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Love in a Time of HIV: A Documentary

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.02.2009 | Entertainment

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
Marcia G. Yerman

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 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Jackie Selebi, Hugo Boss, Crime, Pravin Gordham, African National Congress, Drugs, Louis Vuitton, Johannesburg, South African Communist Party, Murder, South Africa, Interpol, Anc, Harrods, Glenn Agliotti, Etienne Aigner, Canali, Drug Smuggler, Haroon Bhorat, Blade Nzimande, Selebi Trial, Home News

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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Off My Nut in Johannesburg

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Stephen Hawkins, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Time, Bookseller, Daniel Krotz, Berryville Arkansas, Books, Johannesburg, Dan Brown, Living News
Daniel Krotz

All the holy books say that the end of time is the beginning of time. The physicist Stephen Hawking says that time is a figure eight. And a local high-schooler I know doesn't know what time it is.

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SAfrican track chief keeps job after sex-test flap

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Johannesburg, Berlin, South Africa, Home News

The head of South African track will keep his job even though he admitted to lying about his role in gender tests done on runner Caster Semenya.

Athletics South Africa board member Chris Britz says Leonard Chuene retained his leadership position during a closed-door ASA council meeting on Thursday.

The move comes despite calls from the government sports ministry and several ASA opposition parties to fire Chuene.

Semenya won the 800-meter race at the world championships in Berlin in August. The IAAF said before the final they had ordered gender tests because of her muscular physique and stunning improvement in times.

Chuene repeatedly said Semenya's gender tests were done abroad. He later admitted knowing of tests conducted in South Africa.

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Q&A: Sci-Fi Director Neill Blomkamp Describes Life in District 9 As No Picnic

Brad Balfour | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aliens, South Africa, District 9, Neill Blomkamp, Sci-Fi, Peter Jackson, G.I. Joe:the Rise of Cobra, Lord of the Rings, Afrikaans, Ghetto, Johannesburg, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

"I felt like half of my mind wanted to make some serious film about these topics and the other half wanted to make a bloody genre film, "said Blomkamp. "And then I thought maybe I'll be able to do both."

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

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

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
Jonathan Kim

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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Nelson Mandela Meets With NYC Public School Students In South Africa

New York Daily News | Sindhu Sundar | Posted 08.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Foreign Language Academy for Global Studies, South Africa, New York, Queens, Nelson Mandela, Stephanie Chng, Curtis Jones, Nelson Mandela South Africa, Johannesburg, Queens New York, New York News

Twelve city public school students had a school trip of a lifetime when they flew to Johannesburg recently to meet former South African President Nels...

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Can Fashion Stimulate an Africa Renaissance?

Yomi Abiola | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style

Read More: South Africa, Fashion, Africa, Models, Fashionmodels, Fashion Week 2009, Johannesburg, Arise, Oluchi, Style News
Yomi Abiola

With all the problems that plague Africa, coupled with the current economic turbulence, people are asking if a lavish, no-expenses-spared fashion week is what the continent really needs.

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Ford Ranger Vs. Plane Ends In Draw

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 07.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Johannesburg, South Africa, Home News

We take back everything bad we've ever said about the Ford Ranger. Well, okay, maybe that's a little extreme, but we have to admit that we're pretty...

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Zuma Poised To Be South Africa's Next President

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Jacob Zuma, South African Election, South African Presidential Election, Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg, World News

KWANXAMALALA, South Africa — One-time goat herder Jacob Zuma is poised to lead Africa's strongest economic power after elections Wednesday _ a v...

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A Connection to Africa

Nicola Breytenbach | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Diamonds, Diamond Empowerment Fund, Russell Simmons, The Maharishi Institute, Africa, South African Diamonds, South Africa, The Community and Individual Development Association, Johannesburg, World News
Nicola Breytenbach

The Community and Individual Development Association (CIDA City Campus) in Johannesburg, South Africa is a beacon of hope in South Africa! It is South Africa's first free university.

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South Africa Disses the Dalai Lama: We're About Human Rights, Just Not Yours

Mary Wald | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Dalai Lama, Tibet, Tutu, TheCommunity.Com, Desmond Tutu, China, Kgalema Motlanthe, China Human Rights, Archbishop, Johannesburg, World News
Mary Wald

Like the Olympics, the 2010 World Cup has the world's attention. It also became a chance for China to step in and force its anti-Dalai Lama message onto the stage.

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The Historic Sweep of Soweto

Mona Gable | Posted 01.19.2009 | World

Read More: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Holiday Inn in Soweto, Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, South Africa, Johannesburg, Soweto, World News
Mona Gable

It's day six, or at least I think it is, of our American bloggers tour in South Africa. We just drove past Archbishop Desmond Tutu's house, the gentle Anglican cleric who preached against apartheid.

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