The Presidency announced on Tuesday that Pansy Tlakula is the new chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission.
Sibusiso Ndebele has launched the I-Pledge road safety campaign, hoping to change the behaviour of drivers in a bid to bring down the road death toll.
The Gauteng government has downplayed a backlog in paupers’ burials, amid concerns over mortuary management at Charlotte Maxeke hospital.
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/ 8 November 2011
Parliament’s sports committee has told Safa that South African soccer needs to get serious about preparation and developing young talent.
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The Chamber of Mines and Sasol have expressed reservations about SA’s main climate policy paper, with industry reduction targets a key concern.
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has fired its head of equity derivatives and trading business, Allan Thomson, for irregular trading.
A study of tuberculosis treatments has revealed that taking TB control out of the clinic and into the community can make a big difference.
Sanzar has announced the Boks will face the Pumas in their first match of the Castle Rugby Championship, a replacement tournament for the Tri-Nations.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says the woman who claims to be pregnant with his child was paid by intelligence agencies to rubbish his name.
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Corpses awaiting indigent burials are piling up at Charlotte Maxeke hospital, while employees complain of unsanitary working conditions in the morgue.
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Prince Charles recently visited South Africa on a whistle-stop tour to discuss trade and investment, unemployment, and visit local royalty.
Sources have revealed that the former chief electoral officer Pansy Tlakula has been appointed as the new chairperson of the IEC.
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Sanral says toll account registrations and e-tag distribution for motorists for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project is due to begin next week.
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The Qiniso dialogues highlight and overcome the problems experienced by South Africans in communicating across the racial, cultural and class divide.
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Three Greenpeace activists have been arrested at the Kusile power station’s construction site in Mpumalanga after scaling a crane.
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Former Land Bank boss Philemon Mohlahlane has appeared in the commercial crimes court charged with embezzling R19-million from the AgriBEE scheme.
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Scientists setting out on an undersea expedition say they expect to find new life, after their last trip netted a previously unknown species of squid.
The medical parole bid by Chris Hani’s assassin, Clive Derby-Lewis, is part of a deceitful campaign to get out of jail, the SACP says.
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House prices, still 13% below their 2007 peak, are not rising with inflation — and home property values are set to drop even further, analysts say.
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Two white rhinos were shot dead by poachers on a farm near Hectorspruit at the weekend.
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Environmental activists are protesting at the site in Mpumalanga where the Kusile coal-fired power station is being constructed, says Greenpeace.
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As SA’s Reserve Bank considers interest rates this week, global interest remains fixed on the drama enveloping Europe, writes <b>Matt Quigley</b>
Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing is finally over, but his fate will not be made public for at least another week.
Opposition parties have slammed plans for R1.6-billion is to be spent on two new long-range jets for President Jacob Zuma and his deputy.
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A new investigating officer has been appointed to the Leigh Matthews murder case after a second person was traced to the ransom exchange.
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/ 4 November 2011
Anglo American has bought an extra 40% of De Beers from the Oppenheimers for $5.1bn, giving it a majority stake in the world’s largest diamond firm.
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/ 3 November 2011
The New Delhi superbug causing alarm in a Benoni hospital is probably more prevalant in SA than originally thought — but not especially dangerous.
Cope has vehemently denied reports that is planning to merge with the DA now that Lindiwe Mazibuko is heading that party’s parliamentary caucus.
The appointment of Zuma’s personal lawyer as his legal adviser in the executive has raised the eyebrows of legal analysts and the ire of unions.
What Fikile Mbalula does in his private life should not matter to the South African public, says <b>Nickolaus Bauer</b>.
Keeping up with the Kunenes is a death trap for SA families, who are mired in horrendous debt, says Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel.
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SA has ranked 15th on an index of nations whose businesses are most likely to use bribery to secure foreign contracts — below other BRICS countries.