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Afternoon Edition, Sunday, 18 May 2008
 Top stories
Now South Africans can't even afford to die
[ South Africa ] With the cheapest and most basic burial costing just over R4 500, South Africans - some battling to stay alive - can't afford to die. Full Story ...
'Food price anger will spark protests'


Haven or hell?
[ South Africa ] Our journalists find that life as a refugee on the streets of Durban is a daily struggle for survival that is often filled with fear Full Story ...
Scores flee as Gauteng attacks spread
Six arrested for xenophobic attacks
Five die in Joburg xenophobic violence
Foreigners in Cape fear they'll be next

Crime-fighting roadblocks get citizen power
[ South Africa ] Cape Town neighbourhood watches have declared war on criminals. Full Story ...


Stormers stuffed!
[ Sport ] The Stormers will return to Cape Town having failed in their mission to secure a Super 14 semi-final. Full Story ...
Contract clause could see Smit join Stormers
A season to savour...


Young engineers do it brick by brick
[ IOLjobs ]  A unique training programme has allowed 20-year-old Brian Mphahlele to move one step closer to realising his dream of becoming an engineer. Full Story...

Scared? Not on your Nelly!
[ South Africa ] When the photograph of a huge elephant bull in a KwaZulu-Natal nature reserve draping its trunk almost amorously across the roof of a Volkswagen Golf flashed around the country by email, cynics said it had been photoshopped. Full Story ...
    South Africa
Brown 'too traumatised'
Police have not yet been able to move in on the alleged attackers of former Fidentia boss Arthur Brown because he has not yet laid charges. Full Story ...

Three suspects killed in vigilante attacks
Whose mansion is this?
Boy, 15, 'sold' for jail rape
Street renaming irks bomber's father
    World
China fights to stave off disease
Five days after the enormous earthquake that the government estimates killed more than 50 000 people, there are rising concerns over potential disease outbreaks among the people who have lost their homes. Full Story ...

'Paparazzi harass Austrian sex slave victim'
5 computer hackers nabbed
Pope speaks of duty to convert others
Fashion gurus in tax probe: report
    Africa
'Tsvangirai's life in danger'
The Movement for Democratic Change claims that there is an assasination plot against its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai. Full Story ...

'Islamists seize Somali town'
Libya seizes 200 kilos of hashish
Nigeria's election rules laid
More charges against former Liberia leader
    Science
Astronomers mystified by 'weird' star
Astronomers are puzzled by the discovery of a pulsar with an unusual orbit never before seen in similar fast-spinning neutron stars that beam regular pulses of radio waves. Full Story ...

Breast cancer: lack of vitamin D deadly
Wildlife numbers plummet globally - WWF
Giant snake hatches 40 babies
'How in the heck did this thing form?'
Overwhelming grief: A Chinese woman shows the identity card of her dead daughter, after offering prayers at the earthquake damaged town of Beichuan in Sichuan Province. Related story Photo: AFP
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