The Soweto wine festival gets bigger every year, reaching new lovers of the drink in South Africa’s biggest township – and beyond. We captured the buzz and the festivities surrounding many Sowetans new drinks of choice.
Acid mine drainage (AMD) water cannot be used for agriculture, you can’t drink it and you can’t bath in it. It contaminates clean underground water and will eventually escalate the cost of water. Watch our video to see AMD’S impact on the environment.
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/ 7 September 2010
A strategic national plan for the mining sector needs to be developed before looking at nationalisation of mines, says Joel Netshitenzhe.
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/ 7 September 2010
The National Prosecuting Authority withdrew all charges against <i>Sunday Times</i> investigative journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika on Tuesday morning.
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/ 7 September 2010
Deadly protests that paralysed Mozambique’s capital last week were spurred by an SMS in Maputo, signalling the power of new technology.
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/ 7 September 2010
Police National Commissioner Bheki Cele on Monday night denied lying to Parliament about the rentals of two buildings that amounted to over R700m.
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/ 7 September 2010
Up to 50 were arrested on Monday in Swaziland, the day before a planned protest to call attention to human rights abuses in the country.
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/ 7 September 2010
Floodwaters have displaced nearly 16 000 people in north-eastern Ethiopia, the United Nations said on Monday.
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/ 7 September 2010
New Zealand’s second-biggest city, Christchurch, struggled to get back to business on Tuesday as aftershocks caused more damage.
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/ 6 September 2010
South African public sector workers suspended a pay strike on Monday as it entered its fourth week, union officials said.
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/ 6 September 2010
A headcount to identify possible ghost employees and verify qualifications in the KwaZulu-Natal education department has been completed.
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/ 6 September 2010
The Competition Commission has referred a complaint of collusive tendering and price-fixing in the tyre market to the Competition Tribunal.
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/ 6 September 2010
A man was set appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning in connection with the theft of Blue Bulls player Bees Roux’s credit card
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/ 6 September 2010
Public service unions were expected to announce on Monday if a new wage offer had been accepted which would end the national strike.
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/ 6 September 2010
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Dr Zweli Mkhize on Sunday denied any involvement in the alleged R200-million tender fraud.
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/ 6 September 2010
Former police national commissionerJackie Selebi was set to return to court on Monday to try and appeal his corruption conviction and jail sentence.
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/ 6 September 2010
Salary increases for ministers and top government officials should be frozen in order to reduce the income gap, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal said.
A massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud on Sunday, killing at least 22 people, with dozens more feared dead.
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/ 6 September 2010
The first meeting between Pakistan and England since fixing allegations plunged cricket into crisis began under appropriately dark skies in Cardiff.
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/ 5 September 2010
An urgent meeting to discuss the documentation of Zimbabweans living in South Africa has been planned for this week, Home Affairs said on Sunday.
There are frightening parallels but ultimately the buck stops with the people.
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/ 5 September 2010
Gunmen shot dead six people and injured 33 in clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region on Saturday, peacekeepers said.
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/ 5 September 2010
Workers continue to believe in the ANC government despite it being slow in addressing inequality and injustice, the Numsa president said on Saturday.
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/ 5 September 2010
I remember a time when Sony dominated the gadgetry business, when it was a synonym for elegant design and advanced functionality.
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/ 5 September 2010
Science fiction writer Larry Niven shrewdly observed: "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space programme."
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/ 5 September 2010
Skirmishes broke out at the first public signing for Tony Blair’s memoirs, with shoes and eggs hurled at the former prime minister.
Mozambique police kept a close watch over the capital Maputo on Saturday after three days of riots over food and fuel price hikes.
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/ 4 September 2010
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Friday launched an angry attack on "doomed" US-brokered Middle East peace talks.
The African National Congress-led tripartite alliance was not collapsing, President Jacob Zuma said in Durban on Friday.
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/ 4 September 2010
A United Nations monitoring team looking into recent attacks in eastern DRC has documented sexual attacks against 28 youths, including one boy.
Cricket council rebuts conspiracy charge as players accused of spot-betting scam are interviewed by police under caution.
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/ 4 September 2010
After violence in Africa and protests in Egypt, Serbia and Pakistan, the United Nations are to urge action on the rising cost of food.