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  2. Oscar Pistorius - Wikipedia

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    Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius was born to Henke and Sheila Pistorius on 22 November 1986 in Sandton, Johannesburg, in what was then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng Province) of South Africa. [1] He grew up in a Christian home [20] and has an elder brother and a younger sister.

  3. Star (Disney+) - Wikipedia

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    Star (stylized as ST★R) is a content hub within the Disney+ [a] streaming service that launched on February 23, 2021. The hub is available in a subset of countries where Disney+ is operated. [1] In Latin America, a separate streaming service, Star+, was launched on August 31, 2021. Star features a large library of television and film content ...

  4. The Sowetan - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .sowetanlive .co .za. The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. It is one of the largest national newspapers in South Africa.

  5. Pretoria News - Wikipedia

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    Pretoria News is a daily English-medium newspaper established in 1898 in South Africa's capital city Pretoria. It is distributed in the Tshwane Metropolitan area. Pretoria News covers a range of local news, as well as national and international news, comment and analysis by experts, sport, entertainment and lifestyle.

  6. South African Astronomical Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Related media on Commons. [ edit on Wikidata] South African Astronomical Observatory ( SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The facility's function is to conduct research in astronomy and astrophysics.

  7. New Age (South African newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    New Age. (South African newspaper) New Age was an influential leftist newspaper in Johannesburg operating from 1953 to 1962. It was formed with the co-operation of a number of left-wing groups in the area; New Age received the assets of the communist Jewish Worker's Club, which had been liquidated in 1948. [1]

  8. The Florida Star - Wikipedia

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    The Florida Star was founded in 1951 by Eric O. Simpson, a veteran of national publications, to give Jacksonville its own African-American newspaper. The Star catered specifically to the city's black community at a time when other local media ignored or downplayed African-American and civil rights stories. During the 1950s and '60s it was one ...

  9. Thozamile Taki - Wikipedia

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    Country. South Africa. Date apprehended. 2007. Thozamile Taki (born 1971), known as The Sugarcane Killer, is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations. [1] On 19 January 2011, Taki was sentenced to 13 life sentences for the murders and an additional 208 years, 16 years for ...