The National Prosecuting Authority says charges against suspended crime intelligence boss will be investigated with a formal inquest, not a trial.
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/ 3 February 2012
Zuma looking to China for infrastructure development.
A complex matrix of issues stymied Dlamini-Zuma’s bid for Africa’s top job.
Without their presence South Africa’s national health insurance cannot be implemented successfully to provide quality healthcare.
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/ 3 February 2012
Nearly half of all pregnancies in South Africa involve teenagers, statistics reveal.
The ANC Youth League says there’s no point in promoting nationalisation at the Mining Indaba because it will be non-negotiable once it becomes policy.
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/ 2 February 2012
South Africa’s industry vehicle sales has increased by 7% in January this year compared to the same month last year.
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/ 2 February 2012
The rand has steadied against the dollar after hitting near five-month highs earlier, with dealers seeing it maintaining its firmer tone.
Social grants are a bonanza for retail stores that act as payouts for thousands of South Africans every month. The M&G joins the queue at a superstore.
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/ 2 February 2012
Overseas demand for South African agricultural products grew 30% between 2008 and 2010, while agricultural imports dropped by nearly one percent.
Defying accusations of pretentiousness, the DA says its shadow cabinet "will help restore Parliament to its rightful place in our democracy".
Donovan Moodley has lost his bid for a retrial, but the NPA will continue to investigate whether others were involved in the murder of Leigh Matthews.
Petrol shortages sparked by maintenance problems at refineries and the Durban harbour could continue until mid-month.
Three poachers have been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of illegally hunting endangered rhino in the Kruger National Park.
SA delegates emerged from their failed bid to win the AU chair, dancing. Does this further seal the country’s image as a petty continental bully?
The ANC still wants "independent regulation" for the media, arguing that self-regulatory efforts are undermined by vested interests.
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/ 31 January 2012
Impala Platinum Holdings has named Terence Goodlace as its new CEO to take over from David Brown who will step down at the end of June.
Fraud-accused Richard Kawie has failed to appear before the Canyon Springs liquidition probe, claiming he is too depressed and too ill to attend.
Eskom says South Africans have to reduce their electricity use by a tenth, so it can take power stations offline for dangerously overdue maintenance.
Charges against 41 Cape Town protesters have been withdrawn following their arrest during an unsanctioned protest on Rondebosch Common.
Julius Malema is hoping the ANC’s NEC will quash his suspension before the verdict of his appeal is announced. But his chances don’t look good.
The AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche murder trial is set to resume with testimony from the police captain who visited the murder scene.
Former deputy president Baleka Mbete has been unanimously voted on to to the African Union’s African Peer Review Mechanism panel.
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/ 29 January 2012
The Free State health department has recalled over a million condoms distributed for the ANC’s centenary celebrations over quality concerns.
Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Thandi Tobias-Poloko has torn into Public Enterprise Minister Malusi Gigaba for "undermining" the ANC’s unity.
It’s a tight race for the position of AU head, but South Africa is insisting it is optimistic its powerful candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma can do it.
Two DA members have been nominated as the party’s Gauteng leader and national spokesperson Mmusi Maimane is not on the list.
Blue Bulls rugby supremo Heyneke Meyer has formally been appointed Springbok rugby coach, the South African Rugby Union (Saru) said on Friday.
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/ 27 January 2012
Saru has announced that the Southern Kings will compete in the Super Rugby competition in 2013.
Good governance is about not hesitating to "put conflict on the table" and deal with it, Judge Mervyn King has told the Cricket SA inquiry.
Cardiologist Wouter Basson’s bid to have four charges of unprofessional and unethical conduct against him dismissed has failed.