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AFRICA INVESTMENT-Africa's taste for a top tipple draws in luxury brands
ReutersBy Tim Cocks and David Dolan LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG, June 14 (Reuters) - With its rows of wooden shacks selling street food and cut-price haircuts, Lagos island's McCarthy Street isn't the kind of place you'd think to raise a glass of bubbly. But turn into a...Tags: Africa, Lagos (Nigeria), Nigeria, Restaurants, Diageo Plc
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In South Africa, talk of Mandela's mortality
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The desk is spotless and books neatly line the shelves in Nelson Mandela's office at a Johannesburg-based foundation that carries his name, but the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader hasn't worked there...
Tags: Africa, Rentals, Racism, Prisons, Nelson Mandela
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Lay preacher turned union boss wages S.African class war
Reuters* Preacher's son angered by poverty, income disparities * Evangelical style appeals to downtrodden miners * Investors take notice as AMCU dominates platinum belt * Wildcat strikes have cost billions, led to credit downgrades By Ed Stoddard and...Tags: The Salvation Army, Africa, Lonmin Plc, U.S. Congress, Gold and Precious Material
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Motorcycle accident kills Johannesburg man in Otsego County
OTSEGO COUNTY — A single motorcycle accident Sunday morning killed a Johannesburg man. According to the Michigan State Police Gaylord post, Harry Eugene Helgeson, 55, was traveling northbound on Crapo Lake Road near Lovells Road in Chalrton Township...
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Africa in slow motion on two little wheels
ReutersBy Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, June 10 (Reuters) - It sounded like a shotgun: bang, bang, bang. The back wheel swirled in a slalom and my Vespa scooter came to an abrupt stop. Not even halfway through my two-wheeled trip across parts of Africa and...Tags: Africa, Eastern Africa, Mountains, AIDS, Landforms
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Nelson Mandela hospitalized in serious condition with lung infection
JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized in serious condition with a lung infection, according to government officials here, the latest in a worrisome series of medical ailments plaguing the nation's...
Tags: Africa, Gallbladder Disease, AIDS, BBC, U.S. Congress
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Nelson Mandela's condition 'serious but stable'
JOHANNESBURG --South Africa’s beloved former president, Nelson Mandela, is in a hospital in serious condition with a lung infection, according to South African government officials, the latest in a worrying series of lung problems. South...Tags: Peru, Government, Africa, Gallbladder Disease, AIDS
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South Africa: Mandela taken to hospital
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela is in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a lung infection, the government said Saturday, prompting an outpouring of concern from admirers...
Tags: Africa, FIFA World Cup, Television Industry, Nelson Mandela, U.S. Congress
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Nelson Mandela, 94, hospitalized in 'serious' condition
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a "serious but stable" condition on Saturday after being taken to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said. The 94-year-old, who became...Tags: Africa, Entertainment Events, FIFA World Cup, Nobel Prize Awards, U.S. Congress
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South Africans count the cost of global currency shifts
Reuters* Importers jack up prices as rand plunges * Even South African exporters bemoan weak rand * Possible Fed shift affects millions from Brazil to Poland By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG, June 7 (Reuters) - When South Africa's rand tumbled to a four-...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Africa, Emerging Market, Money and Monetary Policy, Economy, Business and Finance
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South Africa: $1,057 round trip from LAX to Johannesburg
Here's a great fare from LAX to Johannesburg, South Africa, on United or Lufthansa: $1,057 round trip, including all taxes and fees. It is subject to availability. You must stay over a Saturday night but may not stay longer than three months. Departures...
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S.Africa's Zuma takes a drubbing for run on rand
Reuters* Intended economy pep-talk slated as limp, ineffective * Rand sinks to four-year lows after media briefing * Zuma pleads "report nicely about South Africa" * Facing election, ANC battles economy, labour woes By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, May 31...Tags: Africa, Lonmin Plc, Venezuela, Nelson Mandela, U.S. Congress
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