South Africa Location Intelligence

Yuvraj Singh has also been rewarded for his outstanding performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy as the southpaw included in the T20 squad. He replaces Suresh Raina for the T20 matches against Australia.

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Earlier this year, a student at the University of Cape Town emptied a bucket of faeces over a statue of Cecil Rhodes on campus. The bronze sculpture, he and his friends maintained, was symbolic of the “institutional racism” and “white supremacy” that apparently dominate the university.

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An obese South African chef declared too fat to live in New Zealand has given up the immigration battle to return home, reports said Friday.

Albert Buitenhuis and his wife Marthie have been fighting to stay in the Pacific nation for the last two years after an application to renew their work visas was first rejected because of his weight.

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South Africa's president has appointed the experienced Pravin Gordhan as his third finance minister within a week.

He replaces the little-known David van Rooyen who had only been in the job since Thursday.

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Son Bunyola, a former vineyard and olive oil farm on the west of the island, includes an old farmhouse dating from the 1800s and a series of small villas. Set amid mountains and farmland, it also has three miles of coastline and direct access to the pebble beach.

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When he turned a single towards square leg off South Africa's Imran Tahir at 11am on Sunday, Ajinkya Rahane joined a select club of Indian batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Test match.

His century on day four of the fourth Test at the Feroz Shah Kotla came after he made 127 in the first innings against South Africa.

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China has become Africa's largest trade partner, and has just promised an impressive $60bn (£40bn) in assistance and loans to boost development of the continent.

Yet the relationship is not simply about new roads, mines and military power. Traders from across Africa now live and work in China, while tens of thousands of Chinese nationals have moved in the opposite direction.

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Doctors and social services have blamed a family's "affluent, middle class status" and cultural differences for the failure to provide appropriate care before the mother killed her three severely disabled children.

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Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s outspoken first lady who is thought to be tilting for the presidency after her husband dies, has sparked outrage for saying that if women wear short skirts they deserved to be raped.

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