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Charleston Regional Business Journal - Fri Mar 19, 3:08 pm ET
A coffee shop that has become a local favorite among college students and professionals working in downtown Charleston has a new owner and a new direction after the founder moved to South Africa and closed a spin-off location in Mount Pleasant.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer - Thu Mar 18, 8:02 pm ET
Oprah Winfrey has rearranged her television production schedule in preparation for spending two weeks in Philadelphia fending off defamation charges.
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Bloomberg - Wed Mar 17, 6:03 am ET
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- South African retail sales contracted at a slower pace in January as consumer confidence improved and job losses eased. Sales fell an annual 1.7 percent after declining a revised 3.8 percent in December, Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa said on its Web site today.
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Chicago Tribune - Thu Mar 18, 9:45 am ET
— Talk about missed opportunities. It is incomprehensible that the Metropolitan Opera did not earmark for movie theater or TV broadcast its company premiere of Shostakovich's satirical "The Nose." For if there's anything the Met has presented recently that cries out for visual documentation, it's this wildly imaginative new production by the famed South African artist William Kentridge.
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Bloomberg - Tue Mar 16, 1:18 pm ET
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index gained 219.72, or 0.8 percent, to 28,252.59 in Johannesburg. The following were among the most active stocks in the South African market today.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Fri Mar 19, 4:13 am ET
LIMPOPO PROVINCE, South Africa -- The baby rhino, an orphan, had barely been weaned. Her horn was only a few inches long. But that didn't stop the poachers from hacking it off. David Uys, 33, had helped raise the rhino after her mother was killed by lightning.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Mar 18, 9:10 am ET
Tiger Woods' return at the Masters after four months of self-imposed exile, will create a circus atmosphere that will test his ability to perform under maximum pressure, PGA Tour players said.
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International Herald Tribune - Thu Mar 18, 3:35 am ET
A show by a legendary trumpeter celebrates the music of the migrant workers who converged in South Africa from different parts of the continent to dig for gold.
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Tonic - Fri Mar 19, 1:57 pm ET
The celebrity line-up for the World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert has been announced.
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INO News - Thu Mar 18, 4:13 pm ET
(RTTNews) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday survived a no confidence vote called by opposition parties after his ANC party used its overwhelming majority in the country's parliament to defeat the motion by a huge margin.
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Gaylord Herald Times - Fri Mar 19, 2:12 am ET
JOHANNESBURG — The hallways of the Johannesburg Middle School looked noticeably different in the month of February.
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Seattle Times - Thu Mar 18, 11:07 am ET
South African President Jacob Zuma said Thursday he believes he made great progress in his first trip to Zimbabwe as chief mediator between members of the fragile power-sharing government.
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The Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Fri Mar 19, 6:28 am ET
CELIA W. DUGGER A show by a legendary trumpeter celebrates the music of the migrant workers who converged in South Africa from different parts of the continent to dig for gold.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Fri Mar 19, 2:23 am ET
PARIS -- In 2009, as global markets grappled with the economic downturn, watch auctions had a surprisingly strong year.
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Bloomberg - Thu Mar 18, 6:18 am ET
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- The rand’s strength has been caused by “significant capital inflows” into South Africa, Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Renosi Mokate said at a conference in Johannesburg today.
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Standard-Examiner - Thu Mar 18, 11:48 pm ET
The songs of the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo started in founder Joseph Shabalala's dreams. read more
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Bloomberg - Thu Mar 18, 11:33 am ET
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Naspers Ltd.’s newspaper and online news unit sued Eskom Holdings Ltd. to disclose the details of contracts under which BHP Billiton Ltd.’s southern African aluminum smelters are supplied with power at a discounted rate.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Mar 18, 5:53 am ET
Pakistan on Thursday paid glowing tribute to their former cricket coach Bob Woolmer on the third anniversary of his death, saying his progressive coaching made a huge impact on the game.
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ABC News - Thu Mar 18, 11:14 am ET
Oprah Winfrey, can be sued, defamation, federal court, sex scandal, harpo
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The Santa Ynez Valley News - Fri Mar 19, 10:25 am ET
Walter J. Thomson, founder of the Rancho Felicia breeding program in Santa Ynez, died Feb. 1 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, after a long illness, with his wife Mary Jean at his side.