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Fight for survival
Fight for survival A child tries to break an iron rod from the rubble of building in New Delhi, India, on Friday. Twenty years after the UN adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, one billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, Unicef said on Thursday. (Manish Swarup, AP)

World powers meet to discuss Iran nuclear snub

Major world powers met in Brussels on Friday to plot their next move after Iran rejected a nuclear fuel deal.

Police arrest 22 for xenophobic violence at De Doorns

Twenty-two people were arrested on Thursday night at De Doorns in the Western Cape, police said on Friday.

SA plans new nuclear power station by 2020

South Africa, plagued by chronic power shortages, plans to have the country's new nuclear power plant up and running by 2020.
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Rhema church 30th celebration

M&G journalists headed to the Rhema church's 30th anniversary celebration and interviewed founder and leader Pastor Ray McCauley. Watch the slideshow for insight into the Rhema services, Pastor McCauley's response to wealth accusations and more.

'Game over for Chuene'

The IAAF is set to boot suspended athletics boss Leonard Chuene out of the IAAF council, the Mail & Guardian has learned.

Prisons graft: Bosasa's empire of influence

The company at the centre of South Africa’s prison corruption scandal is closely connected to powerful individuals on the political landscape.

Revealed on video: Motata and Mbeki at the bar

The grainy surveillance footage picks out Thabo Mbeki at the bar. The former South African president appears pensive.

Cosatu meets to review strategy

Cosatu meets next week to take stock of its relations with the ANC and progress made in economic restructuring to benefit the country's poor.

Govt team to probe state of public hospitals

A group of senior government officials is to assess the state of South Africa's 354 public hospitals, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.
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Healing through theatre

Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women presents Serious Fun II at Sun City. This high-energy celebration of resilience is directed by San Francisco-based Rhodessa Jones, and features 25 female inmates from Diepkloof prison in Jo'burg.
Are the Springboks ready to face the music in Italy? And we release never-before-seen footage of Judge Motata shortly before his "incident". Warning: Strong language ahead.
Joy of the dead Joy of the dead
Movie of the week: Shaun de Waal reviews Zombieland a "romantic comedy with zombies"
Crunch time for Zim talks Crunch time for Zim talks
Parties are rushing to find common ground ahead of Zuma's visit next week
Dubious liaisons Dubious liaisons
Moseneke denies that 18% investment in family trust Encha undermines his judicial independence
More Transnet troubles More Transnet troubles
Former boss Maria Ramos accused of trying to block suspended CE Siyabonga Gama from succeeding her
Metro police: 'The guys who really make a difference'
Metro police: 'The guys who really make a difference'
Spokesperson: the public is not fully educated or informed on how things work within the department
Sex, abs and wonky poles
Sex, abs and wonky poles
What are you here for, I ask one group of teenagers. “Naked men!” they scream
A need for speed
A need for speed
Africa’s infrastructure needs a big shot in the arm, reports Lynley Donnelly
Vaccines run on empty
Vaccines run on empty
Severe problems with the distribution of crucial pneumonia and diarrhoea vaccines for children
Inside the Dignitas house
Inside the Dignitas house
People who travel to Switzerland to die with Dignitas are encouraged to come with family and friends
Tackling teenage suicide in South Africa
Tackling teenage suicide in South Africa
We, as a country, are failing our teenagers in a big way, writes Valencia Talane
Fixing a broken Eskom
Fixing a broken Eskom
It will take more than any individual to fix Eskom's problems -- it will need a whole country
News, not as you know it
News, not as you know it
As with eructation, satire is better out than in. ZA News is proof of that
Read in a Babylon
Read in a Babylon
A stoner who can barely string a thought together stumbles through the anthem, and we have a crisis?
Listen to the M&G podcast
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Ode to an unimportant man
Ode to an unimportant man
Poor people who die at the hands of criminals are too many and too unimportant to warrant commentary
Good lessons in any language
Good lessons in any language
Like breastfeeding, mother-tongue education is not always preferred, possible or sustainable
One way to save the world
One way to save the world
The big hurdle for a transaction tax is, and always has been, the need to get universal backing
Holding out for a hero
Holding out for a hero
When faced with villains, we’re desperate for political heroes - at a cost, writes Verashni Pillay.
Guns, drugs and Jesus
Guns, drugs and Jesus
Evangelical preachers are trying to stem the tide of killings in Rio's favelas
Theatre of burden
Theatre of burden
Sun City’s women inmates deliver a cautionary message through dance and song
New faces of militancy in Cosatu have emerged following the expulsion of Willie Madisha.
Matuma Letsoalo spoke to the ANC secretary general about what came out of the tripartite alliance summit last weekend.
More National Insight
End-of-year parties are not casual affairs, writes Helena Dolny.
Feisty grandmothers rule in Algeria, as Bongani Ncube discovered to his suprise and delight.
More Opinion
The government will get tough on companies who do not comply with affirmative action, Labour Department director general Jimmy Manyi has warned.
South Africa, plagued by chronic power shortages, plans to have the country's new nuclear power plant up and running by 2020.
Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile has stirred up a hornets’ nest over the selection of Zimbabwean national Tendai Mtawarira for the Springboks.
About 200 football matches in nine European countries are implicated in a new match-fixing scandal, German prosecutors said on Friday.
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Squabbling parties need to kiss and make up before Zuma’s visit next week, writes Jason Moyo.
Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at an airport in the Canary Islands.
More Africa Insight
A sixth of the US population is battling to put food on the table, writes Chris McGreal.
Scientists urge the world's leaders to get serious about cutting carbon dioxide emissions during the upcoming climate summit, reports Alok Jha.
More World Insight
Since his coronation as King of Britart in the early 1990s, British artist Damien Hirst has never been short of self-belief, acclaim -- or cash.
Nobu Matsushisa's famous sushi restaurants operate across five continents and now his Cape Town branch is spicing it up for 2010.
More Arts
Trevor Manuel was recently roasted for buying himself a new Seven series Beemer. Truth is, they deserve each other. No really… they do.
Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticised because of perceived unfairness.
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