The University of Johannesburg says it will pay the tuition fees of the man whose mother was killed in a stampede at its Bunting Road campus.
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/ 11 January 2012
The US was told not to interfere in China’s affairs after it voiced concern over the spate of self-immolations by Tibetan monks in the area.
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/ 11 January 2012
Malawi has signed a $1-billion deal with Brazil’s Vale for the construction of a rail line to transport 18-million tonnes of coal from Mozambique.
An Arab League observer has left Syria, saying it has turned the monitoring mission sent to check its compliance with a peace plan into a "farce".
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/ 11 January 2012
<i>The Satanic Verses</i> author’s latest visit to his Indian homeland has angered some Muslim clerics.
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/ 11 January 2012
Rights campaigners have condemned a video showing women from a primitive tribe dancing for tourists in exchange for food on far-flung Indian islands.
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/ 11 January 2012
Horror film <i>Ghost</i>, which shows an evil spirit in female form being crucified, has been toned down to avoid offending country’s Christians.
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/ 11 January 2012
The FNB Estate Agent Survey has found that a growing number of first time buyers have become a more significant source of residential demand in 2011.
Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s fourth speech since a violent uprising began combines defiance with talks of reforms and praise for security forces.
Eight dehorned rhino carcasses have been discovered in the Kruger National Park during routine patrols in the Pretoriuskop and Sabie areas.
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/ 11 January 2012
Andrea Petkovic has withdrawn from the Australian Open with a stress fracture in her lower back that could keep her side-lined for two months.
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/ 11 January 2012
An Iranian official says Israel was behind the magnetic car bomb that killed a nuclear scientist in Tehran, citing similar attacks on scientists.
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/ 11 January 2012
A scientist has been killed and two people injured in a blast from a magnetic bomb attached to a car by a motorcyclist in Tehran.
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/ 11 January 2012
US President Barack Obama says he is sending five American military officers to support the United Nations mission in South Sudan.
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/ 11 January 2012
Police fired tear gas on protesters angry over unemployment and housing shortages in a southern Algerian gas town, injuring ten.
New Zealand rugby player Willie Ripia has resigned from Australia’s Western Force Super 15 club after he was allegedly caught stealing from teammates.
The symbolic Doomsday Clock is creeping closer to the apocalypse as scientists maintaining the device moved it one minute closer to the zero hour.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare has called for a ban on the ivory trade after Malaysia seized a shipment of illegal tusks from Cape Town.
Mitt Romney has won the New Hampshire Republican primary, a major step toward cementing a position as the party’s choice to run against Barack Obama.
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/ 10 January 2012
A French report has cleared Paul Kagame’s aides of a plane attack that killed French nationals and was one of the catalysts of the Rwandan genocide.
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/ 10 January 2012
South Africa and Cuba have signed a memorandum to put a stamp on the cooperation between the two country’s armies.
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/ 10 January 2012
Nigeria’s street protests against rising fuel prices have resulted in ethnic attacks, leaving five dead and 10 000 displaced since Monday.
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/ 10 January 2012
Guinea-Bissau’s opposition has outright rejected the country’s proposed interim leader after the death of President Malam Bacai Sanha on Monday.
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/ 10 January 2012
The bail application of Dobrosav Gavric, who was allegedly driving underworld figure Cyril Beeka when he was shot dead in March, has been postponed.
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/ 10 January 2012
TopTV says it will be at the South Gauteng High Court on Friday to fight Icasa’s interdict to stop it from launching a 24-hour pornography channel.
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/ 10 January 2012
Harry Redknapp says there is still a future for Steven Pienaar at Tottenham despite him making just five league appearances since joining the club.
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/ 10 January 2012
The Constitutional Court’s is due to confirm or reject of a high court ruling that some sections of the Children’s Act are unconstitutional.
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/ 10 January 2012
A medical scheme anti-fraud survey by KPMG from 2007 to 2009 has shown that the number of medical aid fraud cases have decreased.
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/ 10 January 2012
Study suggests people who use nicotine gum or patches to quit smoking are just as likely to have relapsed a few years later.
Neither the University of Johannesburg nor the metro police is willing to accept responsibility for the fatal stampede at the Bunting Road campus.
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/ 10 January 2012
Environmental groups have hailed a ban on new mining claims around the Grand Canyon, saying it will secure Barack Obama’s green legacy.
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/ 10 January 2012
Finnish company rumoured to have a marketing budget of between $100-million and $200-million for its latest push.