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/ 6 February 2009
There were some interesting hats at Friday’s opening of Parliament, but nothing to scare the pigeons as much as the 21-gun salute did.
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/ 6 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Friday during his State of the Nation address that the global economic meltdown does pose dangers.
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/ 6 February 2009
A spokesperson said on Friday that the former president had already made other plans by the time the invitation to the opening had arrived.
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/ 6 February 2009
As President Kgalema Motlanthe addresses the nation in his first, and possibly last, State of the Nation address, he will be walking a tightrope.
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/ 4 February 2009
Najwa Petersen was among the top 3% of earners in South Africa when she killed her husband, Taliep, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 4 February 2009
Will he or won’t he announce a poll date? That is the question observers are asking ahead of the president’s State of the Nation speech on Friday.
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/ 3 February 2009
Durban dock workers are expected to refuse to offload an Israeli ship as part of a week of action against Israel, Cosatu said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 January 2009
The Sport Ministry has confirmed that regulations that would have allowed the minister to interfere with national team selections have been withdrawn.
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/ 28 January 2009
Burundian peace facilitator Jan van Eck died of a heart attack in Cape Town on January 27.
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/ 27 January 2009
Hundreds of shebeen owners and workers marched to the Western Cape legislature in Cape Town on Tuesday in protest against proposed new liquor rulings.
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/ 23 January 2009
Recent media reports that the South African judiciary is being undermined have no basis, says President Kgalema Motlanthe.
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/ 13 January 2009
The ANC parliamentary caucus has asked party lawyers to review the NPA Act in the wake of Monday’s judgement in the Jacob Zuma case.
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/ 13 January 2009
The National Assembly’s battered image could be restored if Parliament reopens discussions on the arms deal, an independent panel said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 January 2009
Construction recently started on Africa’s first state-of-the-art film studio near Cape Town, which once completed will be worthy of Hollywood status.
Ajax Cape Town and Santos played to a 1-1 draw in an action-packed derby at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 29 December 2008
It was a fine day in Cape Town so we thought that looking for quaggas would be a great idea.
I can’t say that our plans were well advanced.
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/ 25 December 2008
Brent Meersman goes up and down Cape Town’s cosmopolitan strip.
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/ 17 December 2008
The 2008 South African Open, which gets under way at Pearl Valley, near Franschhoek, on Thursday, will boast its strongest field to date.
Ten years after emigrating to the Mother City from the Eastern Cape, I still can’t quite get used to the gulf between the "haves" and the "have nots".
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/ 12 December 2008
ANC chief whip Mnyamezeli Booi is to go on trial for fraud in June next year, not in February as had been expected, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 11 December 2008
Police are searching for three bank-robbery suspects who were apparently sprung from Pollsmoor prison this week by men posing as police officers.
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/ 11 December 2008
The ANC on Thursday asked the Constitutional Court to invalidate the 12 by-elections their candidates were excluded from in the Western Cape.
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/ 10 December 2008
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown, who is facing multiple fraud charges, has found God and a new girlfriend, it was revealed on Wednesday.
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/ 10 December 2008
The relationship between consumer and clean-up man is an intimate one. He knows things about me I wouldn’t tell my closest friends.
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/ 9 December 2008
The Gordon’s Bay fire was under control on the edges of the residential area by Tuesday afternoon, but still raging on the mountain above the town.
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/ 7 December 2008
Captain Joe Dryden, investigating officer of the case, said they were suspicious of Najwa ”from very early on”.
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/ 5 December 2008
Former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni was on Friday found not guilty on a drunken-driving charge by the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 3 December 2008
If Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will not step down voluntarily he should be removed by force, said senior Cope member Philip Dexter on Tuesday.
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/ 2 December 2008
Najwa Petersen and two of her co-accused have been found guilty of the December 2006 murder of her entertainer husband, Taliep.
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/ 1 December 2008
On Monday, a judge repeatedly cast doubt on Najwa Petersen’s version of the events surrounding the murder of her husband, Taliep.
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/ 1 December 2008
The state notched up an important victory in the Najwa Petersen trial on Monday when a key witness was found to have been ”frank” in his testimony.
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/ 25 November 2008
After he allegedly shot his children, Marius van der Westhuizen told his commanding officer what he had done, but would not say where he was hiding.