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South Africa mourns deaths of 21 teens likely killed by accidental poisoning in tavern
Members of the community and family wait for news outside a township pub as a police officer talks on a phone in South Africa's southern city of East London on June 26, 2022, after 20 teenagers died. - At least 20 teenagers, the youngest aged just 13 years, have died at a township pub in South Africa's southern city of East London, but the cause of the deaths is still unclear. Crowds of people including parents whose children were missing gathered outside the tavern located along a street in a residential township as mortuary vehicles collected bodies, according to an AFP correspondent. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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South Africa repeals some COVID-19 restrictions as fifth wave dissipates
People wearing masks on an escalator at a shopping mall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday Nov. 26, 2021. Advisers to the World Health Organization are holding a special session Friday to flesh out information about a worrying new variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in South Africa, though its impact on COVID-19 vaccines may not be known for weeks. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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Ryanair stirs fury with Afrikaans nationality test
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Dubai police arrest two Gupta brothers over South African fraud case
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 27, 2010 Atul Gupta looks on outside the Randburg magistrate court, near Johannesburg. - Two Indian-born businessmen brothers have been arrested in Dubai and are facing extradition to South Africa, where they were allegedly at the centre of a web of state corruption, police said on June 7, 2022. Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused of paying bribes for state contracts and influence over ministerial appointments in a scandal that dogged former South African president Jacob Zuma's administration. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hundreds evacuated in eastern South Africa amid heavy rains, flooding, mudslides
Waterlogged basketball courts are pictured after heavy rains in Durban, South Africa, May 22, 2022. REUTERS/Rogan Ward TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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South Africa facing new surge of COVID-19 cases driven by two Omicron sub-variants
A health care worker attends to patients at a COVID-19 testing centre in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants. Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto said that for about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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South Africa likely in new COVID-19 wave: health minister
A woman, wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19, walks through the busy Bara Taxi Rank in Soweto, South Africa, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. With declining cases of COVID-19, South Africa has ended its national state of disaster, the legal framework used for two years to impose restrictions to combat the pandemic (AP Photo/Thandiwe Garusa)
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Globe Climate: Across the African continent, climate crises inflict suffering on millions
FILE - A collapsed bridge on the Griffiths Mxenge Highway after flooding, in Durban in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Devastating floods in South Africa this week, as well as other extreme weather events across the continent linked to human-caused climate change, are putting marine and terrestrial wildlife species at risk, according to biodiversity experts. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed, File)
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Heavy rains kill 45 people in eastern South Africa
Clean up operations begin after heavy rains caused flood damage in Marianridge, Durban, South Africa, April 12, 2022. REUTERS/Rogan Ward TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Migrants flee South Africa as anti-foreigner hostility worsens
Residents listen to community leaders speaking during a protest against the rise of crime in the area in Diepsloot, South Africa, on April 6, 2022. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP) (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canadian women finish 15th in field hockey Junior World Cup
A team of junior women field hockey players arrived in Potchefstroom, South Africa last Monday to prepare for the Junior World Cup. The tournament, which was scheduled for Dec. 5-17, 2021 was cancelled due to new COVID-19 variant Omicron and the team is now stranded because of travel bans. Photos provided by team Taken shortly after arrival during practice
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South Africa ends its national state of disaster as COVID-19 cases decline
A woman, wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19, walks through the busy Bara Taxi Rank in Soweto, South Africa, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. With declining cases of COVID-19, South Africa has ended its national state of disaster, the legal framework used for two years to impose restrictions to combat the pandemic (AP Photo/Thandiwe Garusa)
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Four Bengal tigers rescued from captivity in Argentina get new home in South Africa
Amir Khalil, veterinarian and Director of Project Development at the animal welfare organisation Four Paws International, watches a tiger released from a crate into an enclosure at the Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in Bethlehem, South Africa, Saturday, March 12, 2022. After 15 years of living in an abandoned train carriage in San Luis province in the Northwest of Argentina, a family of four tigers have been rescued from their confinement by the global animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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Omicron BA.2 sub-variant of COVID-19 more infectious but no more severe, Africa’s CDC says
FILE PHOTO: An Ivory Coast fan receives the vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID -19) at a vaccination center, before watching the Africa Cup of Nations soccer match between Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast on a big screen in Abidjan, Ivory Coast January 12, 2022. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo
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South African prosecutors charge parliament fire suspect with terrorism
FILE PHOTO: Zandile Christmas Mafe, a suspect accused of breaking into Parliament when the fire started, appears in the Cape Town Magistrate Court, in Cape Town, South Africa, January 4, 2022. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/File Photo
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As South Africa’s rooibos tea trade heats up, debate brews over how to give Indigenous experts a fair share
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Corruption rampant in South Africa under former president Zuma, inquiry finds
FILE PHOTO: Former South African President Jacob Zuma sits in court during his corruption trial in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, October 26, 2021. Jerome Delay/Pool via REUTERS
