Mercenary reveals prison hell
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nick du Toit spent five years inside a prison in Equatorial Guinea. He was beaten. He was tortured. He lost 37kg. Now he is free - but the scars may never heal. This is his story...
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New Vegan Dino Discovered
The Pink Flamingo (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
What had flat feat, was a binge eater, and liked its veggies? “…The vegetarian dinosaur, one of three discovered at the same site, was named Aardonyx celestae — the genus name... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Proof - I can still knot a tie
KeesKennis (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Which also says that you can take Keesie out. This was after the party. We have some Americans in our community and and they invited us to a Thanksgiving do. So we watched some Peruvian, Indian, Zambian, Afrikaans, American, English, Portuguese and Australian kids do Square Dancing. As with all kids, worldwide, some finished before the others. The Klipdrift was fine and we had a good time. To knot...
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Roy Greenslade: South African newspapers suffer circulation falls
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Daily and weekly newspapers in South Africa have just suffered some of the worst circulation figures in living memory. With the exceptions of the Afrikaans daily Die Son and the Zulu daily Isolezwe , all titles reported third-quarter year-on-year losses. Witwatersrand j-school professor Anton Harber said the country's newspapers are showing the strain experienced by papers elsewhere in the world....
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Day 296298 Karamea New Zealand
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tuesday November 17thWe woke to a beautiful morning in the peaceful country side. Ferdi went to feed the chickens and in return they kindly left us two eggs. We made tea and enjoyed Talitarsquos rusks while sitting on the veranda. What a way to live We feel right at home here. Dave and Deborah might be in for a surprise when they return a couple of bussitters with no intention of leaving.Fer
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'Worst Three Months for Newspapers' As Circulation Dives
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
DAILY and weekly newspapers have all lost circulation, except for the Afrikaans daily Die Son, and the Zulu daily Isolezwe, according to the third-quarter year-on-year figures released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).
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Storms may stall matric exams
IOL (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Do not risk your life to get to school for exams. That is the message from education officials in KwaZulu-Natal as the wet weather continues to cause chaos across the province [GALLERY].
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School welcomes English pupils
IOL (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hoerskool Ermelo has conditionally agreed to change it language policy to accommodate English-speaking pupils, according to a report.
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'Lovies Jenny' tells her story
IOL (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The mother of singer Robbie Klay has vehemently denied she ever had romantic feelings towards the man accused of sexually abusing her son.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 & 3.5.5 & 3.0.15 & 2.0.0.20 Multilingual & 3.7a1pre en-US
PortableAppZ (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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Fresh Apps for the iPhone (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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The Jacques rugby diary - day 6
IOL (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Senior Rugby Writer Jacques van der Westhuyzen is on tour with the Springboks in Europe - he tells us what went wrong at Wembley.
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South Africa: More Than 2,000 Zimbabweans Flee, Fearing Attacks
All Africa (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Fearing a resurgence of xenophobic attacks, around 2,500 Zimbabwean migrants have taken refuge in government buildings in De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, after some of their shacks in an informal settlement were attacked and demolished, said a police official.
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Translation Fail
...seeking serenity (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Thought I'd give Google Translate a whirl, English to Afrikaans.First sentence - perfect. Second, not so good. Third: well....!
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[BRIEF NOTE] On language shifts at universities
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Over in South Africa, the traditionally Afrikaans-medium Stellenbosch University, David Beresford reports in the Guardian Weekly , is shifting away from its traditions, with bilingual courses taking precedent over Afrikaans-unilingual courses and knowledge of the Afrikaans language no longer being a requirement for graduation. One Afrikaner historian warns that Afrikaans risks being displaced from...