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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 5:33 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The rand fell after a report showed South African retail sales contracted for a ninth straight month and as Greece’s rating downgrade increased concern that fallout Dubai’s debt rescheduling may spread to other emerging markets.
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FOX 12 Idaho - Wed Dec 9, 6:50 am ET
South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport, race and Nelson Mandela will tell the world about the country's history of struggle and triumph despite somecriticism that the lead roles are played by American actors.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 9:33 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- South African inflation will probably exceed the central bank’s 3 percent to 6 percent target range for the next two years, a survey by the University of Stellenbosch’s Bureau for Economic Research showed.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 12:18 pm ET
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell 245.82, or 0.9 percent, to 27,144.49 in Johannesburg. The following were among the most active stocks in the South African market today.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 3:09 pm ET
Oscar-winning star Morgan Freeman said Tuesday he felt he did "a good job" portraying Nelson Mandela in a film about the former South African president's appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
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MSNBC - Wed Dec 9, 1:10 pm ET
South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport, race and Nelson Mandela will tell the world about the country's history of struggle and triumph.
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Seattle Times - 44 minutes ago
Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood's long relationship bears fruit in the new movie "Invictus," which tells the story of Nelson Mandela's role in a South African rugby team's unlikely season.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 1:55 pm ET
Three South African police officers were arrested after a woman complained that they had stolen her marijuana, SAPA news agency reported on Monday.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 6:18 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The rand strengthened versus the dollar, reversing an earlier 0.5 percent decline. South Africa’s currency traded 0.2 percent stronger at 7.5275 by 12:48 p.m. in Johannesburg, from a close of 7.5461 yesterday. Earlier it traded as weak as 7.5862, the worst level since Nov. 27.
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 3:10 pm ET
(RTTNews) - After a slight slip in early European session, the US currency surged up against the South African rand in New York deals on Tuesday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 5:26 am ET
South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport and togetherness in racially divided South Africa provides a timely lesson as the country prepares to host next year's World Cup.
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CBS News - 40 minutes ago
MoneyWatch.com: No One Knows for Sure, But Bullish Case Remains Compelling
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 10:08 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Absa Capital , the investment banking unit of Barclays Plc’s Absa Group Ltd. , is hiring bankers from Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. as it builds an equities trading business to expand its services.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 11:03 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- SABMiller Plc said the value of a stake that will be sold to black investors increased by 22 percent after its share price rose and the number of participants climbed.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 3:18 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Pick n Pay Stores Ltd. fell the most in almost seven weeks as the company faces a Dec. 11 strike by members of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 8:48 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The rand weakened after reports showed contractions in the retail and manufacturing industries are continuing, adding to concern the currency’s 25 percent rally this year may slow South Africa’s recovery from recession.
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Black Voices - Wed Dec 9, 9:38 am ET
On the outskirts of Cape Town In the the township of Khayelitsha, lesbians who dare to come out to their community are being violently hauled off the streets and raped by cloaked men in order to "correct" their behavior. Earlier this year, Eudy Simelane , former star of South Africa's acclaimed Banyana Banyana national female football squad, was found dead in a creek on the outskirts of ...
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Entertainment Weekly - Wed Dec 9, 1:51 pm ET
Lisa Schwarzbaum: I hate songs in non-musical movies -- especially dramas -- that tell us what to feel
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 12:54 pm ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar pared its drop against the euro, Australian currency and Norwegian krone as Standard & Poor’s cut Spain’s credit rating outlook, discouraging demand for higher-yielding assets.
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PRI Public Radio International - 1 hour 12 minutes ago
South Africa has the largest number of HIV-infected people on the planet, but the country is taking aggressive new steps to fight AIDS.