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  • Do white people have a future in South Africa?
  • Mandela daughters sue father
  • Marais starts rights group for coloureds
  • Ghana stampede kills four at at TB Joshua’s church
  • ‘No need for Zuma to explain Gupta ties’
  • South Africa’s brave new world of the egg trade
  • France to keep 1,000 troops in Mali indefinitely
  • ‘Madiba wanted daughters to back off from business’
  • Lesotho: Daughters cannot succeed father as Chief
  • African coffee isn’t worth a bean
  • Ghana launches miniature satellite
  • African leaders must emulate Chinese celebrities to save elephants
  • ‘SA army in financial fix’
  • SA air force bases ‘neglected’
  • South African university makes Zulu compulsory
  • EU to pledge 520m euros for Mali reconstruction
  • Letter from Africa: Nigerian Ladies at war
  • DA focuses on land reform in South Africa
  • Nairobi city hit by pig protest over MPs pay
  • ANC accused of bribing poor whites to boost multi-racial reputation
  • Outrage at Syrian rebel shown ‘eating soldier’s heart’
  • South Africa: Who are the Guptas?
  • Lonmin workers on strike after shooting
  • Robbers make off with millions SA rand after Bieber Joburg concert
  • Bomb kills and injured dozens as Libya’s security unravels
  • DA wants answers on SA al-Qaeda probe
  • SA: Video shows fight between cyclist and diplomat’s guards
  • Public works’s Nkandla report to be kept secret
  • Rwanda: ‘We live with those who killed our families”
  • How China is educating Africa
  • Angola’s war against poor people
  • The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa
  • Kenya tells UN to stop Kenyatta’s trial on crimes against humanity trial
  • Tutu: I will not be able to vote for the ANC
  • Unknown number of elephants feared dead in Central African Republic
  • Female genital mutilation campaigners face death threats
  • AG won’t have a ‘special investigation’ into the Gupta wedding
  • How much longer will ANC tolerate Zuma?
  • Malema’s house auctioned for R5.9m
  • SA barks at Israel on Syria, but refuses to bite
  • Kenya condom advert opposed by Catholic Church
  • Joburg had a disastrous year under Mayor’s administration
  • What SA’s electorate is made of
  • Malema mansion to be auctioned
  • Zambian gay couple rearrested after tipoff by relatives
  • Now – Mandela wine
  • HMRC to help Ethiopia and Tanzania collect taxes
  • Mrs Zuma’s claim for “stolen” jewellery dismissed
  • Failure to support Somalia ‘will lead to terrorism’
  • Sub-Saharan Africa ranks lowest for mothers
  • The ANC and the Guptas: Money for nothing
  • Documents reveal Gupta plane was cleared by SANDF
  • Gupta scandal ‘dividing ANC’
  • Physically disabled patients abandoned in SA
  • 12 SA pilots held in Namibia
  • Libya parliament bans Gaddafi-era officials
  • The great global food gap
  • Water leaks cost Gauteng R8-billion
  • SAA borrows R1.5bn to keep going
  • Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta to meet UK’s David Cameron
  • Letter from Africa: Miniskirts and morals
  • Oilgate 2: New evidence of kickbacks
  • Mission impossible? Africom goes on a media charm offensive
  • Angolan refugees fear repatriation
  • British millions for new Somalian security forces FOR
  • Arrests made over Gupta saga
  • ‘SA losing battle against corruption’
  • 2013 World Press Freedom Index
  • Guptagate: Meet the SA civil servant who made it possible
  • Gupta’s Family gets state security at Sun City
  • The travesty of Madiba as a gimmick
  • Millionaire who quit Microsoft to educate future African leaders
  • ANC Youth League: Purge or clean slate?
  • SA energy: Nuclear warning sparks meltdown
  • South Africa criticises UK decision to end direct aid
  • Viewpoint: Is ‘gap yah’ volunteering a bad thing?
  • Who was on the Gupta wedding plane?
  • All-Africa plagiarism event
  • Satellite images ‘show Nigeria army abuse’
  • 260,000 starved to death in Somalia famine
  • SANDF ‘unaware’ of Guptas air base use
  • Cape charity grows on olive bounty
  • China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive
  • ANC criticised over Nelson Mandela video
  • Ghanaians ban ‘spirit child’ killing
  • Fifa’s new racism taskforce
  • South Africa’s direct aid from UK to end
  • Images show frail Nelson Mandela
  • Fury over Zuma’s ‘invading’ visit to Mandela
  • Parasite ‘resistant to malaria drug’
  • Zambia remembers air crash victims on 20th anniversary
  • WhatsApp overtakes SMS texts for first time
  • Madiba family rakes in millions
  • Somalia’s displaced population
  • Should Big Pharma be calling the shots on drug donations
  • Southern Africa’s first multiracial school celebrates 50 years
  • Obama plays Daniel Day Lewis in White House skit
  • Free trade & entrepreneurship under threat in SA
  • Mpisane wins tenders worth R455m – despite conviction
  • Illegal mines tarnish gold from Ghana
  • Circus sues SA filmmaker for R1m
  • Africa Beats: DR Congo’s Jupiter
  • Nigeria corruption: how a bottle of whisky saved my life
  • Malawi’s Maize Shortage Hits Women
  • Cell Phones Yes, Toilets No
  • SA chicken consumers get plucked
  • Big business leaves SA swimmers to drown
  • Rape in South Africa: Desperately seeking a political champion
  • Toilet trials and tribulations in the Cape
  • Oilgate 2: R1bn scandal rocks PetroSA
  • Desmond Tutu in hospital
  • Teachers union gives Zuma 21-day ultimatum
  • Joyce Banda has bigger problems than Madonna
  • Bizos challenges Mandela daughters
  • Brazil’s Santos Cruz to head UN’s DRC mission
  • Two Tibetan monks in China die after self-immolations
  • SA satanic attack witness was ‘drugged up’
  • Darfur war crimes suspect ‘killed in Sudan’
  • Zuma’s son backs new budget airline
  • SA TopTV’s porn channels get the nod
  • President Yoweri Museveni’s sack of money sparks Uganda row
  • Cops knew Marikana miners used muti
  • Sierra Leone ‘blood diamonds’ not forever
  • Sierra Leone: One man’s tale of war and recovery
  • Woodstock icon Richie Havens dies at 72
  • Africa Beats: Putting the soul into Soweto
  • Mandela honoured by film installation in Times Square
  • Friends say Nelson Mandela lacked trust in his family
  • Need to courier food to Lagos for your birthday party?
