After barring journalists from attending the probe into Cricket SA, Judge Chris Nicholson has changed his mind and opened the inquiry to the media.
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/ 23 November 2011
The Treatment Action Campaign faces closure due to a lack of funds, which it claims is primarily due to bad administration at the health department.
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/ 23 November 2011
Workers at the South African Nursing Council have gone on strike, demanding a 10.5% pay rise after an offer of 7%.
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/ 23 November 2011
The ANC has threatened disciplinary action against its own MPs who did not vote for the passing of the controversial Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 23 November 2011
The blacked out Mac Maharaj story isn’t worth shouting apartheid about, says <b>Niren Tolsi</b>.
The Hawks say they have not yet decided whether to investigate the <i>M&G</i>, after Mac Maharaj laid charges against the paper and two journalists.
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/ 23 November 2011
Eskom has grown its net profit to R12.8-billion in the six months to end of September, chief financial officer Paul O’Flaherty says.
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/ 23 November 2011
The new national planning commission shows an emerging consensus, but could be hampered by the current government, says DA leader Helen Zille.
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/ 23 November 2011
We look at what sort of stories would never have made it to print had the Protection of State Information Bill been enacted into law at the time.
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/ 23 November 2011
Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini says a leadership stampede has led to divisions within the federation that have distracted its unions from key goals.
The Hawks will investigate Mac Maharaj’s criminal charges against the M&G, a move slammed by editor Nic Dawes as "an abuse of state resources".
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/ 23 November 2011
The secrecy Bill will be challenged in the Constitutional Court if the National Council of Provinces and President Zuma fail to fix the legislation.
Fikile Mbalula says government will implement measures that will ensure the development of school sports while quotas will remain in sport for now.
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/ 22 November 2011
ANC MPs have avoided wearing black ‘as planned by the opposition’ as Parliamentarians met to vote on the contentious Protection of Information Bill.
Presidency spokesperson Mac Maharaj’s criminal charges against the M&G has been escalated to the Hawks.
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/ 22 November 2011
The National Assembly voted in the Protection of Information Bill on Tuesday with 229 votes.
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/ 22 November 2011
The IEC has received its fifth award in 12 months for its innovative election scanning project which was introduced in South Africa in 2009.
Ahead of Parliament’s vote on the contentious secrecy Bill, the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has tabled amendments it feels could fix the Bill.
Mac Maharaj is the latest in a succession of cantankerous government spokespeople who, by becoming the story, have made their jobs … complicated.
The Mail & Guardian takes a look at presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj’s brushes with controversy over the years.
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/ 22 November 2011
Journalists, activists and citizens around SA have joined protests against the controversial secrecy Bill, which Parliament will vote on today.
A question on television soap opera characters that appeared in a Grade 9 exam has sparked an investigation by the department of basic education.
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/ 22 November 2011
The passing of the secrecy Bill today would mark the beginning of the end of the freedom of information we cherish as a pillar of our democracy.
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/ 21 November 2011
The press ombudsman has dismissed a complaint made by Mathole Motshekga about a <i>Cape Times</i> Protection of State Information Bill story.
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/ 21 November 2011
The department of public enterprise’s climate change policy framework has to meet the special needs of state-owned companies, says Malusi Gigaba.
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/ 21 November 2011
Fikile Mbalula says the sport and recreation indaba will not be a waste of time as mechanisms will be put in place to hold people accountable.
The SA National Editors’ Forum has come out in support of the bid to get permission to publish information that shows Mac Maharaj lied to the NPA.
A paradigm shift is needed to address inequality, says Trevor Manuel, because blind faith in the free market "is like believing in the Easter Bunny".
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/ 21 November 2011
Investors are uncertain whether the eurozone can solve its debt crisis. Will bond markets signal optimism or deepening scepticism in the week ahead?
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/ 19 November 2011
South Africa-born former England all-rounder Basil D’Oliveira, subject of one of cricket’s biggest controversies, has died at the age of 80.
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/ 19 November 2011
Kgalema Motlanthe says Moody’s downgrading of South Africa’s credit rating outlook was wrong and lacked understanding of government’s efforts.
For the second time in three months, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been hospitalised to treat her diabetes.