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We spoke to some of South Africa's leading political analysts for their predictions for 2008.
While, politically speaking, it seemed that the general tone of the year had been set by the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the violent unrest that followed Kenya’s dubious elections and the pessimism surrounding the forthcoming Zimbabwe elections, it seems that South Africa’s prospects for 2008, though not without challenges, are indicative of a country that is progressing steadily.
Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of South Africa’s largest trade union federation COSATU, claimed recently that "SA’s poor were better off economically under apartheid” as he pointed to unemployment, poverty and a widening inequality between the rich and the poor. A few days prior to this, Statistics SA published their “Community Survey 2007”, a survey of 274 348 dwelling units across all provinces (the biggest survey of its kind in the country). What this Stats SA report tells of is the quite extraordinary demographic shift that has taken place over the last 13 years. In many ways we are becoming more and more like the developed world and less and less part of the developing world.
Come tomorrow and it’s a mere thousand days to go until South Africa hosts the world’s biggest sporting spectacular. In fact it’s not just the world’s biggest sporting spectacular but the biggest media event on earth.
| TREC-ing for Rhino conservationAuthor: Steuart Pennington Monday, 20 May 2013 
I recently received a letter from a colleague of mine regarding a really intrepid adventure to raise funds for rhino, as follows:
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| Backpacking from Cape Town to Addis Ababa Part 6Author: Valerie Bowden Monday, 20 May 2013 
Valerie Bowden is from Indiana in the United States. She recently graduated from Barry University and after a brief visit to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia she saved enough money to backpack from Cape Town to Addis Ababa using public transport only. At SA - the Good News we will feature regular blogs on her travels, treats, troubles and travails. We wish her a safe, intriguing and fulfilling journey.
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Steuart has done some 500 talks on South Africa's progress since 1994 and SA's prospects for the future' 