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The US Consulate in the Sandton area of Johannesburg is closed on September 22, 2009 after the United States closed all its government facilities in South Africa at least for one day, due to concerns raised by the regional US security office. View Photo »
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The US Consulate in the Sandton area of Johannesburg is closed on September 22, 2009 after the United States closed all its government facilities in South Africa at least for one day, due to concerns raised by the regional US security office. View Photo »
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The US Consulate in the Sandton area of Johannesburg is closed on September 22, 2009 after the United States closed all its government facilities in South Africa at least for one day, due to concerns raised by the regional US security office. View Photo »
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Municipality workers demonstrate through the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, as they press their demands for better pay, Thursday, July 30, 2009. The workers are on the fourth day of a strike demanding a better pay increase. View Photo »
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A protester shouts and gestures during a strike in Johannesburg July 27, 2009. View Photo »
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Protesters chant slogans during a strike in Johannesburg July 27, 2009. View Photo »
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Protesters chant slogans during a strike in Johannesburg July 27, 2009. View Photo »
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Children gather to plant a tree in Johannesburg, Thursday, July 19, 2009, in an event organized by the City Parks to celebrate former president Nelson Mandela's birthday. Mandela turns 91 on Saturday. View Photo »
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Brazil's Luis Fabiano attends a media conference in Johannesburg June 27, 2009. Brazil will play against the U.S. on June 28 in the final of Confederations Cup soccer tournament. View Photo »
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Brazil's Felipe Melo smiles during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, June 27, 2009. Brazil will face the US in the Confederations Cup final soccer match in Johannesburg on Sunday. View Photo »
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Brazil's Maicon looks on during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, June 27, 2009. Brazil will face the US in the Confederations Cup final soccer match in Johannesburg on Sunday. View Photo »
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Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar attends a media conference in Johannesburg June 27, 2009. Brazil will play U.S. on June 28 during the final of Confederations Cup soccer tournament. View Photo »
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Brazil soccer player Kaka arrives at a gym in Johannesburg June 23, 2009. Brazil will play South Africa on June 25 during the semi-final of Confederations Cup soccer tournament. View Photo »
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Brazil's Ramires smiles during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Brazil will face South Africa in a Confederations Cup soccer semifinal match in Johannesburg on Thursday. View Photo »
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Brazil's Lucio looks on during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Brazil will face South Africa in a Confederations Cup soccer semifinal match in Johannesburg on Thursday. View Photo »
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Brazil's Luis Fabiano speaks during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Brazil will face South Africa in a Confederations Cup soccer semifinal match in Johannesburg on Thursday. View Photo »
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Brazil's Luis Fabiano speaks during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Brazil will face South Africa in a Confederations Cup soccer semifinal match in Johannesburg on Thursday. View Photo »
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Brazil soccer player Ramires attends a news conference in Johannesburg June 23, 2009. Brazil will play South Africa on June 25 during the semi-final of Confederations Cup soccer tournament. View Photo »
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Brazil's Luis Fabiano walks at a hotel's entrance in Johannesburg June 22, 2009. Brazil will play South Africa on June 24 during the semi-final of the Confederations Cup soccer tournament. View Photo »
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Brazil's Kaka takes a break in a hotel in Johannesburg June 22, 2009. Brazil will play South Africa on June 24 during the semifinal of the Confederations Cup soccer tournament. Picture shot through glass. View Photo »
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Johannesburg, also known as eGoli (place of gold), is the largest and most populous city in South Africa. The city is affectionately known as "Jo'burg", "Jozi" and "JHB" by South Africans. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng Province, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and fourth largest economy in Sub-Sahara Africa. Full Article
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Egypt national football team player Mohammed Zidan arrives at Johannesburg's Oliver Tambo International airport on June 11, 2009 ahead of the June 14 FIFA 2009 Confederations Cup.
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Charl Fourie, cooperating with the South African police, demonstrates an anti-hijacking "Blaster" flame-thrower in Johannesburg in this December 11, 1998 file photo.
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Between the stadiums in Cape Town and Johannesburg, there is a 1,696-metre altitude change ... If you need your goalkeeper in the World Cup, you should examine the geographical circumstances.
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Having been here in Johannesburg, I have genuinely begun idolizing Aishwarya Rai. She is remembered even today as the most successful Miss World ever!
