http://www.citypress.co.za/ Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:47:05 +0200 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:00:36 +0200 Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga sits alone in a plush office the size of an RDP house at the new Sol Plaatje House building in Struben Street, central Pretoria. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/OBE-gets-overhauled-20100724 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:06 +0200 Equatorial Guinea, 2004 – A man writhes in agony on the floor of a cell in Black Beach prison. His arms are twisted behind his back, handcuffs fastened so tightly they cut to the bone and rust shut as the flesh begins to rot. At night a drunken madman bursts into his cell and terrorises him with a loaded pistol, threatening to execute him. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/Friendship-forged-under-fire-20100724 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:00:36 +0200 He wants to have phone sex, she wants to leave her house without a headscarf: a Cairo play seeks to confront Egypt’s social taboos by laying bare the sexual frustrations and harassments that beset daily life. http://www.citypress.co.za/International/News/Play-seeks-to-smash-social-taboos-20100720 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:06:41 +0200 When rumours spread that foreign nationals were going to be attacked after the World Cup, Zimbabwean immigrants fled Cape Town townships. Lucas Ledwabaand photographer Lucky Nxumalo joined one family on a 1 300km truck journey to Joburg. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/News/Journey-from-fear-20100719 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:58:55 +0200 Obituary: Kenneth Harlan Simmons – For many, Professor Kenneth Simmons had become the father of the African- American community in South Africa – not only ­because he was 77 years old, or ­because he had been coming here longer than just about every other member of that group. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/A-builder-of-bridges-20100719 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:46:20 +0200 In a few months time an unwanted baby will be born in a hospital in Thohoyandou, Limpopo. Its father is one of a gang of six who took turns to rape his mother four months ago. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/SAs-rapecapital-20100718 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:45:26 +0200 It was way past my bed time but I was ready to be entertained when – five minutes in – it hit me: I didn’t care about Britney. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/Offline-and-in-tune-with-life-20100717 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:44:00 +0200 William J Astore looks at seven reasons why war taps into the wellsprings of US elites and seven ways to cap them. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/Era-of-endless-war-20100717 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:42:15 +0200 Corruption scandals, a threatened gag order on journalists and investigators and persistent allegations of Mafia ties – not to mention the long recession – have weakened Italy’s prime minister. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/Berlusconi-cronies-Inc-20100717 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:00:04 +0200 What does it mean to be a foreigner living in South Africa? A Somali businessman tells his story. http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/I-am-African-too-20100717 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:07:35 +0200