| November 3, 16:00 PM
, 2020 | - The Bronx Zoo lost and then found its Egyptian cobra, and South African authorities killed Fred, a baboon living at the tourist spot of Smitswinkel Bay, by lethal injection for repeatedly jumping into the cars of tourists and snatching their food and bags.
| Source 1:
Ny Daily News
Source 2:
Metro UK
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| October 4, 8:00 AM
, 2020 | - A nine-year-old boy discovered the nearly 2-million-year-old remains of a child in Cradle of Humankind, South Africa; the previously unknown hominid species walked upright with human-shaped hips but still climbed through trees on apelike arms and had a tiny brain.
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New York Times
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| November 28, 2011 | - Anti-American rallies were staged throughout Pakistan after a NATO air strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and demonstrators marched outside the UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, where the United States and Canada were stalling efforts to extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. “It’s a conspiracy against the poor,” said the Council of Europe’s rapporteur on climate change.
| Source 1:
AP
Source 2:
BBC
Source 3:
AP
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| August 1, 2011 | - Women in the remote Colombian town of Barbacoas continued to protest inadequate roads and medical care by withholding sex from their partners, and South African scientists found that elephant seal cows, who are sometimes crushed by bulls during lovemaking, use the ocean to their advantage. “Coercing a female is so much more difficult in the water because she has more options,” said one ecologist.
| Source 1:
The Guardian
Source 2:
Discover
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| July 25, 2011 | - “Rehab” singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home at age 27, British portraitist Lucian Freud died at age 88, and an asthmatic South African man presumed dead by his family woke up after nearly 24 hours in the morgue and called out for help, leading two mortuary attendants to flee the building because they thought they'd heard a ghost.
| Source 1:
CBS News
Source 2:
The Telegraph
Source 3:
The Cape Times
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| January 20, 2011 | - A French couple, members of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, died in a shootout in South Africa after killing a policeman who tried to evict them. “They said God is the sun and we are all rainbows,” said an acquaintance. “They were so respectful of life they would not even kill a snake.”
| Source:
guardian
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| November 1, 2010 | - A pastor in South Africa declared that Jesus was HIV positive,
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BBC News
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| October 10, 2010 | - Soul singer Solomon Burke died, as did the South African chimpanzee Charlie, who was an avid smoker until his death at 52.
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
New York Times
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| May 28, 2010 | - A New York community board overwhelmingly approved a controversial plan for an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center site, and a South African newspaper apologized for publishing a cartoon that depicted the Prophet Muhammad lying on a psychiatrist’s couch saying, “Other prophets have followers with a sense of humor!”
| Source 1:
AFP
Source 2:
New York Times
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| February 2, 2010 | -
South Africans celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela, and Benjamin Grundy, a Washington high school student described by his mother as a “bi-racial, mentally challenged, gay male,” claimed that school administrators were discriminating against him by limiting his cheerleading opportunities.
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
KXLY
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| September 17, 2009 | -
South Africa's sports minister threatened to start “a third world war” if hermaphrodite runner Caster Semenya was barred from competition. Later, the president of Athletics South Africa admitted that the organization had administered earlier gender tests on Semenya and that the team's doctor had recommended that she withdraw from races.
| Source 1:
The Independent
Source 2:
The Guardian
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| July 4, 2009 | - Thirty-one Xhosa teenagers in South Africa died from botched circumcisions performed without anaesthesia.
| Source:
NYT
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| November 11, 2008 | -
South African singer and longtime anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba, known as “Mama Africa,” died at 76.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 2, 2008 | - Fifteen boys were killed and 90 hospitalized in Eastern Cape, South Africa, due to botched circumcisions.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| July 1, 2008 | -
President Bush removed Nelson Mandela from the terrorism watchlist.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| June 28, 2008 | - Robert Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe since 1980, was sworn in as president after he ran unopposed and won more than 85 percent of the popular vote, a percentage roughly equal to the national unemployment rate. He called for “unity” and invited former candidate and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to attend his inauguration. “This,” said a spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), “is an unbelievable joke.” Mugabe supporters entered the house of an MDC councillor and shouted “Let's kill the baby” as they shattered the legs of his 11-month-old son, Blessing; a plan was discovered that called for 2 million MDC members to be “internally displaced”; and 3 million Zimbabweans were living in South Africa, where 62 people were killed in recent anti-immigration rioting.
