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/ 29 October 2010
Three people accused of fraud alongside controversial businessman Sandile Majali will be sent for mental observation, a court ordered on Friday.
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/ 29 October 2010
A slowdown in revenue and the deterioration in cost-to-income ratio led to the bank retrenching more than 1 500 senior staff members, it says.
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/ 29 October 2010
The PSC’s 2010 report on the state of the public service casts a sharp and often unflattering eye on the one-million-employee state sector.
Government plans to centralise media buying reveal an attempt to channel advertising to "patriotic" media, insiders say.
State departments failed to respond to 90% of corruption cases reported by the public on hotlines during the past financial year, a report says.
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/ 29 October 2010
South African petrol pump prices will increase by 20 cents a litre, or 2,46%, from November 3, the government said on Friday.
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/ 29 October 2010
South Africa’s communications regulator said on Friday it would force cellphone companies to cut charges for handling calls from other providers.
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/ 29 October 2010
How you conduct yourself in a bursary interview will determine if you get that much-needed financial help, writes <b>Riva Levin</b>.
Policymakers eager to please the West transplant policies that stunt the continent’s growth.
Former Congress of the People (Cope) parliamentary leader Mvume Dandala has asked the Methodist Church of Southern Africa to take him back.
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/ 29 October 2010
University is the first in Africa to sign the Berlin Declaration and post its research online.
Socioeconomic background makes all the difference when it comes to matric exams.
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/ 29 October 2010
Ranjeni Munusamy is out. The long-time ally of Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande will leave the department by this weekend.
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/ 29 October 2010
The retrenchment of 2 100 Standard Bank employees is nothing more sinister than basic economics, say analysts.
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/ 29 October 2010
Notwithstanding a poor international season, the anticipation ahead of the Currie Cup finalsuggests that the game in SA is in rude health.
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/ 29 October 2010
Cosatu is not giving up on President Jacob Zuma — at least for now. But the federation’s officials still had scorching words for this week’s budget.
Pravin Gordhan paused in his medium-term budget policy speech on Wednesday to make what seemed a rote remark about the tax season.
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/ 29 October 2010
The state plans to convict 100 corrupt people who have each stolen more than R5-million through tender fraud over the next three-and-a-half years.
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/ 28 October 2010
Odwa Ndungane’s return to the wing in place of the injured JP Pietersen is the only change to the Sharks’ starting line-up for the Currie Cup final.
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/ 28 October 2010
Investigators on Thursday sifted through burned-out remains of the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court’s third floor to determine what had caused a fire.
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/ 28 October 2010
The department of water affairs will tell Cabinet in mid-December how it plans to resolve the acid mine drainage threat and how much this will cost.
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/ 28 October 2010
Pirates skipper Lucky Lekgwathi wore a big smile on Thursday after their tough away draw of SuperSport for the quarterfinals of the Telkom Knockout.
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/ 28 October 2010
South Africa’s producer inflation slowed to 6,8% year-on-year in September from 7,8% in August, official data showed on Thursday.
Public Service Minister Richard Baloyi on Thursday called for South Africa to adopt a culture of anti-corruption.
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/ 28 October 2010
The Democratic Alliance has proposed that Parliament debate what exactly constitutes the minimum standards of the right to education.
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/ 28 October 2010
Gauteng provincial education minister Barbara Creecy this week handed out cellphones to principals and officials, in a bid to improve communication.
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/ 28 October 2010
In Zimbabwe, where just 700 rhinos remain, anti-poaching units face military-like armed gangs.
Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi has denied suggestions that a civil society conference under way in Boksburg was testing waters for a new political party.
Political parties have given a cautious green light to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
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/ 28 October 2010
A blaze that ripped through the third floor of the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday brought the wheels of justice to a halt.
SA’s economy will grow a better-than-expected 3% this year but this will be too slow to tackle soaring unemployment, the finance minister has warned.
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/ 27 October 2010
Two Western Cape schools have become the first participants in a global project aimed at addressin g pressing environmental issues using technology.