Dec
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South Africa Politics and News Monitor – South Africa v England – live! (Guardian Unlimited)

South Africa v England – live! (Guardian Unlimited)
Hit F5 for the latest updates or our auto-refresh button below, while you can follow our full and desktop scoreboards and feel free to email james.dart@guardian.co.uk with your musings 66th over: South Africa 189-5 (De Villiers 14, Boucher 9) Anderson hasn’t quite found his line and length from yesterday and De Villiers punches him through extra cover for four. But no …

Procter calls on South Africa to show fight (CricInfo)
South Africa’s convenor of selectors, Mike Procter, has called on the team to show their “character” after the innings-and-98-run drubbing against England at Durban

South Africa president says 2010 is year of football (Sports Illustrated)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president says hosting the World Cup will make 2010 the country’s most important year since apartheid ended in 1994.

South Africa leader says 2010 is year of football (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
South Africa’s president says hosting the World Cup will make 2010 the country’s most important year since apartheid ended in 1994. In a New Year’s message released Thursday, Jacob Zuma says South Africa already has reaped benefits ahead of the football tournament next June and July. He says construction work to build new stadiums and roads has helped reduce the impact of the global…

South Africa v England: hosts desperate for victory to banish memories of Durban (Daily Telegraph)
South Africa will be looking to Table Mountain for inspiration as they try to build something out of the wreckage of Durban.

South Africa to Cut Gasoline Prices by About 0.8% Next Week (Bloomberg)
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — South Africa said it will cut gasoline prices by about 0.8 percent to 7.86 rand a liter on Jan. 6 in the Gauteng province, the country’s main economic hub.

South Africa leader says 2010 is year of football (MalaysiaNews.net)
Amid signs the rest of the world may be recovering from the global financial crisis, Africa is still being hammered. South Africa’s economy, the continent’s largest, shrunk by another 3 percent in the…

ArcelorMittal South Africa, Pinnacle: S. Africa Equity Preview (Bloomberg)
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in South Africa. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names and prices are from the last close.

South Africa : Late Start for Crayfish Season (AllAfrica.com)
Paternoster — Long after the official opening of the crayfish season in South Africa on November 15, the boats lay idle on the beach in West Coast fishing villages like Paternoster.

South Africa v England: history points to Graeme Smith’s side for third Test (Daily Telegraph)
History points to beers, braais and a big South Africa win at Newlands.