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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says pupils who have not passed grade 11 would have become high school dropouts had they not been pushed through to grade 12.

Angie Motshekga: Promoting failed pupils has borne fruit

The basic education minister says failing pupils does not help them and that they should instead be supported in their areas of weakness.

Wayne Westner is best known for winning the South African Open in 1988 and 1991 and the World Cup of golf in 1996.

Police launch probe into golfer Wayne Westner’s apparent suicide

The events leading up to the former golfer’s death remain uncertain.

The wall built by the Israeli government is used not just to imprison Palestinians but also cut Palestinians off from water supplies.

Dlamini-Zuma: Let Africans move freely on the continent

The African Union Commission chairperson says countries can benefit from allowing citizens to move freely across borders.

The state-owned electricity company is set up as a public entity but it operates like a corporation, an inevitable symptom of our neoliberal age.

O’Sullivan: Mokotedi is a dishonest criminal with a badge

The Gauteng Hawks head made explosive claims of espionage and high treason against Paul O’Sullivan, a private investigator.

The committee drafted a shortlist of 24 candidates last week, from an initial pool of over 300. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

#SABC8 intend to oppose ‘unlawful conduct’ with Constitutional Court application

The journalists’ lawyers say Parliament’s communications portfolio committee refused to conduct an investigation into the SABC.

A Twitter Music app will be launched for iOS devices later this month

Twitter erupts after KZN estate agent calls black people ‘monkeys’

A Facebook comment bemoaning the "monkeys" on New Year’s Day’s beaches has left South African social media outraged.

With just 531 criminal convictions from the 42 365 complaints, either South Africans are going out of their way to tell a whole bunch of outrageous lies or the state isn’t all that interested in doing something about police brutality.

Lost gun shoots Durban Hawks into controversy

Controversy shrouds the appointment of the Hawks head in Durban, who got the job despite a pending criminal case for allegedly losing his firearm.

UKZN students could be forced to buy laptops

Amid nationwide protests over university fees, it has been revealed that laptops could become compulsory for first and second-year UKZN students.

The SANDF has withdrawn all charges against Lieutenant Colonel Christine Anderson and the co-accused who were indicted for colluding in the landing of a private jet at a Gupta family wedding in 2013.

Hilton College boys in hot water over ‘mock rape’ pic

A group of Hilton College pupils are in hot water after a picture depicting a “mock rape” went viral on social media on Thursday.

Four South Africans still trapped in quake-hit Nepal

While South Africans are trapped on a mountain pass north of Kathmandu, an SA humanitarian rescue team has been delayed in leaving the country.

Mohamed Bin Hammam at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on March 18 2011.

Rhodes statue to be removed from UCT, and Mugabe gives his opinion

The University of Cape Town’s council ruled that the statue of Cecil John Rhodes, the centre of much debate over the last few weeks, must be removed.