| Source 1:
Times Online
Source 2:
AFP
Source 3:
CBS News
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| January 31, 2008 | - Power failures in South Africa closed mines and shopping centers for several days.
| Source:
Power Failures Outrage South Africa
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| December 11, 2007 | - Archbishop Desmond Tutu railed against the use of detention centers by the United States. “Whoever imagined that you would hear from America,” asked Tutu, “the same arguments for detention without trial that were used by the apartheid government?”
| Source:
news.com.au
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| October 23, 2007 | - The $5-million African Leadership Prize, an award designed to encourage good governance in Africa, was awarded to former Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano, who ruled his country for 18 years before stepping down in 2005. “Those who govern badly,” said an analyst at the South African Institute of International Affairs, “bag a lot more than $5 million.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 4, 2007 | - Three thousand two hundred South African gold miners were rescued without injury after a power cable accident trapped them underground; the last group of miners emerged within 40 hours of the accident, dehydrated and exhausted, singing and stamping their feet.
| Source 1:
The Canadian Press
Source 2:
BBC
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| September 27, 2007 | - Former South African President Nelson Mandela opened a shopping mall in Soweto.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 6, 2007 | - Archbishop Desmond Tutu became the patron of South Africa's Barbecue Day. “This,” he said, “is something that can unite us.”
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| September 5, 2007 | - Two women accused of casting spells on a South African school were burned to death by students on the school's football field.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| June 19, 2007 | - The South African education department announced that male students may be granted paternity leave.
- The South African education department announced that male students may be granted paternity leave.
| Source:
IOL/Cape Times
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| April 6, 2007 | - A South African farmer received a 20-year sentence for killing a man he mistakenly believed to be a baboon.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 7, 2007 | - Desperate to protect themselves from crime, many South Africans were attending martial arts classes taught by Bruce Lee's top student, Grandmaster Richard Bustillo. “I was born in 1975 and Bruce died in 1973,” said one pupil. “He was a Chinese guy but maybe he came back as an African?”
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| November 20, 2006 | - Police in the Mpumalanga region of South Africa were looking for the owner of an unclaimed penis.
| Source:
METRO.co.uk
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| November 12, 2006 | - Zama Ndebele, the wife of Premier S'bu Ndebele of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, promised to return her herd of Nguni cattle to the state in the wake of a cows-for-favors corruption scandal.
| Source 1:
Business Day
Source 2:
IOL
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| August 30, 2006 | - Female condoms were becoming more popular in South Africa.
| Source:
Mail & Guardian
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| August 19, 2006 | - In South Africa, Shlomo Goldwasser, father of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hezbollah on July 12, urged the world to defeat his son's captors. “If Israel won't finish the job, you will find them here,” he said. “They will kidnap your sons.”
| Source:
Independent Online, South Africa
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| June 7, 2006 | - The New York Times reported that tar-paper shacks have been selling briskly in South African shanty towns.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 16, 2006 | - A South African
ice cream company sprayed a ton of ammonia gas into the atmosphere, sending 100 schoolchildren to the hospital; afterwards, the company held an assembly for some of the children and gave them free ice cream. "They've been reading words like 'toxic' and 'poisonous' and obviously got quite a fright," said an engineer. "We want to enlighten them about how ammonia can be used constructively."
| Source:
Iol.co.za
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| December 21, 2005 | - In South Africa a mugger running from security guards fled into a tiger enclosure, where he was mauled to death.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| December 1, 2005 | - A South African court ruled that same-sex marriage was constitutional.
| Source:
AP
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| November 8, 2005 | - A South African woman crashed her car into an electrical substation, dislodging over a million bees, which then stung her to death.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 31, 2005 | - A South African woman tried to help a seal back into the sea only to have it bite off her nose.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| October 6, 2005 | - It was also announced that a great white shark named for Nicole Kidman had been tracked as it swam from South Africa to Australia and back. “We suspect,” said a scientist, “that she went for reproductive reasons.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 30, 2005 | - A white South African farmer was sentenced to life in prison for killing one of his black employees and feeding the corpse to lions.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| August 8, 2005 | - One hundred thousand gold miners were on strike in South Africa.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 7, 2005 | - The United States sentenced a South African man to three years in jail for smuggling nuclear bomb parts to Pakistan and India.
