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Police Tuesday patrolled a South African platinum mine shut down by the world's third largest platinum company Lonmin after clashes between rival unions killed 10, including two police officers.

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A defense lawyer for the South African man accused of being hired to kill a Swedish bride says the defendant suffers from blackouts and seizures. The newlywed's British husband is accused of arranging the killing.

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Nine members of a vigilante group guarding against cattle theft were shot dead in South Africa and some 30 were missing after a revenge attack by villagers, local media reported Saturday.

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A South African man fractured his arm after a catamaran crashed into a whale off the eastern port city of Durban but the Leviathan was unhurt, an official said Saturday.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — People slowly came outside despite the cold wind Tuesday across South Africa, pointed their mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall that fell on much of the country.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday called on South Africa, the continent's leading democracy, to play a more influential role in African and global issues.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Regulators fined South African telecommunications company Telkom SA Ltd. $54.8 million on Tuesday for "bullying" its competitors with a monopoly hold on the country's Internet access and other services.

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Snow flurries blew through South Africa on Tuesday, closing several border crossings with Lesotho and dusting parts of the country in white as residents poured into the streets to watch the snowflakes fall.

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South Africa's public broadcaster announced Monday it will launch a 24-hour news channel to compete with independent television.

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Five men were shot dead and 17 were injured after an attack on a traditional coming-of-age ceremony in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, police said Monday.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The head of the U.S. Export-Import Bank says the U.S. will offer South Africa a $2 billion loan for renewable energy ventures.

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QUNU, South Africa (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited with Nelson Mandela at his home on Monday to pay her respects to the aging South African icon.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Nelson Mandela on Monday at his rural homestead where South Africa's first black president is living out retirement far from the public eye.

20120806
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to meet with South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela on Monday, the State Department said, hours after her arrival on the latest leg of her Africa tour.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The African National Congress' "moral authority has been eroded" by a string of corruption allegations, Ireland's former president said Sunday, telling South Africa's governing party to back away from a proposed official secrets law and confront poverty and inequality in the nation.

20120805
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South Africa unveiled its latest monument to Nelson Mandela on Saturday, a new statue along a rural highway marking the spot where he was arrested 50 years ago for his struggle against apartheid.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Friday sought to reassure foreign ambassadors about the country's political stability ahead of the ruling African National Congress elective conference in December.

20120801
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South Africa's jobless rate dropped slightly from 25.2 percent to 24.9 percent in the second quarter of 2012 with new employment created in the formal sector, official data said Tuesday.

20120801
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Nobel literature prize winner Nadine Gordimer poured scorn on South Africa's education system on Tuesday as "a wreck" over the failure to deliver textbooks to thousands of public schools.

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Africa needs more infrastructure to connect its 54 states if greater political integration is to be achieved, the African Union's new top executive said Sunday.