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/ 24 February 2011
Trifecta director Christo Scholtz is embroiled in a legal battle with his ex-business partner’s widow, who claims he cheated her family out of her dead husband’s stake in the company. At the time of his death in a plane crash near Kimberley in March 2009, Sarel Breda’s Shosholoza Trust held 55% of Trifecta Investment Holdings […]
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/ 18 February 2011
Former employee hands over six files of documents to M&G and the police
Parliamentary committee chairperson Yolanda Botha apparently received kickbacks from a company to which she assigned tenders worth more than R50m.
The Masai Mara is Kenya’s iconic game reserve, with almost inconceivable numbers of wildlife grazing, hunting, mating, birthing and dying across mile upon mile of undulating savannah.
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/ 21 January 2011
Hans Joachim Klaar has spent most of the past 11 years on the high seas, fleeing from justice. Accused of raping a Pietermaritzburg woman in 1996, the Swiss national was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by a Durban magistrate in December 1998. Klaar appealed to the Pietermaritzburg High Court and in August 1999 his sentence […]
Contradictory statements issued by department of health officials about the controversial Tara KLamp, leaves many scratching their heads.
The quiet town of Grahamstown could get even quieter if the proposed Superior Courts Bill gets through Parliament.
ANC Northern Cape chair John Block has allegedly used his influence in the ANC to build a lucrative property empire, the <em>M&G</em> can reveal.
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/ 10 December 2010
The pressure is on for the government to roll out the country’s nuclear strategy and decisions are expected to be made within a year.
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/ 9 December 2010
A senior American diplomat has called on Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo to "do the mature, statesmanlike thing" and accept electoral defeat.
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/ 3 December 2010
A walk on the wild side makes you acutely aware of your Âsurroundings and, of course, vulnerability.
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/ 3 December 2010
His doorstopper of a biography is nearly ready, but Pik Botha doesn’t like it one bit. He talks to the M&G as part of our 25th anniversary series.
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/ 26 November 2010
State-owned mining company African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation has received 27 prospecting licences.
Nuclear energy is mired in controversy yet it
is being touted as a solution to lowering emissions.
It was hard to believe that the broad-shouldered man who jogged up the stairs from the holding cells could be a terrorist.
Nigerian terror-accused Henry Okah was denied bail by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday despite denying being the leader of Mend.
An announcement this week linking Henry Okah to a car bomb explosion in Warri in March could deal a fresh blow to his bail application in SA.
The Karoo has a potential natural gas deposit that could contribute to the country’s future energy security and create thousands of jobs.
Nigerian terrorism accused Henry Okah’s bail application was postponed again in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Runner-up — Best Corporate Employee Community Involvement Programme: <b>Nedbank</b>.
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/ 25 October 2010
Zambia’s drug-busting agency has approached Interpol to help bring the man behind the controversial Tara KLamp circumcision device back home.
Towering black Highveld storm clouds gathered overhead as Yiull Damaso unveiled his completed "Mandela corpse" artwork on Tuesday night.
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/ 20 October 2010
Cheaper money and lower cost have made green energy even more attractive to producers.
Private companies and banks itching to enter alternative energy market, writes Lionel Faull.
Questions hang over price and proceeds of signed artwork.
Wholesale reform of the clothing and textile industry is needed if it is to compete globally.
Dubai used to be a dream work destination for thousands of South Africans but now it is turning into a nightmare for many.
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/ 21 September 2010
The Medupi project in Limpopo is seen as important in bridging the gap between power supply and demand.
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/ 17 September 2010
South African fiction writing is brimming with health, but the state of reading is so dire as to be virtually on a hospital respirator.
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/ 10 September 2010
The lowering of interest rates is designed to spur economic activity by making money cheaper and boosting consumer spending.
More than 300 factories which pay lower than the required minimum wage — a third of them Chinese-owned — face closure, with potential job losses.