Artists confirmed for international jazz festival in South Africa

14 april 2025 - 07:27:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Organisers of the world famous Cape Town International Jazz Festival on Sunday announced the final [...] Full text...

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2023 U-20 AFCON: 'The most important game of my life' - Gambia coach Bojang

11 march 2023 - 06:29:22
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Gambia's coach Abdoulie Bojang says the TotalEnergies Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations final against neighbours Senegal [...] Full text...

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2023 U-20 AFCON: Organisers select Best XI of the group stage

01 march 2023 - 07:04:38
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Following the conclusion of the thrilling group stage of the 2023 TotalEnergies U-20 Africa Cup of [...] Full text...

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South African liberation hero Steve Biko's former cellmate dead at 72

16 february 2023 - 11:06:25
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Prominent South African activist Peter Cyril Jones, who was with liberation hero Steve Biko, [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Prominent South African attorney dies

16 august 2022 - 17:15:28
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s Legal Practice Council (LPC) and Premier Soccer League (PSL) on Tuesday conveyed [...] Full text...

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South African veteran politician accused of racism again

13 april 2021 - 12:46:24
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Veteran South African political leader Helen Zille has once again been accused of racism [...] Full text...

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Mandela's lawyer dead at 92

10 september 2020 - 05:41:45
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tributes are flooding in from around the world for acclaimed South African human rights [...] Full text...

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South Africa: South Africa commemorates fallen rapper

14 september 2019 - 07:29:18
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA)   - The life of leading South African rapper Jabulani Tsambo who died last year will [...] Full text...

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Ramaphosa urged to prioritise apartheid-era crimes in South Africa

20 june 2019 - 13:59:03
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been urged to prioritise about 300 apartheid era [...] Full text...

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South African surgeons carry out historic operation

15 march 2019 - 11:24:26
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A team of specialists at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, have [...] Full text...

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Anger over public protector's "bizarre" ruling in South Africa

12 june 2018 - 13:14:44
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has hit a nerve by ruling that Western Cape Premier, [...] Full text...

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South Africa: President Zuma calls on South Africans to remember Steve Biko

12 september 2017 - 08:45:39
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans to remember, celebrate and preserve the legacy [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Official opposition united again after colonialism debacle

13 june 2017 - 13:24:33
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), which is hoping to unseat the ruling [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Leading politician suspended over colonialism tweet

03 june 2017 - 12:57:10
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Saturday announced the suspension of its former [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Former opposition leader faces disciplinary charges

02 april 2017 - 14:14:11
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's opposition party, Democratic Alliance (DA) on Sunday said its former leader Helen [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Official opposition moves to sanction senior official over offensive tweet

22 march 2017 - 11:28:03
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Wednesday confirmed that a hearing into the [...] Full text...

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South Africa: South Africans reflect on 1960 Sharpeville Massacre

21 march 2017 - 14:06:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africans on Tuesday marked the 57th anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, where [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Leading politician under fire over colonialism tweet

16 march 2017 - 11:04:28
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The political future of one of South Africa’s most powerful politicians is in the [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Mandela's grandson moves to restrict use of world statesman's name

04 september 2016 - 16:33:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nelson Mandela’s grandson has objected to the “Mandelalisation” of the world statesman’s name. [...] Full text...

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South Africa: How a white farmer captured Mandela's region in South African poll (Analysis by Craig Urquart, PANA Correspondent)

06 august 2016 - 13:44:07
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – While the ruling African National Congress continues to lick its wounds following the most [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Kenyan banking sector jittery after wave of Central Bank takeovers

08 april 2016 - 18:25:17
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's banking sector remained jittery on Friday, a day after the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Building where Mandela was tried in focus on Heritage Day

25 september 2015 - 10:08:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - As millions of people on Thursday celebrated South Africa's Heritage Day, the historic building [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Court blocks auction of Biko's autopsy

03 december 2014 - 09:34:00
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A court in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday blocked the auction of anti-apartheid activist Steve [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Leading South Africans salute Attenborough

26 august 2014 - 09:13:03
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has expressed his sadness at the news of British [...] Full text...

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2014 CAF Champions league prelim: Second-leg fixtures this weekend

13 february 2014 - 16:40:57
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Here are the second-leg, preliminary-round matches in the 2014 CAF Champions league which will be played [...] Full text...

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2014 CAF Champions league prelim: Results and fixtures

09 february 2014 - 09:25:47
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The following are the results of matches played across Africa Friday and Saturday in the preliminaries [...] Full text...

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2014 CAF Champions League prelim: Some first-leg results

08 february 2014 - 19:49:38
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Here are first-leg results available so far from the 2014 CAF Champions league preliminaries played across [...] Full text...

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2014 Orange CAF Champions League prelim: Friday's results

08 february 2014 - 12:36:02
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Raja Casablanca of Morocco Friday humiliated Diamond Stars of Sierra Leone 6-0 in the first-leg match [...] Full text...

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2014 Orange CAF Champions League: Weekend fixtures

07 february 2014 - 19:20:29
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Libyan football club, Ahli Benghazi Friday defeated Foullah Edifice of Chad 4-0 in the first-leg match [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Leaders address fallout from messy split

03 february 2014 - 09:50:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The leaders of two of South Africa’s most influential political parties on Monday moved [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Official opposition, DA, names Ramphele as presidential candidate

28 january 2014 - 11:04:38
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The leader of South Africa’s recently formed Agang political party Mamphela Ramphele was Tuesday [...] Full text...

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Economic emancipation should be priority for African leaders - Pres. Jonathan

07 may 2013 - 15:07:45
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Having successfully liberated the continent from colonialism, racism and apartheid, African leaders must now give the [...] Full text...

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Renowned author Ben Okri laments SA's mining tragedy

13 september 2012 - 13:00:41
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Renowned Nigerian author Ben Okri on Wednesday night delivered a stirring and poignant speech [...] Full text...

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SA commemorates Biko’s legacy

06 september 2012 - 12:58:33
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Prof. Ben Okri, one of the foremost African writers in the post-modern and post-colonial [...] Full text...

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Ex-SA police boss, Selebi, back in hospital

20 december 2011 - 08:19:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Former South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi was rushed to a Pretoria hospital [...] Full text...

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Kenya aims for rugby medal at Commonwealth Games

21 september 2010 - 16:38:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya national sevens rugby team will go for nothing short of finishing within the medals [...] Full text...

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Kenya face Scotland in IRB Sevens finals

29 may 2009 - 17:35:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- It's a race for points and summing the season in style a s Kenya takes on [...] Full text...

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Rawlings lauds Mandela, congratulates Zuma

09 may 2009 - 16:52:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana’s former President Jerry Rawlings on Saturday lauded South African legend, Nelson Mandela and called on [...] Full text...

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Kenya falls to N/Zealand in Sevens Rugby tie

17 february 2009 - 02:26:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya fell to New Zealand 7-22 to miss the IRB World Sevens Plate of the San [...] Full text...

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Kenya's Sevens Rugby team jets out to New Zealand

30 january 2009 - 19:23:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Collins Injera and Victor Oduor will be out to b etter their try scoring as [...] Full text...

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