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/ 19 December 2011
French authorities claim no-go zones aim to stop pestering of foreign visitors by ‘delinquents’ run by criminal gangs.
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi has said he is worried about the amount of corruption and self-serving ambition that has flooded into politics.
The president of France’s professional football league has called for an investigation into claims that Auxerre’s Kamel Chafni was racially abused.
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/ 18 December 2011
Judge President of the Land Claims Court, Fikile Bam, has died at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.
Israel is wrapping up preparations to release 550 Palestinian prisoners in the final phase of a swap with Hamas militants.
England’s Ian Poulter won the Australian Masters, spoiling Geoff Ogilvy’s bid for a victory on his boyhood course at the Victoria Golf Club.
Blackburn Rovers’ manager Steve Kean admits he faces the sack unless his struggling side can climb out of the Premier League relegation zone.
The ANC in Limpopo has voted Cassel Mathale as the head of its leadership at its seventh provincial conference at the University of Limpopo.
Former president Thabo Mbeki says South Africans deserve to know facts about the country’s history which are not yet public knowledge.
A photojournalist has been assaulted at the ANC Limpopo elective conference while investigating the alleged printing of duplicate voting tags.
Nato has ended its training mission in Iraq. Hopes for an extension deal collapsed as Baghdad refused to grant the troops immunity from prosecution.
Fifa and the International Football Association are to consider changing laws to allow women to wear a headscarf when playing in official matches.
Morocco will become the first African country to host the annual Club World Cup of continental winners, Fifa President Sepp Blatter announced.
Gabon’s voters went to the polls in legislative elections expected to hand an easy victory to President Ali Bongo’s ruling party.
The Arab League expects Syria to agree soon to allow observers in to monitor and mediate the protection of civilians while peace talks get under way.
A panel of seven supreme court justices will hear Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault accusations.
ANC provincial chairperson Cassel Mathale has spoken in favour of nationalisation at the party’s Limpopo elective conference.
One year on from the Arab Spring uprising following a death in Tunisia, it spread to Egypt, Libya and Syria. The youth revolt has truly gone global.
The US is lifting ‘most’ sanctions against Libya to recognise the country’s political transition but is keeping Muammar Gaddafi’s assets frozen.
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/ 17 December 2011
The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion has rounded up the most irritating words to hear, with ‘whatever’ and ‘you know’ topping the list.
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/ 17 December 2011
North Korea has agreed to suspend its enriched-uranium nuclear weapons programme, a key US demand for the resumption of disarmament talks.
The DRC’s supreme court has upheld President Joseph Kabila’s victory following a contested election, raising fears of more violence.
ANC members are keeping themselves entertained in Polokwane by singing while waiting to be accredited for the party’s Limpopo elective conference.
Drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda told her mother she would be out of the country, but not in Thailand — she said she was headed for Brazil for vacation.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has urged international donors not to let concerns for gay rights affect the country’s need for developmental aid.
Umkhonto WeSizwe (MK) marked its 50th anniversary by urging the state to look after ex-combatants who fought against apartheid.
Egyptian Islamist parties were leading liberals in the parliamentary election’s second round, according to an initial count a day after polls closed.
Tunisia has decided to lift an international arrest warrant for alleged corruption issued against Suha Arafat, widow of the former Palestinian leader.
Shrien Dewani must wait until 2012 to learn the outcome of his court battle against extradition to South Africa over his wife Anni’s murder.
President Jacob Zuma has opened a road linking the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park in Pretoria, a fitting act for the Day of Reconciliation.
India’s Olympic Chief has said that any decision to boycott the 2012 London Games over Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the Games rested with government.
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/ 16 December 2011
The morning session of day two of the Test against Sri-Lanka belonged to the visitors, with them taking three wickets for 46 runs before lunch.