Ali Bacher’s appearance at Judge Nicholson’s probe into the state of CSA has elicited a burning question about the former cricket boss’s motives.
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/ 16 January 2012
Government officials have met to discuss the re-erection of a 150km border fence between Mozambique and South Africa.
Delivering a report on provincial finances, the auditor general has refused to be drawn on the move to place key departments under central control.
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/ 16 January 2012
South Africa’s mining and quarrying sector has seen the largest foreign direct investment for 2009, followed by manufacturing and finance.
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/ 16 January 2012
The rand is expected to have a tough week after rating agency Fitch announced its downgrade of South Africa’s outlook rating.
Enoch Godongwana insists his resignation as deputy minister of economic development is not due to a probe into how R100m in union money disappeared.
Dr Ali Bacher will today explain a R5m payout cited by Cricket SA boss Gerald Majola as a precedent for his own controversial handling of bonuses.
The Kruger National Park will get 150 additional rangers to combat poaching, following news that 11 rhino have been already been killed in SA in 2012.
Mathews Phosa has slated Joe Phaahla and his supporters for lodging a dispute against the outcome of the ANC’s Limpopo elective conference.
The department of correctional services says an appeal for the medical parole of Jackie Selebi will be considered this week.
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/ 14 January 2012
Police officers are now not allowed to use rubber bullets or shotguns on protesters after reports of excessive violence being used on demonstrators.
Oprah Winfrey has come to South Africa as the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls yielded its first group of matriculants.
Due to the country’s failure to create jobs and improve economic growth, Fitch has revised South Africa’s outlook from stable to negative.
Government says Cabinet’s January lekgotla, which will form the basis of the president’s state of the nation speech, is due to begin on January 17.
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/ 13 January 2012
The World Bank has identified South Africa and Tanzania as having some of the highest costs for remittance payments in the world.
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/ 12 January 2012
Tito Mboweni and his brother Alto have signed a memorandum of understanding to take a 20% stake in Ferrox Holdings for a consideration of $32-million.
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/ 12 January 2012
Eskom says the performance of the country’s power system has improved since Monday, with the parastatal saying it would continue to be on alert.
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/ 12 January 2012
Over R25-million in lottery winnings is unclaimed, including a R16.45 million jackpot, national lottery operator Gidani said on Thursday.
Pretoria has yet to decide how it will respond to a call by the US to decrease oil imports from Iran — the source of 25% of SA’s overall supply.
Conservationists say regulating trade in ivory and rhino horn is getting tougher because syndicates are becoming more sophisticated.
Blade Nzimande says the focus of higher education will shift from universities to FET colleges, which must be overhauled in line with workplace needs.
Zimbabwe’s vice-president Joice Mujuru has denied a rift between Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and the ANC, saying her country was "grateful" to SA’s ruling party.
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/ 12 January 2012
An Eastern Cape resort is being investigated for saying a black child was not welcome there and that the only the black people allowed were employees.
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/ 12 January 2012
A local fast food franchise has brought out special "braille" hamburgers, in a jab at a rival’s recent refusal to allow a guide dog onto its premises.
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/ 11 January 2012
Bafana Bafana have drawn 1-1 against Zambia in their practice match at Rand Stadium, which yielded a meagre crowd and threats from Bafana.
Thabo Mbeki’s office says it has not yet received a call from the ANC Youth League to meet after Julius Malema said he would be requesting one.
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/ 11 January 2012
Transnet has launched its new mutli-product pipeline which will be able to transport petrol, diesel, jet fuel and gas from Durban to Heidelberg.
The University of Johannesburg says it will pay the tuition fees of the man whose mother was killed in a stampede at its Bunting Road campus.
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/ 11 January 2012
Nearly three decades after she was entangled in a controversial Olympic final, Zola Budd has set herself a modest goal at the Comrades Marathon.
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/ 11 January 2012
Fedusa says it is worried that Ethe high risk of power outages announced by Eskom could affect households and businesses for the rest of the month.
The <em>M&G</em> speaks to the founder of new online music service Airborne about how SA artists can make the most of an enormous internet audience.
After a fatal stampede in Johannesburg, questions are being raised about why late applicants in Gauteng target UJ and not other universities.