Johannesburg

Girlfriend's Tweet Saves Carjacked Boyfriend

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Social Media, South Africa, Tanisha Reddy, Twitter, Girlfriend's Tweet, Tweet, Police, Lynn Peters, Pigspotter, Private Security, Johannesburg, Good News News

A South African man who was carjacked and tossed in the trunk of his vehicle is safe after a tide of tweets turned in his favor. According to the D...

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Biking Soweto

Jim Calio | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Apartheid, 1976 Soweto Riots, Lebo's Bicycle Tours, Bicycle Rentals, South African Entrepreneurs, South African Tourism, Johannesburg, Soweto, Slidepollajax, Travel News

You can still see the dilapidated metal shacks that blight huge areas; they sit near elegant new homes, some worth millions.

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The Man Behind The Goldman Letter 'Always Did What Was Right'

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, South Africa, Video, Gauteng Maccabi Table Tennis Club, Latin, Wall Street Banker, Reuters, New York Times, Stanford University, Johannesburg, Greg Smith, Business News

By David Dolan and Pascal Fletcher JOHANNESBURG, March 15 (Reuters) - Greg Smith was a principled and competitive student, the kind of...

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S. African Musician Goes Back To School At 60

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Flute, Southern African Music Rights Organization, South Africa, Percy Sledge, Miriam Makeba, Wilson Pickett, South Africa's National Arts Council, Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse, Saxophone, Paul-Simons-Graceland, Hugh Masakela, Victor Masondo, Paul Simon, Johannesburg, Piano, National Senior Certificate, Arts News

JOHANNESBURG — The 60-year-old beloved South African musician shows up five days a week to sit behind a scarred desk in a bare-bones classroom, ...

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Johannesburg: An Unexpected Design Destination

Zoe Settle | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: South Africa, International Destinations, Johannesburg, South Africa Travel, Travel News

Johannesburg's reputation might be that of the gateway to a safari or a necessary first stop on a direct flight from the States, but it shouldn't be overlooked as a destination for its arts and design shopping.

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South Africa Bones Offer Evolution 'Game-Changer'

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Malapa, South Africa, South Africa Bones, Australopithecus Sediba, Evolution Game-Changer, Science, Evolution, South African Scientists, Johannesburg, Australopithecus, South Africa, Video, Green News

WASHINGTON — Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both apelike and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution's ...

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Dead Man Waking: Alive After 21 Hours In Morgue Fridge

AP | By NASTASYA TAY | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: South Africa, Video, Asthma Attack, Asthma, Weird South Africa, Fridge, Heartbeat, Morgue, Johannesburg, Sizwe Kupelo, Undertaker, Pulse, Weird News News

JOHANNESBURG -- A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge – nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health offic...

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Astoria Characters: The Internationalista

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 07.10.2011

London. Johannesburg and Nairobi. Fort Worth, St. Louis and San Diego. Tokyo and Manhattan. And Astoria. What do they all have in common? Well, let's see... Matthew Peipert.

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My Trip to Harare

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Museum, Arts Management, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Africa, Arts, Market Theatre, Political Strife, Johannesburg, Harare, Fundraising, National Arts Council, Kennedy Center, Arts News

There is clearly no lack of creativity or interest in the arts community of Harare and the other provinces of Zimbabwe, simply a lack of resources.

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South Africa's Five-Star Adventures

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Table Mountain, Mattanu Lodge, Adventure, Americans, World Cup 2010, Luxury Vacation, Hot Air Balloons, Apartheid, Travel, Kalahari Desert, Black History Month, Kimberlee, Sharks, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Diamond Mines, Luxury, Cape of Good Hope, Africa, Marine Dynamics, One, Apartheid Museum, African-Americans, Soweto, Cape Point, Train Travel, Blue Train, De Beers, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lauri Lyons, Diamonds, Tourism, Western Cape, Goodman Gallery, Shark Cage Diving, Vacation, Orient Express, Northern Cape, Safari, Wildlife, Travel News

If wild safari animals and ghosts roaming around your luxury tent isn't enough of a thrill for you, don't worry -- the South Africans have more wild activities up their vuvuzelas.

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South Africa's Sushi Scandal: A Timeline

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

South Africa's governing party has declared that eating sushi off the body of a model in a bikini is "politically incorrect." Here, a timeline of the events that have led up to today's announcement.

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South African Domestic Abuse Video Shocks Viewers (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Women's Rights, Assault, South Africa, Spousal Abuse, South Africa Rape, Domestic Abuse, Physical Assault, Abuse, Sexual Assault, People Opposing Women Abuse, Johannesburg, Rape, Powa, Video, World News

A South African advocacy group's powerful ad about the realities of domestic abuse has become an Internet sensation, the Guardian is reporting. Pro...

