Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday said he would consider a request for a probe into the medical parole granted to Schabir Shaik if he received one.
Apartheid-era names for courts such as the High Court of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist last week, the Justice Department confirmed on Monday.
No one disputes that public interest was well served by exposing the private life of Carl Niehaus.
President Kgalema Motlanthe has formally laid a complaint with the press ombudsman, his spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Africa is one of the regions least responsible for climate change, but it is the most affected, President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Tuesday.
South Africa is considering granting credit lines for neighbouring Zimbabwe, President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday.
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/ 28 February 2009
After two hours with Kelebogile Mmokwa, Mmanaledi Mataboge still can’t work out if she knows the president intimately — or at all.
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/ 26 February 2009
South Africans need to put the country’s interests first, not the interests of political parties, said axed NPA head Vusi Pikoli on Wednesday.
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/ 25 February 2009
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to free about 30 jailed activists to help "heal the nation".
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/ 25 February 2009
Resisting ”gifts” was the key to defeating corruption, President Kgalema Motlanthe told community members at a public meeting in Lenasia on Tuesday.
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/ 25 February 2009
The ANC will always be there to take the "youth by the ear" and bring them into line when they are wrong, president Kgalema Motlanthe said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 February 2009
Investec has settled its pension dispute with retirement funds that lost millions when Fedsure collapsed in 2002, the company said on Monday.
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/ 20 February 2009
Repairing Zimbabwe’s battered economy could cost as much as -billion, said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday.
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/ 20 February 2009
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is to meet SA President Kgalema Motlanthe to discuss an aid package to revive Zimbabwe’s economy.
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/ 20 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe speaks to Ebrahim Harvey on the recent media splurges about his personal life, the Carl Niehaus affair and more.
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/ 18 February 2009
Vusi Pikoli is challenging his sacking as NPA head in an effort to defend the rule of law, according to papers prepared for submission to court.
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/ 17 February 2009
Parliament on Tuesday ratified Vusi Pikoli’s dismissal as national director of public prosecutions, but he hit back with a legal bid to be reinstated.
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/ 17 February 2009
The National Assembly on Tuesday agreed to amend the Bill allowing it to sack the entire SABC board, as the original Bill was deemed unconstitutional.
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/ 16 February 2009
Pallo Jordan’s attack on the media for exposing Kgalema Motlanthe’s extramarital affairs is full of straw men.
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/ 15 February 2009
The masses will always be part of the ANC, therefore the party would never leave the country’s people on their own, President Kgalema Motlanthe said.
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/ 15 February 2009
The treason charges against ministerial nominee Roy Bennett have been dropped and replaced with attempt to commit terrorism, banditry and sabotage.
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/ 15 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Saturday that burglary and housebreaking should be taken more seriously by the police and courts.
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/ 13 February 2009
The election date could change pending the outcome of a Constitutional Court hearing on citizens voting abroad, analysts said on Friday.
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/ 12 February 2009
In the face of complaints by the FF+, President Kgalema Motlanthe on Thursday proclaimed April 22 as the date for the national elections.
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/ 12 February 2009
Vusi Pikoli’s lawyers are ready to challenge his dismissal as NPA head in court, should the dismissal be finalised in Parliament.
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/ 12 February 2009
There is something more than slightly patronising in the assumption that alternative lifestyle choices are contrary to good morals.
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/ 11 February 2009
Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday announced the elections will be held on April 22 2009, but there is a court application to delay voting.
Instead of spouting more platitudes, perhaps Kgalema Motlanthe could spit it straight in his State of the Nation address.
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/ 10 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday announced that the date for the general elections will be April 22 2009.
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/ 10 February 2009
Zimbabwe is not planning to adopt the rand, Business Report said on Tuesday, citing the country’s central bank.
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/ 10 February 2009
The denouement of the ‘second transition’ is greatly anticipated, but it may contain elements of brutal ruthlessness.
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/ 9 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe has sent the contentious Broadcasting Amendment Bill back to the National Assembly unsigned.