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Travis Logie Shreds at Billabong Rio Pro in Brazil

This Durban, South African, Logie is the newest addition on the tour and everyone is taking notice.

(AMERICA DO SUL / SALEM) - Travis Logie was ripping it up today at the Billabong Rio Pro in Brazil today. Riding SUPERbrand Surfboards by Nuno Matta shaped in Portugal, this South African pro is one of the top riders competing in the circuit on European surfboards.

The world's top-ranked professional surfers are competing in this annual event that is the focus of the industry and sport and will continue to be over the next six days.

South Africa`s `Die Antwoord` is The Answer

Cape Town's Zef culture delivers a band like nothing you have ever seen.

(SALEM) - South Africa has changed in recent years- since it banned racist laws that made Blacks second-class citizens.

Now we get to see the manifestation of apartheid's aftermath - welcome to Die Antwoord, Afrikaans for 'The Answer'.

South Africa: Govt, Sri Lanka Discuss Sustainable Political Settlement

Sri Lanka will implement its LLRC and an impartial, inclusive and transparent mechanism to deal decisively with questions of accountability and justice.

(PRETORIA, South Africa BUA News) - International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, hosted her counterpart from Sri Lanka, Gamini Lakshman Peiris, on Monday, to discuss bilateral relations and the peace process in that country.

Peres briefed Nkoana-Mashabane on plans to implement the recommendations of the Sri Lankan Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) relating to human rights...

Former South African President`s Visit Should Not Be Celebrated

Mandela later connected members of de Klerk's ministry, at the very least contiguously, to attacks.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Wholistic Peace Institute is hosting a visit of the last apartheid president of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, to our city.

President de Klerk was presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and is thus deemed a spokesperson of world peace by the Institute.

Are Cellphone Masts Damaging Our Brains?

Activists say 4G has higher penetration levels into buildings, and “therefore into our bodies”.

(DURBAN, South Africa) - The ultimatum from the teachers at Eldorado Park Senior Secondary School in Joburg was clear: either the planned cellphone mast went, or they did.

For Lionel Billings, it wasn’t a hard decision to make.

GOP Candidates Wear the Jewish Kippah

Ben-Gurion was not religious, he was a convinced atheist.

(CHICAGO) - On the 38th anniversary of the death of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, the usual memorial event was held on December 1, at Ben Gurion’s graveside in Sdeh Boker, the Negev desert village where he lived during his retirement years.

Uri Avnery wrote in his Gush Shalom column, that Israeli newspapers published a picture of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s current Prime Minister, speaking “under a big photo of the late leader gazing thoughtfully into the distance”.

Overview: Israeli Spying

“ ... collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel’s sizable armaments industry.” - 2005 report

(SACRAMENTO) - One senior American diplomat explains that inside the State Department “everybody knows that Israel spies on us. When someone is caught, they’re ‘punished’ by being promoted.”

In 2006, a Pentagon judge stated categorically: “The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in the United States.”

The Story of One Palestinian Murdered by Israel

Electronic Intifada writer Linah Alsaafin (left) with Ola Tamimi (center) after Mustafa Tamimi was shot at close range by the Israeli military in Nabi Saleh village (Anne Paq/ActiveStills)

(SALEM) - Every death of every person in Palestine who perishes from violence is terrible, but the recent death of Mustafa Tamimi, who was shot in the face with a tear gas canister by the Israeli army on Friday, stands out. It begins with the dismissive comments from the Israel soldier who shot Mustafa.

All of it; the incident, the reaction... screams one word, that is apartheid.

Newt Gingrich was `Invented` - Israel was `Invented`, but Palestine is Real

Holocaust deniers have a new friend... Time to Moot the Newt - "They've had a chance to go many places..." Well yeah Newt, so do you.

(SALEM) - Newt Gingrich is claiming that the historic Palestinians, who lived under the British Mandate until 1948 as Palestinians, are an 'invented' people.

Occupy Tahrir Square vs. Occupy America

“... make no mistake, the thousands in Tahrir square will not lose hope nor can they afford to.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Egypt, a land embedded in ancient history with an old legacy of oppression and abuse of power, its people are awakening and refusing to yield to any kind of tyranny or autocracy be it of civilian or military authority.

But obviously somebody, and that somebody is unfortunately in command right now, doesn’t seem to get this message.