The leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) in Khutsong denied claims on Friday by the Khutsong Anti-North West Forum that the party was divided about the incorporation of the town into the North West. ”As the ANC we are united in Merafong about the decision to support the government’s initiative,” said the party’s sub-regional secretary, Sanele Caiya.
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Two edited extracts from a catalogue for an upcoming retrospective look at the conflicted world of the late artist, writes Sherene Timol Seedat.
You can measure the hallucinatory experience of living in the United States according to a range of decisions that don’t matter, writes David Thomson.
A Florida teenager finally took a long breath, uninterrupted by the hiccups that had plagued her for five weeks. The hiccups stopped at about 5pm local time on Wednesday, the <i>St Petersburg Times</i> daily reported Thursday. "Jennifer Mee had a few more spasms, but then she stopped and took her first uninterrupted breaths since … January 23," the paper said.
The New South Wales Waratahs and the Western Force played out a 16-16 draw in the fifth round of the Super 14 at the Sydney Football Stadium on Friday. The Waratahs had a last-minute chance to win the Australian derby when they were awarded a penalty near the right touchline, but replacement Sam Norton-Knight took a quick tap and lost possession.
South Africa’s retail petrol prices will rise by 24 cents a litre from March 7 after a spike in global fuel prices over the past month, the government said on Friday. The retail price of 95 unleaded petrol in Gauteng province, which includes the financial hub of Johannesburg, will increase to R5,99 a litre, the Department of Minerals and Energy said in a statement.
Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet. Overseers at the University of Freiburg told the man that he would be failed if he left the room during the exam.
A new minimum wage has been set for farm workers effective from March 1, the Department of Labour said on Friday. ”They [farm workers] are now entitled to a minimum wage of R1 041 per month,” department spokesperson Zolisa Sigabi said in a statement.