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Big-hitting Shepherd takes West Indies to another big total

Johannesburg (AFP) - A late burst of power hitting by Romario Shepherd took the West Indies to a challenging 220 for eight in the series-deciding third and final T20 international against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

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South Africa boost World Cup hopes with full-strength squad for Netherlands

Johannesburg (AFP) - South Africa on Monday named a full-strength squad for two must-win one-day internationals against the Netherlands on Friday and Sunday, meaning a delayed start for some of them in the Indian Premier League.

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Iwobi says Nigeria will bounce back after shock loss to Guinea-Bissau

Johannesburg (AFP) - Everton midfielder Alex Iwobi promised that Nigeria will bounce back after suffering a shock 1-0 home loss to Guinea-Bissau on Friday in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying.

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Guinea-Bissau upset Nigeria in Cup of Nations qualifier

Johannesburg (AFP) - Nigeria lost 1-0 at home to Guinea-Bissau on Friday in one of the biggest shocks in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying history.

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S.Africa art show highlights destructive ties between Man and Nature

Johannesburg (AFP) - A lioness towers over a seemingly dead hunter, her paws pinning his body to the ground.

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Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture

Rising 28-year-old South African dancer and rapper Costa Titch (born Costa Tsobanoglou) died after collapsing on stage on 11 March while performing in Johannesburg.

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Virgin passengers stranded for 30 hours and counting after flight diverts to Spain and rescue plane breaks down

Exclusive: ‘After two hours wandering around an empty airport asking local staff if they could help, we eventually found a desk which gave us a bus and hotel voucher,’ passenger tells The Independent

The Independent UK

The real Johannesburg: 6 powerful photos from a gritty new book on the city

Wake Up, This is Joburg is a collaboration between photographer Mark Lewis and urban planner and writer Tanya Zack. Striking images and beautiful texts follow 10 stories the team discovered in urban Johannesburg, South Africa. Each chapter captures many overlapping stories that come together around a character, a place or…

The Conversation

South African Scientists Use Bugs in War against Water Hyacinth Weed

The Hartbeespoort dam in South Africa used to be brimming with people enjoying scenic landscapes and recreational water sports. Now, the visitors are greeted to the sight of boats stuck in a sea of invasive green water hyacinth weed. The spike in Harties - as Hartbeespoort is known - can…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Contract killings come cheap in South Africa

Johannesburg (AFP) - Getting rid of an insufferable husband comes relatively cheap in South Africa, while political hits are more expensive.

AFP

Nigeria's Rivers top CAF Cup group after win with 10 men

Johannesburg (AFP) - Nigerian club Rivers United went top of their CAF Confederation Cup group on Sunday by beating DC Motema Pembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo 1-0 despite having a player red-carded.

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S.Africa's Eskom gets interim head after CEO's sudden exit

Johannesburg (AFP) - Beleaguered South African power utility Eskom appointed an interim CEO on Friday, capping a week of high drama marked by a bombshell interview in which the firm's previous head accused the ruling party of graft.

The National (Scotland)

Warriors plotting a hit-and-run mission to South Africa

FROM wet and windy Scotstoun on Friday night to sunny Ellis Park in Johannesburg next Saturday, Glasgow Warriors will experience the two extremes of…

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Kabylie captain Souyad sinks African champions Wydad

Johannesburg (AFP) - A powerful header from captain Badreddine Souyad earned JS Kabylie of Algeria a 1-0 home victory over CAF Champions League title-holders Wydad Casablanca of Morocco on Friday.

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South Africa name Bavuma as first Black African Test captain

Johannesburg (AFP) - Temba Bavuma was on Friday named the first black African captain of South Africa's Test cricket team in a major shake-up of the squad.

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S.Africa's navy stages exercises with China, Russia

Johannesburg (AFP) - South Africa was on Friday due to embark on a 10-day routine joint military exercise with Russia and China along its eastern coast amid criticism at home and abroad.

AFP

South Africa's largest rhino farm puts itself up for sale

Johannesburg (AFP) - The owner of a huge South African rhino conservation farm, the world's largest, said Monday that it would be sold at auction in April because it could no longer afford to breed the endangered animals.

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Popular S.African rapper AKA shot dead

JOHANNESBURG: One of South Africa's hottest rap artists, Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the southeastern city of Durban, his family said Saturday.

AFP

Johannesburg (AFP) - One of South Africa's hottest rap artists, Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the southeastern city of Durban, his family said Saturday.

Daily Mirror

Brit collapses and dies after 11 hours on flight from Heathrow with wife

Michael Joseph Morris, who was travelling with his wife, suddenly collapsed in the international arrivals toilet while waiting for his luggage to be returned after flying from Heathrow to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg

The Conversation

Radio in South Africa turns 100 – and collides with podcasting and streaming

This year marks 100 years since radio was introduced in South Africa, through “the first experimental broadcast at the Railway Headquarters in Johannesburg” on 18 December 1923.

AFP

S.African president shoots down plan to sponsor Tottenham

Johannesburg (AFP) - A proposed lucrative sponsorship deal between South Africa and a top English football club that sparked a two-day firestorm will not be backed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, his spokesman said Friday.

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