President Jacob Zuma says the government wants more public sector internships to increase job creation and aid skills development.
The ANC says linking sex scandals to the ANC’s elective conference in Mangaung next year is not appropriate.
Polling opened in Liberia’s disputed presidential runoff on Tuesday, one day after several opposition supporters were killed amid a boycott protest.
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The Chamber of Mines and Sasol have expressed reservations about SA’s main climate policy paper, with industry reduction targets a key concern.
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Ian Thorpe’s comeback to competitive swimming has suffered a setback in Beijing, but he says he is "pretty happy" with his results so far.
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has fired its head of equity derivatives and trading business, Allan Thomson, for irregular trading.
After a slur from his former caddy Steve Williams and an uphill battle to return to form, Tiger Woods will have a difficult Australian Open.
The State Security Agency says it’s not aware of the claim that Fikile Mbalula’s short extramarital affair was actually a trap it had set for him.
Sanzar has announced the Boks will face the Pumas in their first match of the Castle Rugby Championship, a replacement tournament for the Tri-Nations.
Parliament’s mining committee is considering summoning Aurora’s Khulubuse Zuma and Zondwa Mandela for a progress report on the Pamodzi debacle.
Muhammad Ali’s greatest foe, boxing legend Joe Frazier, has died just one month after being diagnosed with liver cancer at age 67.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says the woman who claims to be pregnant with his child was paid by intelligence agencies to rubbish his name.
Muhammad Ali’s greatest foe, boxing legend Joe Frazier, has died just one month after being diagnosed with liver cancer at age 67.
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Zimbabwe’s Morgan Tsvangirai has accused Saviour Kasukuwere, a top minister in Robert Mugabe’s party, of orchestrating an attack on an MDC rally.
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An M&G investigative team won the prize for best feature at this year’s Vodacom Journalist of the Year awards.
Government and opposition supporters in the Democratic Republic of Congo clashed in a pre-election fight two days after violence left 15 wounded.
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Sanral says toll account registrations and e-tag distribution for motorists for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project is due to begin next week.
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Three Greenpeace activists have been arrested at the Kusile power station’s construction site in Mpumalanga after scaling a crane.
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Former Land Bank boss Philemon Mohlahlane has appeared in the commercial crimes court charged with embezzling R19-million from the AgriBEE scheme.
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South Africa’s No. 2 player Izak van der Merwe has leaped 17 places in the men’s world tennis rankings after beating US player Jesse Levine.
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Scientists setting out on an undersea expedition say they expect to find new life, after their last trip netted a previously unknown species of squid.
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Burma has been reinstated to the 2018 World Cup qualification tournament after Fifa after disqualification in July this year for crowd violence.
The medical parole bid by Chris Hani’s assassin, Clive Derby-Lewis, is part of a deceitful campaign to get out of jail, the SACP says.
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House prices, still 13% below their 2007 peak, are not rising with inflation — and home property values are set to drop even further, analysts say.
After al-Shabaab’s retreat from Mogadishu, residents displayed a new sense of security by flocking to the beaches for the first time in three years.
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Former Marxist guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega has claimed a third term in office after partial results gave him a strong lead in Nicaragua polls.
Harry Redknapp was pleasantly surprised by his team after his heart surgery in the week, with Spurs’ Premier League 3-1 win against Fulham.
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Two white rhinos were shot dead by poachers on a farm near Hectorspruit at the weekend.
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A Limpopo game ranger who set out to take pictures in the bush on his own has been trampled to death by an elephant.
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Environmental activists are protesting at the site in Mpumalanga where the Kusile coal-fired power station is being constructed, says Greenpeace.
The Greek PM and opposition have agreed on the formation of a new unity government in a bid to break a deadlock and pave the way for an EU bailout.
Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing is finally over, but his fate will not be made public for at least another week.