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Caster Semenya Gender Test: Outrage, Worry In South Africa Over Report

AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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PRETORIA, South Africa — Caster Semenya had heard the taunts and whispers – that she was different from other girls. Now the most intimate...

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South African Women Still Second-Class Citizens

Alex Matthews | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

South Africa has a crisis of values in which men are brought up to believe they are entitled to treat women as objects to abuse, hurt, exploit, rape, harass, control and patronize.

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What Can Africa Hope for During Clinton Visit?

Todd Moss | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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Secretary Clinton will be leaving August 5 for a seven-country tour of Africa. The itinerary suggests that the theme will be more real politik than President Obama's recent visit to Ghana.

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Somali Refugees Fear Further Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

Mail and Guardian | PERCY MABANDU | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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Refugee camps were established in May last year to house thousands of foreign nationals displaced in an outbreak of xenophobic attacks that claimed u...