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The Tamil diaspora in South Africa has sought strong international action against the Sri Lankan government for "atrocities" against the country's minority Tamil community.
| | It had a special screening in Britain's House Of Lords and now South African Indian producer Junaid Ahmed's More Than Just A Game, a film on football as a way of retaining some sanity among political prisoners, is expected to attract a great deal of attention at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.
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A group of fruit and vegetable hawkers here are taking the local municipality to court in an effort to retain the 100-year-old Early Morning Market that was started by the first indentured labourers from India who opted to remain in the country after their contract as sugarcane farm workers ended.
| | A Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader, who was released after 18 months in a Malaysian jail, has denied the government's charge of having terror links, saying "ours is a people's struggle, we are not terrorists".
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Six South Africans of Indian origin have been included in the cabinet of new President Jacob Zuma, including the much-spoken about Pravin Gordhan as finance minister and Ebrahim Patel as minister of economic affairs.
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A Tamil priest who conducted South Africa's first known gay wedding by Hindu rites has gone underground as upset community leaders slammed the elaborate wedding of two young men, complete with embossed invitations, outfits from India and one tying a necklace with a pendant of Lord Ganesha on his partner.
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Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Oscar-nominated award-winning music director A.R. Rahman are among the Indian dignitaries who are to be invited to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival here of the first indentured sugarcane labourers from India on Nov 16, 2010.
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Barack Obama's election as US president has made him an idol in his father's homeland Kenya, with his pictures gracing calendars, vehicles and the walls of many homes.
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The business trip just a month before he was due to retire was Anil Gunness' last. The CEO of the State Bank of Mauritius was one of the 183 killed in the Mumbai terror attack that also targeted the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel.
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India-born steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has been named the richest person in South Africa for the fourth consecutive year on the annual 'Rich List' compiled by the weekly Sunday Times.
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At a time when banks and financial institutions are grappling to cope with the current financial crisis, a community bank for South Asians in New Jersey run by Indian Americans seems to have benefited from the meltdown.
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The Diwali spirit seems to have survived the global financial crisis here with South African Indians splurging on luxury sweets, lamps and gifts and getting together to celebrate the festival of lights.
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Around 18 Indians are among 22 crewmembers on board a ship that was hijacked by pirates Monday in the Gulf of Aden near the Somali coast, an official has confirmed.
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Three men were shot dead and two left injured after an argument between a group of Indian and white visitors to a bar here, allegedly over the size of genitals.
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