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SABC

Eskom says there could be more power disruptions between 2011 and 2012, because of an expected increase in demand. The utility today announced that it's on the path to financial recovery and has made a profit of R3.6 billion, after a loss of just over R9 billion last year.

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Africa News

Prisoners in South Africa's maximum security prisons will get to watch the 2010 World Cup after Swedish firm Ericsson donated big screen televisions to a Johannesburg jail this week.

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Africa Good News

Sam Rogers, from South Africa, has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2010 Awards Ceremony.

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Africa Good News

The 25th Africa- France summit held in Nice was an opportunity for South Africa to strengthen relations based on shared interest and mutual trust, says the South African Presidency.

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Africa Good News

When the biggest names in soccer arrive in South Africa within the next few days, winning the World Cup will not be their only mission.

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Reuters

Up to 4,000 nurses and administrative workers at South African private healthcare firm Netcare could go on strike from Wednesday, marking the latest industrial action in Africa's biggest economy.

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Reuters

South Africa's COSATU trade union federation threatened on Tuesday to pull out of an alliance with the ANC if the ruling party persists with disciplinary charges against union leader Zwelinzima Vavi.

Coal of Africa's proposed Vele coal mine could increase pollution and hurt South Africa's Mapungupwe World Heritage site, the environmental minister said on Tuesday.

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Reuters

South Africa's ruling ANC will take disciplinary action against one of its most prominent members, trade union boss Zwelinzima Vavi, who accused President Zuma of not taking a tough enough stance on corruption.

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Reuters

South African security officials on Sunday denied claims in a Sunday newspaper that the country faces a high risk of a terrorist attack during the World Cup it is hosting in less than two weeks.

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press tv

South African President Jacob Zuma says the country's Black majority has not benefited from post-apartheid land reform programs due to poor management and legislation.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has invited Sudan's Omar al-Bashir to the continent's first World Cup along with the rest of Africa's leadership, but will arrest him if he takes up the invitation, President Jacob Zuma said.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The ruling ANC party dismissed threats of a national strike during the World Cup, but a fresh stoppage loomed after a miner's union said 3,000 workers would down tools at diamond producer De Beers.

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africa news

The Obama led administration has served notice of a possible terrorist attacks on US citizens during the World Cup in South Africa this June.

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africa good news

The South African government has signed a nuclear agreement with Algeria, the energy department announced on Wednesday.
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The agreement was signed in Algiers between South African Energy Minister Dipuo Peters and her Algerian counterpart Dr Chakib Khelil on Wednesday, the department said in a statement.

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AFRICA GOOD NEWS

A new collaboration between Norway and South Africa will collect oceanic data to help better understand and cope with the effects of climate change across Africa.

The Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research was launched 20 May in Cape Town, South Africa. It will gather information on the three oceans surrounding southern Africa - the South Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Outspoken South African ANC youth leader Julius Malema has emerged stronger after his rebuke by President Jacob Zuma and the ruling ANC party, he was quoted as saying in The Sunday Times newspaper.