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UPDATE 3-Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to "standstill"
Reuters* Mineworkers union leader demands meeting with Zuma * ANC deputy president says hard to tell what is going on * Rand slides to four-year low against dollar By Xola Potelwa RUSTENBURG, South Africa, May 17 (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's...Tags: Entertainment, Lonmin Plc, Mining, South Africa, Career and Workplace
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Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to 'standstill'
ReutersRUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's biggest platinum mining union threatened on Friday to bring Africa's No. 1 economy "to a standstill" and demanded a meeting with President Jacob Zuma, ramping up the rhetoric in an 18-month...Tags: Entertainment, Strikes, Lonmin Plc, Mining, South Africa
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Amplats says South Africa miners report for morning shift
ReutersJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) reported for work on Friday, a company spokeswoman said, despite earlier calls for a strike by some union leaders. Amplats spokeswoman Mpumi Sithole said all workers...Tags: Anglo American Platinum Limited, Strikes, Lonmin Plc, South Africa, Career and Workplace
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Chad seeks arrest of exiled president's allies
ReutersN'DJAMENA, May 17 (Reuters) - Chad has charged four allies of the country's former president with human rights abuses and issued warrants for their arrest, a senior government source said on Friday. The source, who asked not to be identified, said they...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Government, National Government, France, Butterfly Ballots
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SAfrican police: 23 youths die in initiation ceremonies involving circumcision, survival
Associated PressJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday. Police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern...Tags: Death and Dying Customs, South Africa, Abdominal Pain, Culture, Arts and Culture
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PLATINUM WEEK-South African mines cannot afford pay rises -Impala
Reuters* Tough talks to start in next couple of weeks * New AMCU union has poached members from established NUM * Anglo Platinum plans to cut 6,000 jobs By Clara Denina LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's mining industry can ill afford to offer wage...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Strikes, Lonmin Plc, Mining, Career and Workplace
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U.N. chief appoints former Dutch minister to head Mali mission
ReutersUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Dutch development minister Albert Gerard Koenders as U.N. special envoy for Mali and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the West African country. Ban said...Tags: United Nations, Western Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Ban Ki-moon
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Algeria's aging regime, restive youth makes for a volatile political mix in North Africa
Associated PressALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria. With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Africa's largest country for a half-...Tags: North Africa, Arab Spring, Algiers (Algeria), Government, U.S. Department of State
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Miners union threatens strike at South Africa's Amplats
ReutersJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum reported for work late Thursday, and a labor leader said the workers will strike on Friday in an escalation of unrest that sent the company's shares lower and the rand to a four-...Tags: Strikes, Mining, Lonmin Plc, South Africa, Career and Workplace
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Sudanese foreign minister to visit Juba on Friday
ReutersKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti will visit South Sudan on Friday, state media said, the first high-level meeting between the neighbors since Khartoum accused Juba of supporting rebels who launched a major attack three weeks...Tags: Salva Kiir Mayardit, Petroleum Industry, Sudan, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Over 20 S.African boys die in circumcision rituals -police
ReutersJOHANNESBURG, May 16 (Reuters) - More than 20 South African boys have died over the past week during coming of age rituals, police said on Thursday, and they blamed botched circumcisions as the likely cause of death. Northern Mpumalanga province's police...Tags: Death and Dying Customs, Customs and Tradition, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Travel nightmare: Dakar, Dhaka — what's the difference?
Sandy Valdivieso and her husband intended to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal. They ended up almost 7,000 miles off-course in Dhaka, Bangladesh. How something this bizarre could happen illustrates how a single mix-up on an airline's part can...
Tags: Air Transportation, Dakar (Senegal), Trips and Vacations, Travel, Bangladesh
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