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Battle for Scorpions not yet over
Johannesburg businessman Hugh Glenister has instructed his legal team to apply to the Constitutional Court for an order to prevent the government from disbanding the Scorpions.…
Court ruling on Scorpions expected next week
Johannesburg businessman Hugh Glenister will likely hear next week whether his court bid to stop the government from disbanding the Scorpions has succeeded. The Pretoria High…
New train service launched between Jo’burg, Pretoria
From Pretoria to Johannesburg in just under an hour is what Metrorail’s new Business Express service promises. The service was launched on Thursday by Transport Minister Jeff…
Gold Fields: ‘If we can’t mine safely, we won’t mine’
Gold Fields will shut down all operations at its South Deep, Kloof, and Driefontein mines in order to conduct an inspection of the ropes on mine hoists. This follows the deaths…
Zuma seeks common ground on affirmative action
Common ground on affirmative action should be found, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told a largely white Afrikaner gathering on Thursday night. He told union…
Experts: Pupils’ pledge a good start, but …
The pledge the government intends having all schoolchildren recite during morning assembly is a good start, but more is needed to instil values in children, experts said on…
Don’t look now, but Tito’s drenched in sweat
Press photographers were again barred from attending a press conference where South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Tito Mboweni announced the latest repo-rate decision on…
Govt outlines plans for power crisis
Switch off your lights is what the government is urging South Africans to do to immediately address what it calls a ”national electricity emergency”. On Friday, Public…
From cannibalism to cricket – all in a day’s work
”At least they have stopped eating other people, so our work here is done,” a young South African Air Force pilot remarks casually at Kamina in the Democratic Republic of the…
SA’s South Pole adventurers to heat things up
Two intrepid adventurers are planning to swap extreme cold for extreme heat after becoming the first South Africans to walk unsupported to the South Pole. Speaking only hours…
Mbeki appoints acting police commissioner
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has been granted an extended leave of absence, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. Speaking at the Union Buildings in Pretoria,…
Zuma preaches unity, warns others
Unity was the order of the day when African National Congress president Jacob Zuma delivered his January 8 statement at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday.…
SA troops cheered by parcels from home
Like children who cannot wait to open presents on Christmas Day, South African soldiers cheered loudly when a large cargo plane carrying goodwill parcels from home arrived in…
Early Christmas for SA troops in DRC
Christmas came early on Monday for a group of South African soldiers deployed as part of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).…
Wouter Basson denies unprofessional conduct
While he might have been part of the apartheid government’s secret chemical and biological warfare programme, he did not act unprofessionally, Wouter Basson said on Monday.…