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/ 20 December 2011
Algerian troops have crossed into Mali to help government forces combat groups affiliated to al-Qaeda, officials and witnesses have said.
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/ 20 December 2011
Trade union Solidarity confirmed having received four section 189 layoff notifications from Sappi, which affects about 959 employees.
Advocate Willem Heath says the impression that the head of the Special Investigating Unit was partisan could undermine the unit’s work.
The North Korean leader, or ‘Ever-Victorious, Iron-Willed Commander’, was a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor and very fresh sashimi — and a whizz at golf.
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/ 20 December 2011
Voting for the 20 ANC provincial executive committee positions in Limpopo were still underway on Tuesday morning.
A study by Interpol estimates that, in South Africa, a woman is raped every 17 seconds and one in four South African women suffers domestic violence.
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/ 20 December 2011
China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing’s economic interests in the region.
Volunteers are rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that are little more than debris after a fire ravaged the Institute d’Egypte.
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South Korea’s government sent condolences on Tuesday to the North Korean people for the death of their leader Kim Jong-Il.
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is to visit South Africa from January 5 to 7 2012.
The chief prosecutor at the ICC has appealed its decision to drop charges against Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana and order his release.
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/ 20 December 2011
The presidency has appointed Francois Groepe as deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank.
Gabon’s ruling party has claimed winning 114 out of Parliament’s 120 seats in a legislative election largely boycotted by the opposition.
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/ 20 December 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US hopes the new North Korean leadership chooses to guide their nation onto the path of peace.
Virat Kohli top-scored with 132 as India was dismissed for 269 in its first innings on the second day of its three-day tour match.
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/ 20 December 2011
The National Union of Mineworkers has urged First Uranium to fire its CEO after the mining company announced it might retrench 1800 mineworkers.
Disgraced former police chief Jackie Selebi has been rushed to hospital in a serious condition for the second time this month.
Uncapped fast bowler Kanishka Alvitigala and seamer Dhammika Prasad have flown out to South Africa to join Sri Lanka’s struggling Test team.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela on Monday rejected a request from the media to investigate the state’s arguments on the info Bill.
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/ 20 December 2011
The Republican presidential race has been thrown wide open two weeks before the first votes in the battle for the party’s nomination.
The latest round of fighting that began on Friday has left 12 dead and 500 injured, according to health ministry officials.
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/ 20 December 2011
The freshest local seasonal ingredients served with gracious and knowledgeable efficiency: these are the hallmarks of the Japanese dining experience.
Proteas medium fast bowler Vernon Philander rocketed up 12 places on the Reliance ICC Test Bowling rankings released on Monday.
Nelson Mandela’s personal chef Xoliswa Ndoyiya talks about what it was like cooking for the former statesman. She has released her first cookbook.
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/ 19 December 2011
North Korea has test-fired a short-range missile on its eastern coast on the day its leader Kim Jong-Il’s death was announced.
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/ 19 December 2011
Saab Automobile has filed for bankruptcy, bringing to an end two years of efforts to rescue the iconic brand that manufactured cars for six decades.
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/ 19 December 2011
Barack Obama faces a new battle after Republicans in the House of Representatives rejected a tax deal already approved by the Senate.
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Saudi billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Company announced a combined investment of $300-million in Twitter.
Suspended ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has been nominated to serve on the ANC’s Limpopo provincial executive committee.
Suspected South African drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda will only appear before a Thai court in three months time.
As times changed around him, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il remained firmly in control of his country, and keeping the world on edge.
South Africa had met the challenges of 2011 with "fortitude and innovation", President Jacob Zuma said in his end of the year speech on Sunday.