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South Africa

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/ 20 October 2008

Probe starts into Roodepoort building collapse

Structural engineers have begun an investigation into the causes of the collapse of a three-storey Roodepoort building.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 October 2008

Treasury changes its mind on estate-duty exemption

In trying to encourage South Africans to save, the Treasury has realised that it has unintentionally opened a loophole in the country’s tax laws.

By Michael Hamlyn
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/ 20 October 2008

KZN sounds warning to exam cheats

A three-year blacklisting and a criminal record await those who write exams for their friends, the KwaZulu-Natal education department said on Monday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 October 2008

Step up fight against Aids, says health minister

Africa should put more effort and resources into the fight against HIV/Aids, Health Minister Barbara Hogan said on Monday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 October 2008

Glenister sets sights on Travelgate MPs

Businessman Hugh Glenister will this week seek an interdict to bar Travelgate MPs from voting on legislation aimed at disbanding the Scorpions.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 October 2008

Downs look to break mini-slump

Big-spending Mamelodi Sundowns are determined to bounce back during a tough seven-day period where they will play three challenging matches.

By Billy Cooper
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/ 20 October 2008

Gold Fields counts the cost of accidents

Gold Fields estimates that South African mine closures due to fatalities last week have cost it about 300kg (or close to 10 582 ounces).

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 20 October 2008

Examining higher education

The HEQC has audited 26 higher education institutions, 15 of them public, since the inception of the institutional audits in 2004.

By Lis Lange
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Article
/ 20 October 2008

The Fifth Column

The fifth estate is a grouping that is slowly growing both in readership and respectability.

By Andrew Heavens Guest and Alaa Shahine
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/ 20 October 2008

Young South Africans saddle up in Soweto

Twelve-year-old Jabu Shabalala issued an ultimatum to his mother while driving past a group of children on horseback in Soweto.

By Justine Gerardy
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/ 20 October 2008

Government stops Telkom outsourcing

Government intervention has scuppered Telkom’s plans to rush through a restructuring programme, which would have seen its core business outsourced.

By Lloyd Gedye
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Article
/ 20 October 2008

Hybrids made sexy

The new Lexus hybrids are like double-thick chocolate milkshakes without the calories or guilt, writes Sukasha Singh.

By Sukasha Singh
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Article
/ 20 October 2008

Slumming it with the NGO jet-set

The Housing Department and SDI hosted a workshop last weekend focused on building partnerships between slum-dwellers and various governments.

By Niren Tolsi
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Analysis
/ 20 October 2008

Be afraid. Be very afraid

Mature leadership requires the implementation of the post-Polokwane pledge of reconciliation and inclusivity.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 19 October 2008

Alliance calls for focus on poverty, jobs

South Africa should focus on combating poverty and unemployment, its ruling alliance said on Sunday, priorities likely to worry foreign investors.

By Michael Georgy
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/ 19 October 2008

Nzimande lashes ANC dissidents

SACP general secretary and ANC national executive committee (NEC) member Blade Nzimande lashed out at the ANC dissidents on Sunday.

By Jacques Keet
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Article
/ 19 October 2008

Hunt for Aids vaccine pushes on

A year after a setback in the hunt for an HIV/Aids vaccine, researchers say their defeats have forced them to look for new ways of creating a defence.

By Fran Blandy
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/ 19 October 2008

British princes set out on Wild Coast charity trek

Britain’s Prince Harry and Prince William on Saturday began a 1 600km motorbike race across South Africa to raise money for charity.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 October 2008

Antibiotics for the angst

The new Fokofpolisiekar and Van Coke Kartel albums restore some hope to the Afrikaans cultural scene, writes Adriaan Basson.

By Adriaan Basson
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/ 19 October 2008

The message in the song

It was not surprising to see that the two conferences of the ANC this past weekend in Cape Town did their combating through song.

By Mpush Ntabeni
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Article
/ 19 October 2008

Zuma charms at imbizo

ANC president Jacob Zuma used his imbizo in Gauteng last week to brief ANC branches on the party’s reaction to the breakaway faction.

By Mmanaledi Mataboge
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/ 19 October 2008

Suppose there was a meltdown and you weren’t invited

Our government would have taken stakes in the Big Four, say to the tune of R120-billion or so. Now this would be a debate to have locally.

By Kevin Davie
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/ 19 October 2008

R30bn yanked from SA

The cost of offshore borrowing for SA has jumped by 50% in recent weeks while foreigners have withdrawn R30-billion from the country since last month.

By Maya Fisher French
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/ 19 October 2008

Indians could split with Terror

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is becoming concerned that a breakaway party proposed by Mosiuoa Lekota may take with it disaffected activists.

By Niren Tolsi
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Analysis
/ 18 October 2008

New traditions in liberation politics

Compelling as it may be, getting too absorbed in the intrigue of palace politics and personalities will lead us away from clarity in this crisis.

By Suren Pillay
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Article
/ 18 October 2008

Proxy Selebi trial gets going

Case will test whether prosecution deals were justified in the interests of trying to nail Selebi.

By Sam Sole Author and Stefaans Brmmer
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/ 18 October 2008

Another Mbeki supporter purged from union

Trade union supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma scored a victory this week by toppling one of former president Thabo Mbeki’s most vocal supporters.

By Matuma Letsoalo Author
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/ 18 October 2008

Extreme craft meets art

Johannesburg-based sculptor Kim Lieberman is intensely concerned with interconnectedness – between human beings, time and place, idea and concept.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 18 October 2008

‘Expect non-stop action’

Zaida Enver gives the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> the low-down on the Johannesburg International Motor Show.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 18 October 2008

Telkom’s big squeeze

Without Vodacom, Telkom is in for a rough ride, writes Lloyd Gedye.

By Lloyd Gedye
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Article
/ 17 October 2008

ANC rebels surge in seven provinces

Seven provinces could be split by the fracturing of the ANC. The three Capes — Western, Eastern and Northern — are ripe to split.

By Mandy Rossouw, Rapule Tabane, Pearlie Joubert Author, Nic Dawes Author, Mmanaledi Mataboge and Matuma Letsoala
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/ 17 October 2008

Fire breaks out in Pretoria High Court

Police are looking into a possible arson case after a fire broke out in the Pretoria High Court on Friday, the second in about two weeks.

By Staff Reporter
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