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Fire reignites at South Africa’s Parliament in Cape Town
Smoke rises from the Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, Jan 3, 2022 after the fire re-ignited late afternoon. Firefighters are again on the scene after a major blaze tore through the precinct a day earlier. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
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One man held as major fire ravages South Africa’s Parliament complex
Firemen spray water on flames erupting from a building at South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town Sunday Jan. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Desmond Tutu described as nation’s ‘moral compass’ at South Africa requiem Mass farewell
A mourner touches the coffin of Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu during his funeral at the St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial equality and LGBT rights died Sunday at the age of 90. (Nic Bothma/Pool via AP)
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South Africa says data indicate country passed Omicron peak without a major spike in deaths
A man walks past a mobile COVID-19 testing station in Durban, South Africa, Friday, Dec. 3 2021. The new omicron variant appears to be driving a dramatic surge in South Africa, providing the world a glimpse of where the pandemic might be headed.. (AP Photo)
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A timeline of Desmond Tutu’s lifelong quest for equality
FILE - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu waves during a speech against apartheid, to a crowd of demonstrators, on Jan. 8, 1986, outside the South African Embassy in Washington. South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at the age of 90, it was announced on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021. An uncompromising foe of apartheid, South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression again the Black majority, Tutu worked tirelessly, but non-violently, for its downfall. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)
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Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid leader and fighter for moral justice, dies at 90
FILE - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu waves during a speech against apartheid, to a crowd of demonstrators, on Jan. 8, 1986, outside the South African Embassy in Washington. South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at the age of 90, it was announced on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021. An uncompromising foe of apartheid, South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression again the Black majority, Tutu worked tirelessly, but non-violently, for its downfall. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)
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What you need to know about COVID-19 right now
FILE PHOTO: A person walks past a mobile coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine clinic during the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant in Manhattan, New York, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
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South Africa says vaccines, prior infection levels helping keep COVID-19 cases milder during Omicron driven wave
CHINHOYI, ZIMBABWE - DECEMBER 15: A school teen gets a Covid 19 shot at Riverside Secondary School near Banket on December 15, 2021 in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe. The country has extended a series of measures, including mandatory PCR tests for arriving travelers, an overnight curfew, and alcohol bans to combat the Omicron Covid-19 variant, which was first identified in nearby South Africa. Dozens of other countries soon reported their own cases. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images)
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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses provide good protection against severe illness from Omicron variant, data show
People wait to be vaccinated by a member of the Western Cape Metro EMS (Emergency Medical Services) at a mobile "Vaxi Taxi" which is an ambulance converted into a mobile COVID-19 vaccination site in Blackheath in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. The omicron variant appears to cause less severe disease than previous versions of the coronavirus, and the Pfizer vaccine seems to offer less defense against infection from it but still good protection from hospitalization, according to an analysis of data from South Africa, where the new variant is driving a surge in infections. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
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Ottawa drops COVID-19 travel rule that rejected South African tests
FILE PHOTO: Passengers queue to get a PCR test against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before traveling on international flights, at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/File Photo
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South African doctors see evidence Omicron COVID-19 variant is milder than Delta
FILE — Melva Mlambo, right, and Puseletso Lesofi, both medical scientists prepare to sequence COVID-19 omicron samples at the Ndlovu Research Center in Elandsdoorn, South Africa, Dec. 8, 2021. Health experts still don't know if omicron is causing milder COVID-19 but some more hints are emerging with doctors in South Africa saying their patients aren't getting as sick with omicron, compared to the delta variant. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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Canadian field hockey team headed home from South Africa
A team of junior women field hockey players arrived in Potchefstroom, South Africa last Monday to prepare for the Junior World Cup. The tournament, which was scheduled for Dec. 5-17, 2021 was cancelled due to new COVID-19 variant Omicron and the team is now stranded because of travel bans. Photos provided by team Taken shortly after arrival during practice
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New Canadian COVID-19 travel rules spark turmoil at airports and criticism from WHO
People lineup to get on the Air France flight to Paris at OR Tambo's airport in Johannesburg, South Africa', Friday Nov. 26, 2021. South Africa's envoy in Ottawa is calling on Canada to support a waiver on patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines as her country copes with the fallout of its discovery of the new Omicron variant. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jerome Delay
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Canadian field hockey team gets travel exemption to leave South Africa
A team of junior women field hockey players arrived in Potchefstroom, South Africa last Monday to prepare for the Junior World Cup. The tournament, which was scheduled for Dec. 5-17, 2021 was cancelled due to new COVID-19 variant Omicron and the team is now stranded because of travel bans. Photos provided by team Taken shortly after arrival during practice
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Omicron COVID-19 variant is three times more likely to cause reinfections, new data show
A woman is vaccinated against COVID-19 in Lawley, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Scientists say it could be weeks before they better understand how dangerous the omicron variant is. (AP Photo/ Shiraaz Mohamed)