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Alex and Helen's World Tour 2008 - Around the World in 7 months, from South America to Africa !!
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Daddy Daughter Trip 2008 - South Africa
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Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
It was an eye-opening experience to participate in the BMW anti-hijacking course. At the Kyalami racetrack outside Jo’burg, I was instructed on the ins and outs of carjacking. Many carjackings are done to order, right down to the exact model and color of vehicle a customer wants. I learned of the ingenious ways carjackers foil detection. To disrupt the signals of tracking devices now installed in many...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Late one winter night I went on patrol with the cops in Hillbrow, a suburb once nicknamed the Manhattan of Africa because of its high-rise apartment blocks, hotels, and nightclubs. But Hillbrow is now one of Jo’burg’s most dangerous neighborhoods, and at night it can sometimes feel like a war zone. Much of Hillbrow has been colonized by West Africans, many of them illegal immigrants. The cops were...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa It's hard to believe it's Thursday afternoon. We left Detroit Tuesday night at 7 p.m and arrived in Johannesburgh's airport Weds night around 9 p.m. The first flight on Air France was to Paris and took about 7 hours. We have an 80 minute layover and then we took another Air France flight to Johannesburg which took 10 hours. All...
Slog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Sound Transit, this is how you design a station: The Midrand Station is part of Gautrain , South Africa's future "rapid rail link between Johannesburg, Pretoria and Joburg International Airport." The power this future railway system exerts on my imagination is the same the failed train line from Cape Town to Cairo exerted on Cecil Rhodes. Gautrain, this is the rose; dance here. (Lee Pyne-Mercier sent...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said on Friday the idea of a British soccer team playing at the 2012 London Olympics was a non-starter.
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Johannesburg metro police officer is to appear in court for allegedly being part of a car theft syndicate.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was not an easy feat for Nico Tromp, the Group Managing Director of Nictus Group, to report the sterling results, as he did, to stockholders on both the Namibian Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Security Exchange.
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | yesterday
Johannesburg - Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela formally resigned on Friday, Dispatch Online reported. The announcement was made at an African National Congress news conference in Bhisho on Friday. Economic affairs MEC Mbulelo Sogoni was named as her successor. ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the decision to replace Balindlela came after the ruling party scrutinised the situation in...
ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Deon de Lange and SAPA report from South Africa: Amnesty International has slammed the government for "forcibly" removing more than 700 refugees and asylum-seekers from the Glenanda displacement camp near Johannesburg this week. The human rights group has also called...
Hip Hop Caucus Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence. Mark Weinberg, an embassy spokesman, says that "proposed new sanctions are under review by the White House and the State Department" and that they would target "individuals we hold responsible for
OTB News (Free subscription) | yesterday
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence….
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence.
