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/ 13 November 2008
President Kgalema Motlanthe on Wednesday declared a period of national mourning for music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.
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/ 13 November 2008
Less than a third of work permits intended to enable the appointment of foreign maths teachers have been taken up.
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/ 13 November 2008
What can be done to ensure that SA’s failing public agencies fulfil their constitutional and legal obligation to service information requests?
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/ 13 November 2008
Two reports highlight the hidden vulnerability of communities around large-scale mining projects.
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/ 13 November 2008
So far renewable energy investment has been stalling because private providers had no incentive to generate their own electricity.
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/ 13 November 2008
With the drop in life expectancy, focus will need to shift from retirement policies to social grants for survival and other needs.
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/ 12 November 2008
Current market movements are not rational and the rand’s value does not reflect inherent strength or weakness of the SA economy, Trevor Manuel says.
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/ 12 November 2008
The extent of violence globally against women and children remains a cause for worry and concern, the Social Development Department said on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
Heavy rains are expected to hit at least four provinces on Thursday, says the South African Weather Service.
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/ 12 November 2008
Golden Arrows humiliated Ajax Cape Town when they walloped them 4-0 in a one-sided Absa Premiership match on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 12 November 2008
AmaZulu registered a hard-fought 1-0 win over Bloemfontein Celtic in an Absa Premiership match played on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 12 November 2008
Twenty-three people were killed and eight injured when two trucks collided on the R40 Bushbuckridge road on Wednesday, Mpumalanga police said.
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/ 12 November 2008
The FXI has called on President Kgalema Motlanthe to make public the Ginwala commission’s report on suspended prosecutions head Vusi Pikoli.
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/ 12 November 2008
Cosatu has launched a new project that will focus on making sure the lives of the poor and workers are improved, it announced on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
The third and final one-day international between SA and Bangladesh was abandoned without a ball bowled in East London on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
A divorced father facing sentencing on five counts of fraud tried to escape by spraying a court orderly with pepper spray at a court on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
More than 21,6-million South Africans have registered to vote in the 2009 election, the IEC said on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
The new ”get tough” approach to fighting crime was elaborated on on Wednesday by Nathi Mthethwa, the new Minister of Safety and Security.
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/ 12 November 2008
Numsa has accused Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and SARB Governor Tito Mboweni of being key architects behind unpopular macroeconomic policies.
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/ 12 November 2008
Retailer Mr Price boosted first-half profit by 11% as its low-cost clothes helped it grab market share in tough conditions, lifting its shares.
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/ 12 November 2008
The JSE slipped into weaker territory by noon on Wednesday as negative sentiment seeped back and weighed on global markets.
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/ 12 November 2008
The body of singing legend and activist ”Mama Africa” Miriam Makeba, who died in Italy aged 76, arrived in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
The remains of South African singer Miriam Makeba, who died in Italy on Sunday, will arrive home on Wednesday morning, the Foreign Ministry said.
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/ 12 November 2008
The Constitutional Court has dismissed ousted president Thabo Mbeki’s application to oppose a high court ruling that ultimately cost him his job.
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/ 12 November 2008
A housing project in the Western Cape has been stalled because residents don’t want help from ‘makwerekwere’, writes Pearlie Joubert.
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/ 12 November 2008
The NPA has denied claims by Robert Gumede that it has issued a certificate declining to prosecute the IT bigwig on corruption charges.
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/ 12 November 2008
Plans by Cabinet to reassign responsibility for the construction of public housing to municipalities could be heading for heavy waters.
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/ 12 November 2008
The Radisson Hotel, on Granger Bay, is right on the seaboard with sweeping views facing Robben Island.
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/ 12 November 2008
Teenage girls grow up and realise that fame and richness aren’t everything, but most of them would sacrifice fame rather than wealth.
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/ 12 November 2008
My experience of engineers is that they are rarely the life of a dinner party. I recall an instance in which I was forced to play "the measuring game".
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/ 11 November 2008
Prosecutors will remain with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), it said on Tuesday in answer to media reports that hundreds would be laid off.
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/ 11 November 2008
The ANC’s economic policies are going to change, the party’s secretary general Gwede Mantashe told businessmen in Johannesburg on Tuesday.