The UN’s COP17 climate negotiations have begun in Durban, where UN officials, NGOs and representatives of 194 countries are working to secure an agreement.
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/ 29 November 2011
According to a report by the Auditor General, the Gauteng health department has lost millions of rands through maladministration and tender rigging.
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/ 29 November 2011
Small traders in India have planned demonstrations over the state’s plan to give companies such as Tesco access to the Indian market.
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/ 29 November 2011
A gel researchers once hailed as a breakthrough in the prevention of HIV transmission among women, has been shown to be ineffective.
Voter intimidation, electoral fraud and delays have been reported during the Democratic Republic of Congo’s second election, which began on Monday.
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/ 28 November 2011
From the silly to the serious, here are the articles you liked most this year.
Dr Conrad Murray is due to be sentenced on Tuesday over the death of Michael Jackson with prosecutors asking for the maximum four year jail term.
The ConCourt will on Tuesday hear an application related to a complaint against Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe from three years ago.
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/ 28 November 2011
The Australian Rugby Union has announced that the British and Irish Lions will play the Wallabies in three Tests on their tour of Australia in 2013.
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/ 28 November 2011
The Global Fund for Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria is in financial crisis, putting pressure on Southern African HIV programmes for treatment.
Journalists, on the other hand, are daunted by the responsibilities that would come with self-regulation.
Al-Shabaab rebels have banned some UN and international aid agencies from working in Somalia, seizing and looting some of their offices.
ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu says the party’s task team, investigating nationalisation of the country’s mines, has "almost finished its work".
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/ 28 November 2011
An Eastern Cape Democratic Alliance councillor has scooped the title of Mr Gay South Africa 2011 in Johannesburg.
The ANC’s NEC has raised concerns over leaders leaking information, with Gwede Mantashe saying the party should do what it can to discourage it.
Mac Maharaj has not yet decided whether to press charges against <i>City Press</i> for republishing portions of his 2003 interview with the Scorpions.
Although the eurozone crisis poses "considerable risks" to SA’s economy, there is no need for policy changes, says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
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/ 28 November 2011
In the wake of the start of the COP17 conference on climate change, six more people have been killed in floods after sever rains in KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 28 November 2011
Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s motorcade was threatened and stoned in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the weekend.
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/ 28 November 2011
World champions India will count on their young stars to deliver when they take on fast-improving West Indies in an ODI series beginning this week.
The ACT Brumbies say there’s no way former Springbok coach Jake White will be leaving them to take up the reins of England’s national side.
A local fashion designer plans to launch a clothing line named after ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, in time for Mangaung.
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/ 28 November 2011
Protesters against the Protection of State Information Bill are out to weaken and undermine state security, says the SACP in Gauteng.
Egyptians are embarking on the first big test of their revolution against Hosni Mubarak, amid vociferous distrust of the interim military caretakers.
Despite weekend clashes that sparked fears of a delay, voting in the DRC has begun, with incumbent Joseph Kabila pitted against 10 challengers.
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/ 28 November 2011
How will historians remember 2011, the year that, according to satirists, has already used up the next decade’s entire supply of news?
Arab states voted on Sunday to impose economic sanctions on Syria following President Bashar al-Assad’s failure to halt a crackdown on an uprising.
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/ 27 November 2011
A new study raises fresh questions over the alleged attack on New York hotel maid that cost the IMF boss his job.
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/ 27 November 2011
Wits will square up against Orlando Pirates in the Telkom Knockout final after the Students struck three times in the second half to beat Santos 3-0.
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/ 27 November 2011
Judges criticised the ANC’s plan to assess the Constitutional Court’s judgments, according to a report on Sunday.
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/ 27 November 2011
The Protection of State Information Bill would not only silence the media, but also the public, the Law Society of SA said on Sunday.
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/ 27 November 2011
Orlando Pirates coach Julio Leal hopes his team’s latest 3-1 win against Golden Arrows in the Telkom Knockout semifinals will silence his critics.