- 1. Tunisia
2. Sicelo Shiceka, Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde
3. U2
4. A tornado
5. Michael Jackson
6. Natalie Portman, Black Swan
7. The King’s Speech
8. Nobel prize for literature
9. Athol Trollip
10. Cassel Mathale
11. Julius Malema
12. Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi; sex
13. Conference of the Parties
14. Muammar Gaddafi (he wrote The Green Book)
15. The Amazon rainforest
16. Windows 7.5 “Mango”
17. The hacker collective that claimed responsibility for hacking the website of Sony Pictures and briefly bringing down the CIA’s site
18. Anonymous
19. Anton Hammerl
20. Dali Mpofu
21. (a)
22. Jimmy Manyi
23. Victor Matfield, Bakkies Botha, John Smit
24. Osama bin Laden
25. News of the World
26. Rupert Murdoch
27. The three new heavy elements found this year
28. Li Na
29. Its sales of e-books (for its Kindle reader) exceeded those of all its other books combined
30. Andries Tatane
31. Republic of South Sudan
32. International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
33. Schabir Shaik
34. Torture chambers for workers
35. Brigalia Bam
36. Baby bottles
37. The Golden Rabbit
38. (c)
39. Julius Malema’s son and his controversial trust fund
40. Protection of State Information Bill
41. Press freedom; October 19
42. On that day Parliament voted to adopt the secrecy Bill
43. Ben Turok, Gloria Borman
44. David Goldblatt
45. Right2Know, the coalition campaigning against the secrecy Bill
46. United Christian Democratic Party
47. University of Zululand, Walter Sisulu University, Tshwane University of Technology
48. Zambia
49. David Tlale
50. Nelson Mandela
51. Fikile Mbalula, sports minister
52. (c)
53. Nyotaimori (body sushi)
54. Sex
55. Playboy
56. Mogoeng Mogoeng
57. Mogoeng Mogoeng
58. Johnny Molefe; Tshwane University of Technology
59. Julian Barnes
60. Apple
61. South Korea; 2202 kilobytes per second
62. Yolanda Botha
63. The Pottermore fan website
64. Daniel Radcliffe
65. She was shot in the head
66. Ahmed Rushdie
67. Donald Trump’s
68. Prince Albert to Charlene Wittstock
69. Pippa Middleton, sister of Kate, who married Prince William in April
70. Former English rugby captain Mike Tindall, husband of the Queen’s granddaughter, Zara Phillips
71. The (able-bodied) IAAF World Championships
72. Honshu, Japan
73. Janice Linden
74. The Dalai Lama
75. Commission of inquiry into the arms deal
76. Bryce Lawrence
77. Helen Zille
78. Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj
79. Synap Forte
80. Annual national assessments (of school grades one to six)
81. The United States’s space shuttle programme — they were the first and last commanders
82. Ruud Krol; Orlando Pirates
83. Benni McCarthy
84. The uprising against his rule in Libya, which was due to host the tournament, led to South Africa’s selection as the venue — and host countries qualify automatically
85. National health insurance
86. Four; Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Gauteng, Free State
87. The Donen commission’s
88. Media24, the Johannesburg bookshop’s holding company
89. Apple
90. 5%
91. Cellphones
92. Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder
93. Willem Heath; head of the special investigating unit
94. Nuclear reactors
95. Hugh Masekela
96. The city’s rates-billing chaos
97. Trevor Manuel
98. Kader Asmal
99. Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
100. Both accused Strauss-Kahn of rape
101. M-Net’s Idols
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