| Source:
IOL.co.za
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| August 4, 2005 | - Someone in South Africa was sodomizing corpses.
| Source:
IOL.co.za
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| July 28, 2005 | - In Pinetown, South Africa, two little boys found a fetus without legs or a head; police said that they found no animal saliva on the fetus.
| Source:
The Mercury
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| May 27, 2005 | - Pretoria, South Africa, changed its name to Tshwane, which means “we are the same.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 29, 2005 | - In South Africa, two men were convicted of feeding a coworker to lions.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 14, 2005 | - Zoo officials in Johannesburg, South Africa, were pressuring one of their chimps to stop smoking.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 2, 2005 | - In South Africa a goat adopted a baby rhino.
| Source:
NBC5
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| January 3, 2005 | - and gun sales in South Africa were down.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| November 23, 2004 | - An elderly South African woman was eaten by a shark.
| Source:
CNN
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| August 27, 2004 | - Sir Mark Thatcher, the 51-year-old son of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, was arrested in South Africa under suspicion of financing an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.
| Source:
BBC, Telegraph
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| July 29, 2004 | - Cemeteries in South Africa were recycling graves.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 22, 2004 | - A woman in South Africa
accidentally put a 100-year-old gold coin into a Cape Town parking meter.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 17, 2004 | - In South Africa, a man testified in court that he had killed an interior designer because she "did not make any nice comments about my place, so I went to my garage and fetched an axe."
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 20, 2004 | - Graveyards were filling up in South Africa.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 23, 2004 | - In Cape Town, South Africa, a man survived a 19-story fall from a hotel window.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 10, 2004 | -
South Africa's health minister, who has repeatedly expressed doubts that HIV causes AIDS, said that a diet with lots of garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice would help fight the disease.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 8, 2003 | - Fourteen people were arrested in Brazil and South Africa for selling human organs on the black market.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 4, 2001 | - Prime Minister Sharon said he wanted to see a million new Jewish immigrants, particularly from Argentina, France, and South Africa.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Archaeologists announced the discovery of artifacts in South Africa that establish modern human behavior in Africa more than 70,000 years ago, which contradicts the prevailing theory that such traits as symbolic thinking emerged in a “creative explosion” only after humans migrated to Europe 40,000 years ago.
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| December 4, 2001 | - People in South Africa, which has the highest rate of AIDS infection in the world, were still trying to get the government to distribute a drug that helps prevent the transmission of HIV to newborn babies; South Africa's health department asked the bureau of standards to increase the standard condom size from 16 to 18 centimeters.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Six men in South Africa were arrested for gang-raping a 10-month-old baby girl.
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| October 23, 2001 | - A new study found that AIDS is now the leading cause of death in South Africa.
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| July 3, 2001 | - A large hippopotamus killed a security guard on a golf course in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Nkosi Johnson, a twelve-year-old South African boy, died of AIDS; Nkosi once managed to shame President Thabo Mbeki into walking out of an AIDS conference after he pleaded with the government to give AZT to pregnant mothers, a course of treatment that might have prevented his own infection.
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| April 24, 2001 | - Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa's health minister, was asked what the government planned to do next, having won this important victory; she replied that actually there was no real need to use such drugs in a country with the highest rate of AIDS infection on earth.
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| March 27, 2001 | - The European Union passed a resolution calling on 39 drug companies to drop a lawsuit against South Africa in which they seek to overturn a law that would lower the price of anti-AIDS
drugs.
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| 0, 2000 | -
South African teenager Caster Semenya, who is undergoing gender verification to prove that she is a woman, won a gold medal in the 800-meter at the World Track and Field Championships in Berlin.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| December 19, 2000 | -
South African whites were being urged to admit that they were still enjoying many benefits as a result of apartheid.
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| October 24, 2000 | -
South Africans in KwaZulu-Natal were dying of cholera.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
South Africa's
Communist Party affirmed that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus; President Thabo Mbeki believes otherwise, and his ministry of health recently issued a leaflet claiming that AIDS was the result of a conspiracy between the Illuminati and space aliens.
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| September 12, 2000 | - A homeless man was discovered camping out in the Cape Town home of South African president Thabo Mbeki; South Africa's ministry of corrections said it would release 11,000 petty criminals to ease prison overcrowding.
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