December 3, 2010 /
Untold Stories
by mjeevaratnam
Inspired by the World Cup, South Africans engage in local development initiatives.
November 12, 2010 /
Untold Stories
by mjeevaratnam
In South Africa, the legacy of the 2010 World Cup will be written by young people - playing soccer while learning life skills and fighting disease.
November 9, 2010 /
by mjeevaratnam
During the summer of 2010, the world flooded South Africa through ticket turnstiles or television sets for the highly-anticipated FIFA World Cup. How is the nation reacquainting with daily life now...
July 14, 2010 /
Untold Stories
by Susana Ferreira, Dominic Nahr
By Monday, the morning after the World Cup final in South Africa, the tension that had been building for weeks had already broken.
July 14, 2010 /
Untold Stories
by Susana Ferreira, Dominic Nahr
A group of girls from the Musina rape survivors’ shelter are clustered in the courtyard, giggling and smiling in the soft late afternoon sunshine.
July 12, 2010 /
Foreign Policy
by Susana Ferreira, Dominic Nahr
Late one brisk night in mid-June, Bongani Mdiki was having a beer at Willie's Tavern in Diepsloot, a township north of Johannesburg, South Africa, when men burst in to break his head.
June 29, 2010 /
Untold Stories
by Susana Ferreira, Dominic Nahr
It’s sometime past 8 a.m. on a Friday morning in Musina, a town about 11 miles from the Zimbabwean border, and we’re breakfasting with our fixer Godknows (or “Godknows the Entertainer,” as he...
June 23, 2010 /
by Susana Ferreira, Dominic Nahr
Those attending the 2010 World Cup in South Africa reveled in that country's triumphant emergence as a multiracial democracy. They may have missed a darker story -- the abuse and marginalization of...
May 10, 2010 /
Des Moines Register
by Philip Brasher
Delmas, South Africa - The bitter battle that seed giants Monsanto Co. and Pioneer Hi-Bred wage for the hearts and pocketbooks of farmers doesn't end in the United States.
May 6, 2010 /
Des Moines Register
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