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South Africa
Hand signals and Nobel Prize winners: Soweto by foot
The immensely poor and often dangerous South African township of Soweto played a fairly significant role in the formation of the nation. Rebecca Arnold went for a walk around it.
Wallabies finally break their 47-year altitude drought
A last-gasp Kurtley Beale penalty kick was enough for the Wallabies to finally break their altitude hoodoo in South Africa. As Spiro Zavos writes, the importance of the victory cannot be overstated.
South African plonk nothing to whine about
While the World Cup has been winning plaudits for bringing a divided nation closer together, South Africa’s wine industry is also beginning to overcome its colonial heritage after enduring years of apartheid trade restrictions.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: from a sea of slums, to brick built suburbs and the shadows in between
People advise those who are embarking on a South African trip not to visit Cape Town first, and they’re right. Once you’re here you have no desire to leave and the rest of the country is bound to be, well, another country.
Wine: it’s not white or red, it’s black and white
The wine industry has always been a very white industry with white winemakers and white customers. But will sponsorship of the World Cup by a wine label help bridge the racial divide?
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: sun sets on Bafana Bafana, but the party’s just begun
South Africa’s first goal came when I was halfway between the Formule One motel and the town centre of Nelspruit — navigating through dusty warehouses and car parts showrooms, whole areas thrown up from prefab metal in the last decade or so.
World Cup: What legacy will FIFA leave for Jo’burg’s townships?
Fittingly for such a complex nation, South Africa is providing one of the most interesting World Cup host nation tales yet, off the pitch at least, writes Oliver Milman.
South Africa: not just racism and slums
Australia is out of the hosting race for the 2018 World Cup, but dreams aren’t yet over for South Africa, where the Cup kicks off tonight. Can the influx of foreign fans change people’s perceptions of poverty-stricken Africa?
World Cup: 
Hey South Africa, you’ve got a bad altitude
When it comes to high altitude games that are scheduled during the World Cup, teams best brush up on their aerodynamic physics. It’s the first cup in 24 years being played significantly over sea level.
World Cup: 
South Africa’s poor have been left offside
The FIFA World Cup may be in South Africa, but the idea that it will “give something back” to Africa is rubbish. With 40% unemployment, South Africa needs more than a sporting carnival for white tourists.
revealed Israel has nukes — it tried to sell them to apartheid South Africa
Busted: Israel has nuclear weapons — and the Guardian has the documents to prove it: it tried to sell them to South Africa in the 1970s.
Footballs wives indulge in poverty porn
The BBC is sending over a collection of famous English WAGs to report on the slums of South Africa. Oh good, because we don’t need real journalists and only want to know about HIV children when they are near fake tan.
Joe Hockey: The day I attended a white supremacist rally
Joe Hockey recounts his bizarre trip to South Africa in 1990 where race issues were at boiling point and Hockey played voyeur at a rally led by recently murdered white supremacist leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.
2010 resolution: beat the Saffa gameplan
It’s undeniable, 2009 rugby was the year of the Saffas; Super 14, Tri-Nations and the Lions. What’s also undeniable was the extreme game-plan that the Springboks employed along the way. How can it be beat in 2010? asks Matt Gagger.
Who’s eating Madagascar’s lemurs?
Madagascar’s lemurs are one of the area’s biggest tourist drawcards, but illegal loggers and starving locals are hunting the endangered primates for their meat, whilst corrupt police and politicians turn a blind eye.
Wankley Awards: Daily Tele‘s hermaphrodite
exclusive
The Daily Tele has broken a whopping world exclusive today: South African runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite… maybe someone should tell her?
Africa’s economies need to start competing
The Global Competitiveness Report had mixed results for Africa: 13 countries were better than the year before while ten had slipped back. But the region’s relative financial competitiveness is still poor, says The Economist.
Why would Canada grant refugee status to a white South African?
By granting a white South African refugee status, Canada fails to acknowledge that racial discrimination is outlawed in the South African constitution and that crime affects all colours.
Animals are content, locals not so much
The tourists might love the African safari animals, but the historical eviction and exclusion of indigenous people from nature reserves dims the ‘Big 5’ excitement glow.
For Sale: Gandhi’s house
Mahatma Gandhi may not have been a man known for his material possessions, but now you can own a piece of his history, with his former home in Johannesburg up for sale.
We jail black men five times more than apartheid South Africa
In the Northern Territory, 83 per cent of the prison population is Indigenous, while Western Australia jails black males at more than eight times the rate of South Africa during Apartheid.
Letter from...: Johannesburg, where fear equals profit
South Africa is a country that has a huge industry based around a culture of fear, writes Australian expat John Downie from Johannesburg.
Jacob Zuma’s three first ladies
The question that has South Africa’s media all of a twitter is: “Who amongst Jacob Zuma’s three wives will be the country’s next first lady?”
South Africa desperately needs a viable Opposition
South Africa faces major challenges, and they can can only be surmounted by the emergence of a strong opposition.
