South Africa crime clouds World Cup

All eyes are on South Africa as it prepares to host the 2010 World Cup and the country wants to show that it is ready for the football event.

The government is set to deploy additional 40,000policemen to help bring security to one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

But as Haru Mutasa reports from Johannesburg, some think this World Cup could be marred by an increasing level of violence.

Dream takes off for unemployed man who built helicopter

News24 : "Rustenburg - The unemployed man who built a helicopter from recycled material outside his shack in the Siza informal settlement near Rustenburg is beaming with excitement after News24 users offered to change his life."

afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"

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