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Alexds
by Alexds
I am journalist soI meet a lot of interesting people and come across some powerful sounds. Here are some
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Cacao Afrique240217
CRISE DU CACAO: Reportage chez les producteurs à San Pedro, Côte d'Ivoire. BBC AFRIQUE 24022017
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World press freedom mixdown
On World Press Freedom Day May 3, 2013 Monocle asked its correspondents for their thoughts on the issue. These are mine
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The Letterpress Company
feature about Cape Town stationery company broadcast on Monocle 24, Dec 2012
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Simone Gbagbo profile
On 23 November 2012 the International Criminal Court asked the government of Cote d'Ivoire to send the country's former first lady Simone Gbagbo for trial in The Hague. She would join her husband, former president Laurent Gbagbo, who is already a prisoner there. Simone Gbagbo's arrest warrant...
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2012 1113 ADS letterpress
CUE: The luxury goods market in South Africa is still extremely limited in size. Customers with deep pockets and a love of elegance are few and far between. And they travel widely, which tends to mean they shop overseas and order their personalised stationery from London or New York. Yet in the...
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Coerced sterilisation curtainraiser rfi
The High Court in Windhoek will on Monday morning deliver its judgment in a landmark case for African women's and patients' rights. Three Namibian women, all HIV positive and aged between 30 and 47, claim they were sterilised without prior informed consent. In the two years since the case began,...
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Gay pride rfi FINAL
Cape Town gay pride broadcast 4 March 2012 Radio France Internationale. picture shows Junior Mayema, 23, brave man
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Magic poison detector rings in Benin
With El Hadj Ajirobolohun Soro's magic poison detectors you too need never again fear being poisoned by your neighbour. The rings, sold on a street corner in Porto Novo, Benin, for 1000cfa, detect poisoned food and instantly carbonise it, as demonstration by El Hadj's helpers
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Luanda - all bling and no bang for the buck
Angola usually makes the news for its oil, diamonds and building boom. It is a country that now receives only minimal development aid from donors. Yet all is not right. In the past six months a protest movement has begun. At regular, secretly organised flash demonstrations around the country...
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Sa tourism crisis final
The South African tourism industry is in crisis. After spending millions of rands to increase its hotel capacity ahead of the World Cup last year, tourism analysts say not only is the extra capacity not being filled but visitor numbers are down on pre-World Cup figures. A recent Price Waterhouse...
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Lemur munching
Recording made in Andasibe forest in Madagascar this is the sound of a Babakoto (Indry Indry) lemur munching on a chriptocariae leaf, deep in the forest. A magical moment watching the confident animal reach for the leaf in biologist Joseph's hand. The lemur has an expressionless face and can turn...
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sounds from my garden this afternoon
one of the trees is full of birds and they're all talking to each other
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Africa's first Apps World Cape Town
Cape Town played host to the first Apps World and Social media networking show on the African continent. Here's my report in English for Radio France Internationale
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Xolisas race: cyclist with no feet finishes Cape Argus
The Tour de France may be the most famous cycle road race in the world but the biggest - by number of competitors - was held yesterday (Sunday) in Cape Town. 35,000 cyclists rode the annual 110-kilometre Cape Argus and for some it was more of a challenge than for others. Alex Duval Smith met a...
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South African HIV+ man gets compensation for illegal sacking
In a landmark South African court judgment, a horse-riding instructor who was sacked from his job for being HIV positive has won his case. The Johannesburg Labour Court on Wednesday ordered Gary Allpass's former employer to pay him compensation equivalent to a year's wages. Alex Duval Smith…
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Liberia minister at Mining Indaba Cape Town
More than 4000 delegates with links to the mining industry are meeting in Cape Town at the annual Mining Indaba. Among them is Liberian minister of mines Roosevelt Gasolin JayJay. Yesterday (Tuesday) he held a presentation at which he called on investors to come to his country to explore its full...
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Stickfighting revival in South Africa for RFI
Young Xhosas in Western Cape townships are turning their backs on gang violence, guns and knives to join clubs promoting traditional stick fighting
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