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Malema, whose recent acquisitions include a Johannesburg north townhouse, a Range Rover SUV and a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG, took offence when delegates attending the SACP congress at the Turfloop campus of the University of Limpopo in Mankweng booed him and called him a mouthpiece for capitalists.
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Moran takes us on a ride from Johannesburg to Colorado to backstage on Broadway, weaving a tale of midlife hilarity and heartbreak as he uncovers the unexpected connections between a New York actor and an African refugee, between rage and forgiveness, laughter and liberty.
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Surely, with airlines charging in excess of R600 in fuel levies in some instances, Comair cannot claim that an additional R57 in passenger service charge will cause a mad panic with passengers dashing between Cape Town and Johannesburg in their cars
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If you have a Johannesburg-based business, with suppliers or clients in Cape Town, you can pay less than the cost of a local call every time you phone those numbers
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Our new Metro rate means that you can call a Johannesburg number from Cape Town for less than the cost of a local Telkom land line call.
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Lack of basic items such as plaster-of-paris and other life-saving tools have become the norm in hospitals including the Chris Hani Baragwanath and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic hospitals. The state of affairs in these hospitals is not acceptable and cannot be allowed to persist.
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We are planning to open repo offices in London [ Images ], Toronto, Johannesburg and a branch office in Belgium. We are planning to raise $500 million under a medium-term note programme by the end of this financial year to fund our global operations. The money would be raised from the overseas market b...
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As an off-spinner, he was tall, flighted the ball well and there was a lack of spinning options in South Africa. I organised for him to go to Johannesburg with his dad to meet [South Africa's cricket board chairman] Ali Bacher and maybe get the whole picture. But he made a decision to leave for another ...
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In camps like this what we try and do is get guys in who haven't been around before to come so if they are called up it's not like going in totally cold ... It's a good chance to allow Graeme Smith and Mickey [Arthur] a chance to have a look at them. He had a good season last year and I've seen him bowl...
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It is alleged that eight passengers, including the driver and a minor, were travelling from Zimbabwe to Johannesburg when their car flew over the cliff before it hit the river
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Part of the traffic agreement stipulates that Emirates are not permitted to offer a fare for a Frankfurt- Johannesburg routing if they undercut the Lufthansa fare.
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Right through to the Round of 16 - where we might well meet England - we'll be within a coach ride of the action, which vindicates our decision to base ourselves in the beating heart of the Cup in Johannesburg
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The sectors will be operated by SAA aircraft on the Golden triangle, which include flights between Johannesburg to Cape Town, and to Durban as well as between Durban and Cape Town.
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We settled on the Johannesburg/Pretoria area early on for two reasons
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Of all the factors that will persuade people to come here, the quality of the pitch is one that we can control ... We have been lucky with the altitude and the fact that we are close to a lot of the World Cup venues in Rustenburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg. The quality of the pitches we can certainly co...
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Yet another sign of a wasted opportunity came in the bear hug with which FIFA president Sepp Blatter greeted former FA chief executive Brian Barwick at the Soccerex conference in Johannesburg. Barwick, one of English football’s best networkers, was not even deemed worth a place among the bid’s 70-odd am...
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If you travel on the train from Johannesburg to Cape Town and you have a case to report you go to the police station, you go to the charge office. If you can point out the individual, they will go to arrest him and put him in jail.
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Since Qatar Airways flies direct to Doha from Johannesburg, organizing a stopover in Qatar for a few days, then on to Europe for example, makes it very convenient for planning an incentive trip.
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What we know for sure at this stage is that South Africa will be the seeded team in Group A among the World Cup's eight groups of four teams - and the hosts will play the tournament opener at Johannesburg's awesome Soccer City Stadium on June 11
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We saw a couple of places in Johannesburg and Pretoria and then went to Kimberley, Bloemfontein and Rustenburg. We need to choose our World Cup headquarters
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He said he ... was going to pack his bags for Johannesburg where he would stay for the next two months, before emigrating to Thailand.
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The Harare-Johannesburg route will represent our second phase but for now we want to complement Air Zimbabwe on the Harare Bulawayo route. Ideally we want to create a local market for our business first before venturing outside the country so our next stage could be Harare-Bulawayo-Johannesburg
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in effect, Lufthansa is able to set fares unilaterally on the Johannesburg route ... It just may be relevant that the South African market is a very valuable one for Lufthansa and the carrier may be planning to use its [superjumbo] A380 on the route around the time of next year’s World Cup.
SOURCE: The National Newspaper
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