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South Africa

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/ 20 November 2008

Bafana end year on high note

Bafana Bafana claimed a fourth consecutive international victory on Wednesday by edging Cameroon 3-2 in a Nelson Mandela Challenge thriller.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 November 2008

Zille: In for the long haul

People often tell DA leader Helen Zille that she is in the ”wrong party”. ”It’s madness,” she says. ”Of course I’m not ­- there’s no alternative.”

By Marianne Thamm
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/ 20 November 2008

Mining is in the trenches

Minerals and precious metals are casualties of financial crisis, report Lynley Donnelly and Percy Zvomuya.

By Lynley Donnelly and Percy Zvomuya
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/ 20 November 2008

Time for a two-horse race?

Bantu Holomisa elicited frenzied cheering at Cope’s recent national convention, underscoring his continued popularity with disaffected black voters.

By Marianne Thamm
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/ 20 November 2008

The quiet despair of a dying nation

Binyavanga Wainaina: To win an election, our political classes released the beast. This beast is exactly as bestial as something out of Revelations.

By Binyavanga Wainaina
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/ 20 November 2008

Just can’t get enough

Government clings to JSE investments and places its role of policy director in question.

By Lloyd Gedye
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/ 20 November 2008

Aye aye captain

Like Barack Obama, president in waiting Jacob Zuma will be inheriting a different economy to the one over which his predecessor presided.

By Maya Fisher French
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/ 20 November 2008

Waking to the realisation

Zachariah Rapola’s Noma Award-winning short-story collection could be the beginnings of a dream literary life. Percy Zvomuya talks to its author.

By Percy Zvomuya
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/ 20 November 2008

Finding the plot

An award-winning sculptor’s work redefines African masculinity, writes Anthea Buys.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 November 2008

Saving for a rainy day

Putting aside a nest egg may be the best gift you can
give your loved ones, writes Maya Fisher-French

By Maya Fisher French
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/ 20 November 2008

Govt caught napping on renewable energy

A week after parliamentarians handed in a private members Bill on feed-in tariffs, government has promised to have a strategy by February.

By Yolandi Groenewald
Comfortable skin
Article
/ 20 November 2008

Comfortable skin

International photographer Jodi Bieber writes about seeking beauty beyond media cliches.

By Jodi Bieber
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Article
/ 19 November 2008

NPA seeks to clarify Mpshe’s statements

The NPA on Wednesday sought to clarify recent statements made by acting National Director of Public Prosecutions Mokotedi Mpshe.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 November 2008

Group cries foul over Zuma court date

A Western Cape group wants the date of the NPA’s appeal against the setting aside of charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma to be changed.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 November 2008

More SA companies come clean on carbon

A total of 59 of SA’s Top 100 companies have responded to South Africa’s Carbon Disclosure Project, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 November 2008

NCOP passes Scorpions Bills

The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Wednesday passed the Bills that will amalgamate the Scorpions into the police.

By Michael Hamlyn
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/ 19 November 2008

Blue-light cops have ‘a history of terrorising road users’

VIP protection-unit members have a history of terrorising KZN motorists, magistrate Thys Taljaard told the Camperdown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 November 2008

Nel deserves 25-year sentence, court hears

Skierlik murder accused Johan Nel deserves a sentence of between 20 and 25 years, a psychologist told a court on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 November 2008

Vietnam to recall diplomat filmed taking rhino horn

Vietnam said on Wednesday it would recall one of its diplomats from SA after she was filmed conducting an illegal transaction in rhinoceros horn.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 19 November 2008

Blue-lights cops ‘were rushing’ to pick up minister

A VIP protection-unit member was not attending to any emergency when he allegedly shot the tyre of a motorists he was overtaking.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 19 November 2008

SA treats dozens of cholera patients on Zim border

SA has treated 68 cholera patients since the weekend in a town by the border with Zimbabwe, a health official said on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 19 November 2008

Jo’burg inner-city residents march over evictions

Protesting Johannesburg inner-city residents handed over a memorandum of their grievances to the ANC on Wednesday.

By Wendy Nzama
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/ 19 November 2008

Emerging markets advancing faster

The emerging-market world is growing faster than the developed world and South Africa is no exception.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 November 2008

Resources weigh on JSE

The JSE was almost 1% in the red at noon on Wednesday, led by declines in the resource sector.

By Jacqueline Mackenzie
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/ 19 November 2008

Mantashe scraps with NPA over Zuma judgement

ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe has attacked NPA director Mokotedi Mpshe over comments he made to the media about Judge Chris Nicholson’s ruling.

By Staff Reporter
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Analysis
/ 19 November 2008

Robben Island rabbits on the run

Bottom line is: We’ve changed the world around us, sometimes disastrously and irreparably. Someone has to take responsibility for the mess we’ve made.

By Leonie Joubert
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/ 19 November 2008

The pricey problem of varsity

Tertiary education is expensive and many who aspire to be students are forced to apply for study loans, such as those offered by banks.

By Monako Dibetle
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/ 19 November 2008

ID: Bridging traditional gaps

Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms

By Marianne Thamm
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/ 19 November 2008

Tail must not wag the dog

ANC’s vision of a developmental state is detrimental to the poor, the unemployed and the politically unconnected.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 18 November 2008

Zapiro makes light of Mandela

Don’t worry, Nelson Mandela can laugh at himself. At least that’s the opinion of Jonathan Shapiro, SA’s leading political cartoonist for 20 years.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 18 November 2008

SA Rugby to toe line on emblem legislation

The Springbok emblem can still be utilised by the South African Rugby Union, but the King Protea as national emblem will be worn on the jersey.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 18 November 2008

SA platinum output to rise slightly in 2009

SA should see a ”modest” rise in platinum output in 2009 after a decline this year, but long-term mine expansions will be restricted by power supply.

By James Macharia
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