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FIFA accused of blocking condom distribution, safe-sex information during World Cup
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HIV prevention groups and the South African government will raise awareness by giving out hundreds of millions of free condoms during World Cup. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Featured, Public Health, World, 2010 World Cup, Africa, News You Might Have Missed, Public Health, South Africa
South Africa braces for possible uptick in human trafficking
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As South Africans play host for the 2010 World Cup, they may also inadvertently play host to human traffickers as thousands children are off school for the month-long games. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Economy, Featured, Public Health, World, 2010 World Cup, children, human trafficking
In advance of World Cup, South Africa electricity grid under pressure
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South Africa's state-owned and fickle electrical grid is likely to come under intense pressure during the June 11-July 11 World Cup soccer tournament, as hundreds of thousands of fans pour into the country during the dead of the Southern Hemisphere winter. Continue Reading →
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Condoms at the ready, South Africa prepares for crush of prostitutes
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One billion condoms may not be enough for South Africa's World Cup matches in June. With 40,000 prostitutes from Africa and Eastern Europe said to be headed to the world's biggest HIV/AIDS battleground, there are warnings of "a potential HIV time bomb." Continue Reading →
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Arts take a hit in South Africa World Cup
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A promise by the South African government to fund an ambitious, $2 million arts project in connection with next summer's World Cup has gone the way of the wind. Continue Reading →
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Mining in South Africa: Apartheid’s Legacy
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Two Italian companies are suing South Africa over a law that requires firms to sell to black investors to redress abuses of black laborers under the apartheid system. The companies say that their purchase of granite operations there occurred in 1994, after the fall of apartheid. The legacy of institutionalized racism has also taken a particularly bitter turn in the struggle over South Africa’s diamond mines, where the ethnically mixed residents of the diamond-rich Richtersvelders province are enraged by a government deal to sell mine holdings there to de Beers. The land, which was appropriated by the state in the 1920s, is claimed by residents in lieu of a $26 million settlement. But South Africa’s public enterprises minister says his primary concern is the well-being of the government-owned Alexkor mining company. Continue Reading →