  • Somali broadcasting journalist killed
  • London Marathon 2013: Priscah Jeptoo and Tsegaye Kebede win
  • Malema’s house to be auctioned in May
  • Eccas urges Zuma to redeploy SA troops to CAR
  • Weekend clashes leave 185 dead in Nigeria
  • How extortion is hobbling broadband roll-out in SA
  • Boston Marathon bombings were an ‘act of terror’, says Obama – video
  • Boston bombing investigators reveal photos of evidence – video
  • Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: ashes may be buried alongside husband in Chelsea
  • MF: Africa’s economic growth surging south of the Sahara
  • South Africa’s nationals go on without Oscar Pistorius – USA Today
  • Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies, aged 87
  • Putin warns of conflict with Korea
  • UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
  • Hamas ‘force men to cut long hair’
  • SA troops to be withdrawn from CAR
  • Desmond Tutu wins $1.7m Templeton prize
  • US offers up to $5m for leads on Uganda warlord Kony
  • Exhaled breath is unique fingerprint
  • Leaks reveal secrets of the rich who hide cash offshore
  • Govt closes 3 private radio stations closed in Puntland
  • Row over South Africa’s role in CAR’s rebellion
  • Nigerian president is ‘squeezing the life out of our country’
  • Kenya is stuck with Uhuru Kenyatta, for better or worse
  • Families in Mali splintered by slavery
  • Madonna accused of snubbing Malawi’s president
  • No one’s singing along to Zuma’s new CAR tune
  • Animal testing for cosmetics legal in SA
  • Letter from Africa: Chinua Achebe betrayed
  • Zuma at memorial for SA troops killed in CAR
  • Mali crisis: EU troops begin training mission
  • Happy Sindane found ‘stoned to death’ in South Africa
  • Private sector ignores Zuma’s pay freeze request
  • Mandela returns to hospital with lung infection
  • Oscar Pistorius cleared to travel abroad to compete
  • SA sends more troops to Central African Republic
  • Madagascar hit by ‘severe’ plague of locusts
  • Kenya deaths as machete wielding gang attacks Malindi casino
  • Mali needs 11,000 peacekeepers
  • Niger becomes latest frontline in US war on terror
  • Moeletsi Mbeki tries to muzzle former workers
  • Tape implicates Zuma lawyer in ‘farcical’ tender
  • More deaths reported as bodies of SA troops return
  • Britain to fund £180m medical programme in DRC
  • South Africans rush to harvest cannabis plantation
  • What are SA troops doing in a civil war?
  • Nigerian oil militant jailed for 24 years by SA court
  • SA soldiers were killed after truce in CAR
  • 2000 SA officials prosecuted for fraud
  • Another self-immolation protest against China’s rule over Tibet
  • What is SA doing in Central African Republic?
  • Zambia’s ex-President Rupiah Banda arrested
  • Egypt’s Islamist rulers get tough on alcohol
  • South Africa: more of a briquette than a Bric?
  • Gaddafi’s wife and three children go missing from Algeria
  • Government’s ICT policy is slowly strangling SA
  • SANDF confirms SA casualties in Central African Republic
  • Long lasting change is about good governance
  • Renowned Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe dies
  • SA photographer wins award for portraits of black lesbians
  • Mali-Burkina Faso: Cattle farmers vie for land
  • Kenya condom advert pulled after religious complaints
  • Is South Africa the odd Bric out?
  • Five shot dead in attack on SA bakery
  • Gangs unleash terror in Durban suburbs
  • SA security guard who dodged death three times is killed
  • Madagascar’s hungry eat grasshoppers
  • Peace-building courses in Rwanda help next generation
  • Egyptian journalists attacked by Muslim Brotherhood supporters
  • French Mali hostage ‘killed by al-Qaeda’
  • Zuma won’t discuss R206m security upgrade on his home
  • DRC ‘Terminator’ surrenders to US embassy in Kigali
  • Malema’s farm seized for money laundering
  • The ANC is flushing out the unwanted
  • Zambia: Rupiah Banda questioned over corruption
  • Uhuru Kenyatta to challenge ICC case
  • ANC youth league executive disbanded
  • The real story behind the WCape farm violence
  • The black, female polo player changing perceptions
  • Early HIV drugs ‘functionally cure about one in 10′
  • SA: ’28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive’
  • Peter Mutharika and others on Malawi treason charges
  • Tanzanian FA given warning by Fifa
  • Putting the Bang! into business in Tanzania
  • Nigeria pardons Goodluck ally, for stealing millions
  • Congo’s hidden cultural hub
  • Two exhumed bodies linked to Madikizela-Mandela
  • Mystery surrounding Free State website deepens
  • Claims that ANC not implicated in corruption are “disingenuous
  • Special SA Investigating Unit racked by infighting
  • SA: Immigrants broken by a heartless bureaucracy

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