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/ 22 October 2008
A sudden chair collapse, broadcast live on television, has turned parliamentary finance committee chairperson Nhlanhla Nene into an instant web hit.
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/ 15 October 2008
The ANC not divided right down the middle, said party leader Jacob Zuma in a television interview on Wednesday evening.
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/ 5 September 2008
United States Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday fell victim to cheeky editing of his profile on Wikipedia.
As fires swept across six provinces on the weekend, staff at the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Gauteng battled to save animals from the flames.
Jozi is a dangerous city indeed, where cunning criminals now plant tracking devices in their victims’ cars — or do they?
ANC leader Jacob Zuma on Sunday laid down the law for the ANC Youth League at the organisation’s national congress in Johannesburg.
Hundreds of frightened foreigners fled to the sanctity of the Jeppe police station in central Johannesburg on Sunday morning following a night of deadly xenophobic violence that claimed at least five lives and left about 50 people injured. The atmosphere at the police station was tense, with helicopters circling overhead.
A crisis in Zimbabwe? What crisis? This question was debated by three high-ranking Zimbabwean opposition politicians at the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Critical Thinking Forum in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening. "We expect too much of South Africa," said one panellist. "There is a limit to what South Africa can do."
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/ 28 February 2008
Two University of the Free State students apologised on Thursday for their involvement in a racist video which has sparked a national outcry. RC Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe said they acted without malicious intent, and expressed sorrow for the embarrassment they might have caused any individual or group.
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/ 28 February 2008
A video made by white students that shows them humiliating black university employees on Thursday continued to draw angry protests as well as criticism that racism remains entrenched in South Africa 14 years after the end of apartheid, with the Democratic Alliance questioning the role of the Freedom Front Plus in the matter.