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/ 25 November 2011
The UFO, science and consciousness conference has heard that alien technology is being used to thin the earth’s population.
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/ 25 November 2011
Recent social unrest in places like Tunisia highlights why countries should not disregard people’s desire to share in the benefits of economic growth.
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/ 25 November 2011
Dismissed Cricket South Africa president Mtutuzeli Nyoka is due to appear before the committee of inquiry into the CSA’s financial affairs.
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/ 25 November 2011
After a spate of attacks on hikers, a volunteer group is considering taking SANParks Table Mountain National Park to court.
Sanef has welcomed the decision of the National Council of Provinces to form an ad hoc committee on the Protection of State Information Bill.
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/ 24 November 2011
The claim that international precedent does not show a need for a public interest clause in the secrecy Bill has been challenged by legal experts.
The DA has called Cabinet’s decision to assess the Constitutional Court’s judgments "one of the strangest proposals to date".
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/ 24 November 2011
The ANC is seeking ways to finance efforts to boost jobs in the agriculture and mining sectors, which could include pension funds buying more bonds.
The Freedom of Expression Institute has called the SABC’s suspension of two Ukhozi FM presenters for playing an anti-Malema song ‘disappointing’.
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/ 24 November 2011
The Golden Arrows have said they will target the fragile confidence levels of Orlando Pirates in the Telkom Knockout semifinal this weekend.
The Hawks have begun investigating the <i>M&G</i> in connection with charges laid by Mac Maharaj, denying the probe is an abuse of state resources.
Lawyers representing ANC Youth League leaders are preparing to submit appeal applications to the ANC national appeals committee.
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.