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    World President Zuma Pays Back $542,000 Public Funds Spent Refurbishing His Private Home

    South African President Jacob Zuma has paid back $542,000 of public money spent refurbishing his private home, his office said Monday, in a controversy that has dominated his second term in office. The country’s highest court found earlier this year that Zuma had violated the constitution by...
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    World Pistorius : Judge Dismisses Prosecutors’ Appeal Against 6-Year Sentence

    Oscar Pistorius may not be getting a longer jail term as Judge Thokozile Masipa has rejected an application by the State to appeal the initial 6-year murder sentence. Dismissing the appeal, Judge Thokozile Masipa, said the state’s appeal to extend the six-year sentence against the...
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    Business Nigeria Will Bounce Back As Largest Economy in Africa - Udoma

    The Federal Government has stated that the country would soon bounce back as the largest economy as been holding the position until South Africa displaced her. Using the Gross Domestic Product at the end of 2015, published by the International Monetary Fund, the size of South Africa’s economy...
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    Metro Nigerian Businessman, Ikejiaku Chinedu Beaten To Death in South Africa

    The Nigeria Union in South Africa on Wednesday confirmed the killing of a Nigerian businessman in Limpopo Province of South Africa on Tuesday. Collins Mgbo, Secretary of the Union`s chapter in Limpopo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, that Ikejiaku Chinedu...
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    World Oscar Pistorius Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison For Murder of Reeva Steenkamp

    South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to six years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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    World Oscar Pistorius To Be Sentenced Today For Girlfriend Murder [LIST OF Trial Timeline]

    Former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is set to appear in court today, July 6 to be sentenced for the murder of former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Today's sentence marks the latest chapter in a lengthy and polarizing legal battle. On Feb. 14, 2013 Pistorius fatally shot his then-girlfriend Reeva...
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    Business 10 African Countries With The Biggest Economies in 2016

    The size of a country's economy is based on its Gross Domestic Product, GDP. The country with the largest economy in the world is the United States with a GDP of $18tr (that's massive). Next is China whose economy is as big as $11tr. Here's a list 10 African countries with the biggest...
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    World Girl Friend Murder: Oscar Pistorius Walks In Court With Stumps [SEE PHOTOS]

    Oscar Pistorius teetered pathetically on his stumps in front of a packed court room in Pretoria Wednesday in a desperate bid to convince the judge he was too vulnerable to have killed his girlfriend intentionally. The athlete known as the Blade Runner looked humiliated as he was asked to remove...
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    World Oscar Pistorius: Reeva's Father Cries, Requests Public Display Of Daughter's Photos

    South African athlete Oscar Pistorius must pay for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, her father has told a judge, breaking down in tears. Pistorius was found guilty of murdering Ms Steenkamp after a court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict. The sentencing hearing - expected to...
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    Politics Nigeria's Former Ambassador Murdered in Abuja

    Immediate-past Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador S.S Yusuf, was murdered in the early hours of yesterday by yet-to-be identified assassins. Oche Andrew told Sun newspaper that when he visited the scene of the incident in Zone 6 District of Abuja, the former ambassador was...
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    Metro Pastor Climbs Over Church Members With Car [SEE PHOTOS]

    The controversial South African clergy, Prophet Penuel, on Friday asked his followers to lie on the ground, while he drove his over. This was at a crusade organized at the Kameelrivier B stadium hall in South Africa. The prophet recently forced his subjects to eat grass, clothes...
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    World South Africa: 20-yr Old Mum Sentenced for Attempting to Sell Baby on Internet

    A 20-year old mother in South Africa has been given a five-year suspended sentence for trying to sell her 19-month-old baby boy on the internet for $340, a justice official said on Thursday. The 20-year-old mother will not spend time in jail, but will live under house arrest for three years...
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    Sports South Africa: Minister Ban 4 Sport Federations from Bidding for International Tournaments [SEE LIST]

    South Africa's sports minister has banned four of the country's sport federations from bidding for major international tournaments after they failed to create enough opportunities for black players. Rugby, cricket, athletics and netball are the affected federations. The South African Rugby...
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    World South Africa's President, Zuma Survives Impeachment Plot

    South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday survived an impeachment vote in parliament launched after the constitutional court ruled he had ignored an order to repay state funds spent on his private home. The big majority of the African National Congress in the 400-seat assembly ensured...
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    World South Africa's Jacob Zuma Faces Impeachment

    South Africa's parliament is due to vote on an opposition-sponsored motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma. The Democratic Alliance (DA) said he was no longer fit to govern after the country's highest court ruled last week that he had breached the constitution by failing to repay public money...
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    World South African Court Orders President Zuma to Repay State Funds

    South Africa’s Constitutional Court has ordered President Jacob Zuma to repay some of the $16 million in public funds used for upgrades at his private home. The 11 justices of the Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that the President should reimburse some of the sum spent on the...
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    Sports South Africa Paid $10 Million Bribe To Host 2010 World Cup - FIFA

    FIFA has launched a legal battle to claim more than £100 million from corrupt officials and admitted for the first time that South Africa paid bribes for votes for the 2010 World Cup. In a legal submission to US authorities, they have openly accused South Africa of paying a US$10 million bribe...
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    World South Africa: Heartbreaking As 7 Members of Same Family Was Buried Same Day

    It was a pathetic scenes in Reagile, near Koster in the North West, as the coffins of seven victims of an alleged arson attack were lowered into their graves yesterday. Along with the tears of sad mourners came emotional pleas from speaker after speaker for women to speak out against domestic...
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    World South Africa: 17-Year-Old Pregnant Girl Stoned to Death by her Boyfriend

    Nomfusi Dlekedla, 17 was allegedly stoned to death by her boyfriend in Palm Ridge, South Africa, on Friday, March 11. Her heartbroken father, Nikiwe Dlekedia, 65, from Greenfields in Ekurhuleni told Daily Sun SA that his daughter was six months pregnant. "When we went to his place on Saturday...
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    World South Africa: Court Withdraws Mandela Grandson Rape Case

    A South African court Wednesday temporarily abandoned a rape case against the grandson of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela after the prosecution brought an application to “provisionally withdraw prosecution.” Mbuso Mandela, 25-year-old was accused of raping an underage girl at a pub in...
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