Topic: South Africa
South African customs authorities on Wednesday confiscated five million rand (685,000 dollars, 500,000 euros) worth of counterfeit football apparel related to the FIFA World Cup, a spokesman said. Piles of apparently fake national jerseys for England, Brazil, France, Portugal and South Africa were found at a warehouse in the port city of Durban, where they had been smuggled ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Black Eyed Peas, Shakira and Alicia Keys will be among scores of music stars performing at a concert on the eve of the soccer World Cup in South Africa, organizers said Wednesday. The concert in South Africa's biggest black township Soweto will be on June 10, a day before the start of the month-long World Cup ...
Police used rubber bullets and water cannons Wednesday to disperse thousands of high school students protesting a bail hearing for a South African hip-hop artist accused of killing four children while drag racing on drugs. Molemo Maarohanye — who is known as "Jub Jub," which means Marshmallow ...
