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Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, who signs his work as 'Zapiro', poses for a photo next to a local newspaper at his office in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. South Africa's president has filed a $700,000 defamation suit over a cartoon depicting him with his pants undone, preparing to rape a blindfolded, female figure symbolizing justice, a lawyer said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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England golfer Lee Westwood holds the trophy after winning the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City, South Africa on Sunday Dec. 5, 2010. Westwood confirmed his year-end No. 1 ranking with an eight-shot win on Sunday.(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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A worker walks past the a red ribbon on a poster in Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday Aug. 20, 2010. The Red Ribbon campaign promotes awareness of the ongoing fight against the AIDS epidemic, and marks World AIDS Day on December 1st. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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Associated Press photographs The Aurora gold mine in Orkney, South Africa, is deserted after the mine's previous owners went bankrupt, leaving it idle.
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In this photo taken Nov 14, 2010 Equatorial Guinea's Salimata Simpore, front right, during the final of the CAF African Woman Championship in Daveyton, South Africa. The Nigerian Football Federation says it has made an official complaint to the African Football Federation that members pf the Equatorial Guinea women's team are men. (AP Photo)
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A crushed AIDS drug is shown in the palm of a smoker's hand in the Kwadebeka Township near Durban, South Africa. AIDS patients in South Africa are being robbed of their lifesaving drugs so that they can be mixed with marijuana and smoked, authorities and health experts say. (Associated Press)
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Coach Bob Bradley from the United States soccer team speaks at a press conference before their training session in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. The United States soccer team will play Bafana Bafana from South Africa on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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In this photo supplied by the Nelson Mandela Foundation former South African President Nelson Mandela, second row third from right, poses for a photograph with the South African soccer team in Johannesburg Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. The USA beat South Africa 1 - 0 in last night's Mandela Challenge soccer match in Cape Town. (AP Phoro/Debbie Yazbek-Nelson Mandela Foundation)
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United States players Eddie Gaven (11) and Juan Agudelo (17) celebrate after they beat South Africa 1-0 in an international friendly soccer match in the Nelson Mandela Challenge at Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Agudelo score the USA's winner. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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United States players, from left, Logan Pause (15), Matthew Pattison (9), Eddie Gaven (11) and Juan Agudelo (17) celebrate after they beat South Africa 1-0 in an international friendly soccer match in the Nelson Mandela Challenge at Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Agudelo score the USA's winner. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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USA's Robbie Findley, left, fights for the ball against South African Sangweni Siyabonga, right, during the Nelson Mandela Challenge at Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010.(AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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This photo supplied by Halls, Gericke and Hofmeyr (HGH) Pharmaceuticals and taken on Sept. 18, 2009 shows crops of the indigenous plant, sceletium tortuosum, being tended to in the Karoo in South Africa. The plant, that the San people, (sometimes called bushmen) have chewed to reduce stress, relieve hunger, sedate and elevate moods is to be marketed internationally. (AP Photo/Nigel Gericke HGH Pahrmaceuticals - HO)
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File-In this photo taken Friday Dec. 19, 2008, a patient lays in her bed in the hospice at the Tapalogo project in Phokeng, Rustenburg, South Africa. The bleak burden of AIDS in South Africa is extraordinary, but there is reason for hope, a researcher who has mapped the cost of controlling the epidemic said in an interview. A report Robert Hecht helped prepare, which was released Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, concludes reversing the country's deeply entrenched AIDS epidemic is "extremely difficult, if not impossible, in the coming years." The nation of almost 50 million has more people than any other country with the virus that causes AIDS, an estimated 5.7 million HIV-positive citizens. (AP photo/Denis Farrell-File)
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South African Judge Richard Goldstone's U.N. report on the Gaza conflict drew widespread criticism from the U.S. Jewish community. (Associated Press)
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Kirsten Nematandani, president for South African Football Association, right, shakes hand with newly appointed coach for South Africa's national soocer team Pitso Mosimane, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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FILE - In this Friday June 11 2010 file photo, South Africa's Siphiwe Tshabalala celebrates after scoring the opening goal of the World Cup Soccer Tournament at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg. South Africa's soccer association says the shoes Siphiwe Tshabalala used to score the first goal at the World Cup will become a "historic monument" to South African soccer. SAFA chief executive Leslie Sedibe told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, that the shoes will go on display at SAFA headquarters in Johannesburg. (AP Photo/Marcio Sanchez, File)
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South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen (right) celebrates on the 18th green with his caddie, Zack Rasego, after winning the British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, on Sunday, July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Spain's Carles Puyol, center, holds up the World Cup trophy as photographers surround him during the World Cup final soccer match between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, July 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Fireworks are seen over Soccer City stadium after the World Cup final soccer match between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Spain won its first world title after beating the Netherlands 1-0. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
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Spectators take photographs of the World Cup trophy at half-time during the World Cup final soccer match between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, July 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
