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Australian airline Qantas said its customers will be able to access the internet inflight on certain services from February.
Sachin Tendulkar sacrificed a century to give his teammates batting time ahead of the Test series with Australia in the Canberra drawn tour match.
The North Gauteng High Court has ordered the correctional services department to release two of the Waterkloof Four into house arrest.
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/ 16 December 2011
Record-breaking sprinter Usain Bolt says he will not be regarded a legend of athletics unless he successfully defends his three Olympic titles.
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/ 16 December 2011
The New Zealand Rugby Union have appointed Steve Hansen as the new coach of the world champion All Blacks, replacing Graham Henry.
The celebrated journalist, writer and unshakeable secularist, Christopher Hitchens, has died from complications of oesophageal cancer.
The celebrated journalist, writer and unshakeable secularist, Christopher Hitchens, has died from complications of oesophageal cancer.
There was mixed reaction from parties over the resignation of newly-appointed SIU head Willem Heath, with the ANC saying it was "regrettable".
The ICC chief prosecutor said there are suspicions that the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime.
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/ 15 December 2011
Police have laid criminal charges against two media outlets for setting up surveillance cameras outside former president Nelson Mandela’s home.
The finance ministry has "expressed dismay" at an article published in the <em>M&G</em> on November 15 and denied any disunity in the department.
Former NDPP Bulelani Ngcuka has commended Willem Heath’s resignation as SIU head, saying the move was in the best interests of the country and SIU.
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/ 15 December 2011
The Producer Price Index lowers the trajectory for inflation expectations on the production side and early next year could see single digits.
The Supreme Court of the DRC has begun hearing a suit for the annulment of the presidential election lodged by an opponent of President Joseph Kabila.
Parliament has stressed that it has exclusive powers to regulate and control its internal procedures.
The correctional services department has at last confirmed that two of the Waterkloof Four were released under house arrest on Thursday afternoon.
Willem Heath has resigned as head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) after filling the role for less than a month.
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/ 15 December 2011
Artscape and the Siyasanga Cape Town Theatre Company present an open-air production of Aristophanes’s <em>The Birds</em>.
The North Gauteng High Court has ruled that Sishen Iron Ore Company holds 100% of the mining rights over Sishen — the country’s largest iron mine.
The department of correctional services has denied that two of the ‘Waterkloof Four’ will be released on parole as claimed by the family.
The correctional services department says it’s under no obligation to provide details on apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock’s parole hearing.
A regional association of accounting firms says that the cost of an extra public holiday will result in an estimated R7-billion loss in turnover.
South Africa’s difficulty in implementing its policies is the country’s biggest single problem as far as development is concerned.
The ANC and the Congress of South African Trade Unions have agreed to continue discussions on the controversial Protection of State Information Bill.
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/ 15 December 2011
Malawi will review laws banning homosexuality in response to public opinion, according to reports.+
DA MP Masizole Mnqasela says his support for ousted party parliamentary leader Athol Trollip is behind the charges laid against him this week.
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/ 15 December 2011
News agencies who have set up cameras outside Nelson Mandela’s home in Qunu say they are not spying on the former president: the cameras are off.
The governing party should not get sidetracked by infighting, writes <b>William Gumede</b>. Perhaps it needs American-style presidential primaries.
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/ 15 December 2011
Opium cultivation is back on the rise in Myanmar and Laos, with impoverished farmers lured by higher prices, according to a United Nations report.
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/ 15 December 2011
The rows over Mac Maharaj and Willem Heath are a new phase in an old war between the acolytes of Thabo Mbeki and the minds behind Operation Vula.
Shortly before the 2002 Zimbabwean elections, Justices Dikgang Moseneke and Sisi Khampepe was appointed to assess the issues relating to the elections
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/ 15 December 2011
Syria has reacted with predictable fury to the call by the UN human rights commissioner for it to be investigated for crimes against humanity.