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The ANC is on a political drive to "destroy" South Africa’s provinces, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
Thabo Mbeki has indirectly criticised the Mo Ebrahim Foundation’s decision not to award its governance prize to a deserving African leader.
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/ 15 October 2010
South Africa’s economic growth, currently below 4%, was "insufficient", the Minister of Human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale said on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2010
South Africa should not review its biofuels policy to include maize as this would fuel food prices hikes, an industry body on biofuels said on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2010
Hand washing. It seems so innocuous. After you use the toilet, before you eat. We all learnt to do it as little children, right?
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/ 15 October 2010
Not guilty, yet guilty verdict for SABC’s Robin Nicholson.
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/ 15 October 2010
Mpumalanga’s education department has dismissed 60 teachers for sexually abusing pupils in the past five years, the province has disclosed.
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/ 15 October 2010
The Sonke Gender Justice Network is going ahead with its bid to attach assets worth R50 000 from ANC Youth League president Julius Malema.
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/ 15 October 2010
The murder case against Blue Bulls rugby player Jacobus Stephanus "Bees" Roux was postponed to December 10 on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2010
Each year, lions are raised in captivity in South Africa and then set loose in enclosed areas where hunters, many from the US, gun them down.
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/ 15 October 2010
Nigerian former militant leader Henry Okah was a dangerous man and could compromise public safety if released on bail, a court heard on Friday.
Involving parents and children in a single project benefits both.
The national school curriculum’s science statements are rushed, fraught with error and the writers probably lacked expertise to write them.
The judge hearing former police chief Jackie Selebi’s corruption case was placed under 24-hour police protection after receiving death threats.
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/ 15 October 2010
There is a crisis in African languages, particularly at school level, that everyone concerned will have to address.
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/ 15 October 2010
The DBE ecently posted documents providing drafts of new syllabuses and assessment procedures for every school subject in all grades.
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/ 15 October 2010
Zimbabwe’s cricketers are no longer the skinny nerds who get beach sand kicked in their face by the body builder in front of the girls.
Questions hang over price and proceeds of signed artwork.
It is necessary to reach the nation in languages that they understand best.
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/ 15 October 2010
To improve South Africa’s dismal PhD performance the government will have to navigate a minefield.
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/ 15 October 2010
It seems that the South African Rugby Union has decided to give Peter de Villiers one last chance to prove his credentials.
The president of Sadtu has faced weeks of conflict, violence and condemnation, but remains committed to furthering working-class interests.
Troops are called in as sensitive ecosystems are damaged.
As of Monday SA will have a fourth mobile operator and it means business. The new operator, which has been dubbed "8ta", is the mobile arm of Telkom.
The arms deal investigation is dead. After a decade of investigators’ blood, sweat and tears, Hawks boss Anwa Dramat has effectively buried the probe.
MOVIES OF THE WEEK: <strong>Shaun de Waal</strong> reviews four movies showing at Ster Kinekor’s Pride Films festival.
If you think there is no evidence of the politicisation of the HRC, then read this.
A man and his microbrew – which won serious accolades at the Britain’s Wetherspoons Real Ale Festival – are hoping to take on KZN and then the world.
<strong>Shaun de Waal</strong> gives a list of films to see at the Out in Africa festival.
A film short, <i>A Kind of Language</i>, is a free adaptation of his work, existing alongside it.
<i>Conversations with Myself</i> yields some new facts but few personal details.
<strong>Percy Zvomuya</strong> sees <i>The Butcher Brothers</i>, directed by Sylvaine Strike as disturbing, dark and brooding.