Given the challenges of financing major capital projects like power plants in the midst of the Great Recession, South Africa and the national utility, Eskom, have turned to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank for assistance in financing new electric power stations.

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Forensic experts are expected to continue examining the house in the Silver Lakes area on the outskirts of South Africa's administrative capital where Ms Steenkamp, 29, died.

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Thirty drivers were at the June finals at a vehicle-testing center on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa's capital.

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Intel Capital this year invested in South Africa and Turkey, bringing its total number of countries invested in to 51.

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There is no extradition treaty between the two countries and South Africa has policy of not extraditing suspects to countries with capital punishment.

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In the 1970s, South Africa created KwaZulu, a state for blacks in part of historical Zululand: its capital was Ulundi, where the Zulus were finally defeated.

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