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Nov 27 2021
Headline Roundup
South Africa Feels 'Punished' For Detecting Omicron Variant
South Africa said in a statement Saturday that "excellent science should be applauded and not punished" in response to the several nations across the globe swiftly authorizing temporary travel bans against the region after they detected the new Omicron coronavirus variant.
The Omicron variant has now been detected in Hong Kong, Israel and Botswana — yet many South Africans are "feeling
Axios
New York Times (News) 
Daily Mail 
Jul 16 2021
Headline Roundup
117 Dead Amid Ongoing Violence in South Africa
Riots, looting and violence broke out in South Africa over the past week after former South African President Jacob Zuma was imprisoned on July 7 for refusing to testify in a corruption inquiry. An official said Thursday that the chaos had resulted in over 2,200 arrests and 117 deaths. The same day, the South African government deployed 25,000 troops to quell the riots. On Friday, South
New York Post (News)
The Guardian
The South African
Jan 29 2021
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South Africa’s army allows hijab for Muslim women
The South African military has amended its dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear headscarves as part of their uniform, an army spokesperson said on Thursday.
In January last year, a military court dropped charges against an officer who had been indicted for wearing a hijab under her military beret.
Major Fatima Isaacs had been criminally charged in June 2018 with willful
Al Jazeera
Mar 17 2020
Background
The Story Of Africa
The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective.
Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid.
BBC News
Nov 16 2018
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Trump to Nominate Handbag Designer as Ambassador to South Africa
President Trump intends to nominate Lana Marks, a Palm Beach, Fla.-based handbag designer and a member of Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club resort, to serve as the U.S. ambassador to South Africa.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Nov 16 2018
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Handbag designer tapped to be ambassador to South Africa
President Trump has picked a deep-pocketed luxury handbag designer who is a member of his exclusive Mar-a-Lago club to be the US ambassador to South Africa, the White House announced.
New York Post (News)
Dec 10 2013
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South Africa Honors Mandela, An 'Incomparable Force Of Leadership'
Joyful, mournful and soulful, South Africans gathered to celebrate the country's emancipator.
NPR (Online News)
Dec 22 2021
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Case drop may show South Africa’s omicron peak has passed
South Africa’s noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country’s dramatic omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical experts say.
Daily virus case counts are notoriously unreliable, as they can be affected by uneven testing, reporting delays and other fluctuations. But they are offering one tantalizing hint — far from conclusive yet — that omicron
Associated Press
Nov 16 2018
Headline Roundup
Trump Taps Lana Marks, Handbag Designer and Mar-a-Lago Member, for Ambassador to South Africa
President Trump has chosen Lana Marks, a luxury handbag designer and member of his Mar-a-Lago resort, to be the US ambassador to South Africa.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Vanity Fair
New York Post (News)
Dec 04 2021
News
The Variant Hunters: Inside South Africa’s Effort to Stanch Dangerous Mutations
A few months ago, Sizakele Mathe, a community health worker in this sprawling hillside township on the edge of the city of Durban, was notified by a clinic that a neighbor had stopped picking up her medication. It was a warning sign that she had likely stopped taking the antiretroviral tablet that suppresses her H.I.V. infection.
That was a threat to her own health — and, in the era of
New York Times (News)