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News South Africa History: South Africa’s ‘moral compromise’: Why more than 300 apartheid-era atrocities remain unsolved

Published on: Wednesday 07 August 2019
South Africa’s ‘moral compromise’: Why more than 300 apartheid-era atrocities remain unsolved
News source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/south-africas-moral-compromise-why-more-than-300-apartheid-era-atrocities-remain-unsolved/2019/08/07/d76daa50-b493-11e9-acc8-1d847bacca73_story.html

In a move welcomed by victims’ families and South African civil society ... These cases can contribute to a kind of revision of history, and I mean that in a very positive sense.” But time is running ...

News South Africa History: South Africa’s state owned companies: a complex history that’s seldom told

Published on: Thursday 18 July 2019
South Africa’s state owned companies: a complex history that’s seldom told
News source: http://theconversation.com/south-africas-state-owned-companies-a-complex-history-thats-seldom-told-120152

Though formed by the state, Eskom and Iscor enjoyed very little state support in their infancy. To survive, they had to cooperate with the private sector companies they were meant to compete with.

News South Africa History: Allison Levine, Please The Palate: South African wine redefined

Published on: Wednesday 17 July 2019
Allison Levine, Please The Palate: South African wine redefined
News source: https://napavalleyregister.com/wine/columnists/allison-levine/allison-levine-please-the-palate-south-african-wine-redefined/article_686037af-ca19-5e08-98ad-58d64b3f7ae9.html

Or perhaps it is bulk wine, inexpensive wine or wine with animal labels. South Africa has a 400-year-old history of making wine and while it may be “old-world,” South Africa is in many ways ...

News South Africa History: What Canada and South Africa can teach the U.S. about slavery reparations

Published on: Monday 15 July 2019
What Canada and South Africa can teach the U.S. about slavery reparations
News source: http://theconversation.com/what-canada-and-south-africa-can-teach-the-u-s-about-slavery-reparations-120318

By bringing the issues into the open, the process allowed South Africa to come face to face ... of Canada was established to document the history and impact of the country’s residential school ...

News South Africa History: Africa: Donor-Funded Journalism Is On the Rise in Africa - Why It Needs Closer Scrutiny

Published on: Sunday 07 July 2019
Africa: Donor-Funded Journalism Is On the Rise in Africa - Why It Needs Closer Scrutiny
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201907080061.html

Analysis - An enormous and increasing portion of the foreign development aid coming into Africa annually is for media development. Foreign aid funds diverse projects, ranging from investigative journalism in Nigeria, to stories on Chinese building projects in Kenya, or health reporting in South Africa.

News South Africa History: The Latest: South Africa 144-2 after 25 overs vs Australia

Published on: Saturday 06 July 2019
The Latest: South Africa 144-2 after 25 overs vs Australia
News source: https://www.nptelegraph.com/sports/national/the-latest-south-africa---after-overs-vs-australia/article_7eb46f7a-cd00-5c2d-8e04-e3e2ed4f48a9.html

South Africa captain Faf du Plessis is 35 not out ... Also, teammate Mitchell Starc needs four more wickets to become the fifth bowler to reach 50 in World Cup history. Sri Lanka leads India 4-3 in ...

News South Africa History: Woeful West Indies and sorry South Africa - Cricket World Cup report card

Published on: Sunday 07 July 2019
Woeful West Indies and sorry South Africa - Cricket World Cup report card
News source: https://sports.yahoo.com/woeful-west-indies-sorry-south-121542349.html

Even for a country with a long history of Cricket World Cup calamity, South Africa will look back on this campaign as a particularly miserable one. From AB de Villiers' attempted retirement U-turn ...

News South Africa History: 'First time in history': 50 percent women in South Africa cabinet

Published on: Thursday 30 May 2019
'First time in history': 50 percent women in South Africa cabinet
News source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/time-history-50-percent-women-south-africa-cabinet-190530054605366.html

Cyril Ramaphosa is the sixth democratically-elected president of South Africa [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters] South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has brought the numbers of women appointed in his new ...

News South Africa History: South Africa: Draft Traditional Laws Reimpose Colonial Logic

Published on: Monday 10 June 2019
South Africa: Draft Traditional Laws Reimpose Colonial Logic
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201906100638.html

Analysis - Draft laws currently before the president closely resemble previous versions of colonial and apartheid laws that locked African people into “tribal” reserves, under the authority of despotic forms of rule legitimated in the name of “tradition”. This was a colonial perversion of precolonial forms of politics that sought to encase African people in fixed and authoritarian ideas of “tradition”.

News South Africa History: South Africa makes history as women make up half of cabinet for first time

Published on: Wednesday 29 May 2019
South Africa makes history as women make up half of cabinet for first time
News source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/africa/south-africa-gender-balanced-cabinent-intl/index.html

(CNN)Women will now make up half of South Africa's new cabinet for the first time in the country's history. President Cyril Ramaphosa who announced the move on Wednesday said the decision was to ...

News South Africa History: South Africa v India: Virat Kohli's men aiming to add insult to injury

Published on: Tuesday 04 June 2019
News source: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/south-africa-v-india-virat-kohlis-men-aiming-to-add-insult-to-injury/ar-AACokEJ

South Africa have lost back-to-back games in the same World Cup for just the second time in their history. They have never lost three in succession within the same tournament. - The Proteas have won ...