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South African Girl, 15, Charged With Statutory Rape After Confessing Sex Act Was Consensual

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teen Sex, South Africa, Consensual Sex, Jules High School, Teen Charged With Statutory Rape, Attack, Sexual Assault, Young Communist League of South Africa @Y:World, Johannesburg, Rape, Statutory Rape, World News

A 15-year-old South African girl who initially claimed she was gang-raped is now being charged with statutory rape after agreeing the sex was consensu...

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Train Hits Van In South Africa; At Least 9 Kids Killed

AP | ERIC NAKI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa Kids Killed, South Africa Crash, South Africa, South Africa Train Hits Van, Johannesburg, World News

JOHANNESBURG — A driver taking children to school went around a closed railroad crossing gate Wednesday, then was hit by an oncoming train that ...

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Netcare, South African Hospital, Charged in Organ Trafficking

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Kidney Transplants, Durban, Black Market, Israel, Kidneys, Netcare, And, Organ Trafficking, Johannesburg, Richard Freid, World News

JOHANNESBURG — A major South African hospital chain and its chief executive have been charged after years of investigation into a human organ traffi...

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All the World's a Stage: National Identity

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deon Opperman, Jose Luis Valenzuela, The Abbey Theatre, The Plough and the Stars, The Mandela at the Joburg Theatre Complex, El Teatro De La Esperanza, Josh of the Bushveld, Latino Theater Company, The Los Angeles Theatre Company, Sean O?Casey, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Johannesburg, Dublin, Sean Else, La Victima, Arts News

National identity. We have flags that symbolize it, wars and struggles that forge it, and stories, by way of theatre, to articulate it. Whether it's a...

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Nelson Mandela Autopsy Painting Sparks Outrage (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: ANC Condemns Painting, South Africa, Anc, Nelson Mandela, Rembrandt, Yiull Damasco, African National Congress, Condemned Mandela Painting, Johannesburg, World News

A new painting that portrays Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing an autopsy has sparked outrage from the African National Congress (ANC), South Afri...

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South African Reporter Provides The World With A Lesson On Interviewing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joburg, Sunday Times, World Cup 2010, Media Criticism, Chris Barron, Amos Masondo, South Africa, Johannesburg, Eat the Press, Media News

Andrew Sullivan and Radley Balko point their readers in the direction of this astoundingly wonderful confrontational interview between Chris Barron, o...

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An American in South Africa -- Or, Why Soccer Really Matters

David Henry Sterry | Posted 05.25.2011

We bonded when we went to see Brazil play Cameroon during the '94 World Cup. It was one of the great days of my life. It made me understand something about two worlds that I didn't know anything about.

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New Zuma Sex Scandal Mars Run-Up To World Cup

Christian Science Monitor | Scott Baldauf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South African President Jacob Zuma, South Africa, Affair @Y:World, Jacob Zuma, Johannesburg, Sex Scandal, World Cup, World News

President Jacob Zuma's family denies press reports that one of his three wives had an affair with her bodyguard, but the story is causing a stir in So...

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The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse

Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 World Cup, South Africa, Invictus, World Cup, Johannesburg, Danny Jordaan, Fifa, Mandela, Sports News

The present situation in South Africa could be called "Invictus in reverse." The coming World Cup has provoked the camouflage of every conflict to present the image of a united nation to the world.

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Combatting HIV/AIDS in Africa: Changing Behavior with Worksite Education and Testing

Bernard Pollack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Counseling, Kuki Ndlovu, Johnson Matthew Catalysts, HIV/AIDS Testing, Percy Nhlapo, Dorothy Majola, Solidarity Center, Johannesburg, Nhlanhla Mabizela, Cosatu, Numsa, Germinston, World News

The Solidarity Center is working in partnership with NUMSA to train and provide free HIV/AIDS testing and counseling to several thousand manufacturing workers in Africa each year.

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Love in a Time of HIV: A Documentary

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London, HIV/AIDS, Love in a Time of HIV, Factor VIII, Hemophiliaic, HIV Prevention, Safe Sex, Beth Jones, Johannesburg, Condoms, Nicky Lankester, Showtime, New York City, World AIDS Day, Entertainment News

The film explores three separate histories. As Jones wrote me via e-mail, "We wanted to look at the subject of HIV/AIDS in the light of people living with it, rather than dying from it."

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Selebi Trial: SA Police Chief Jackie Selebi Accused Of Accepting Designer Clothes In Drug Smuggling Scheme

New York Times | BARRY BEARAK | Posted 05.25.2011

JOHANNESBURG -- The drug trafficker and the police commissioner were once nattily attired pals, or so the allegations go. The two men would shop toget...

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ReThink Review: District 9 -- Earthlings Aren't Easy

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Reviews, South Africa, Rethink Reviews, Neill Blomkamp, District 9, Jonathan Kim, Film Critic, Immigration, Apartheid, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Movie Critic, Refugees, Movies, Johannesburg, Peter Jackson, Entertainment News

My ReThink Review of Neill Blomkamp's excellent film, District 9, and why its creativity and social/political commentary make it a modern classic.

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