Keeping up with the Kunenes is a death trap for SA families, who are mired in horrendous debt, says Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel.
Tiger Woods has dismissed his two-year slump as just one of sport’s "ebbs and flows" while on a surprise visit to Singapore.
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/ 3 November 2011
SA has ranked 15th on an index of nations whose businesses are most likely to use bribery to secure foreign contracts — below other BRICS countries.
The three Pakistan cricketers convicted match-fixing are due to find out if they will spend time in jail for their role in the corruption scandal.
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/ 3 November 2011
A policy which dictates that journalists request permission before interviewing support staff from political parties will be re-considered.
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/ 3 November 2011
Patrick Maqubela’s widow told Jeff Radebe that she believed her husband was addicted to sex because of his extra-marital relationships.
A spokesperson for the transport ministry says reports of Sibusiso Ndebele’s Johannesburg hotel stays are incorrect as he was in Canada at the time.
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/ 2 November 2011
The US has expressed disappointment with Israel’s decision to speed up settlement building following Unesco’s grant to the Palestinians.
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/ 2 November 2011
Britain’s Prince Charles arrived in South Africa on Wednesday for a five-day visit.
President Jacob Zuma has appointed Advocate Michael Hulley, who has represented Zuma previously, as his legal adviser with immediate effect.
Barack Obama topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, while Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin came in at No. 2.
US presidential candidate Herman Cain continues his political courtship while haunted by sexual harassment allegations.
Morgan Tsvangirai says President Robert Mugabe should consider stepping down as old age and health worries catch up with the 87-year-old.
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/ 2 November 2011
The National Union of Mineworkers and Xstrata have reached an agreement on the mining group’s employee share ownership plan.
Fifa is demanding legal documents from Worawi Makudi to answer allegations that $860 000 was spent building football projects on land he owns.
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/ 2 November 2011
A Tunisian court will next week review Tripoli’s demand for the extradition of Libyan ex-prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi.
Kenya says Somali Islamist rebels have received a third planeload of armaments as its forces prepare to push forward against the militants.
The department of higher education has appointed an administrator for the embattled Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 2 November 2011
Egypt’s justice ministry has agreed to a constitutional amendment to allow millions of Egyptians living abroad to vote in parliamentary elections.
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/ 2 November 2011
A game ranger is lucky to be alive after he was "pulled out" of a lion’s jaws in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, SANParks say.
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/ 2 November 2011
Somali pirates have captured a Greek chemical tanker with 22 sailors and are commandeering it to a hideout in the north of the war-torn country.
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/ 2 November 2011
Dona Aida de Jesus is 96 years old and is one of the last custodians of a dying language on Macau, a small island off the coast of Hong Kong.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, should be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, London’s high court has ruled.
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/ 2 November 2011
Prasa has said government could be investing R137-billion in modern rail infrastructure as private funding for the project might be unaffordable.
Former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi had large amounts of cash he could not explain, the Supreme Court of Appeal has heard.
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/ 2 November 2011
Tottenham Hotspur coach Harry Redknapp will miss his team’s Europa League clash due to an unexplained medical procedure scheduled for the same day.
Six arrested in MDC headquarters riot that cops say was sparked when they chased pirate CD vendors inside and had no choice but to teargas everyone.
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/ 2 November 2011
While Maritzburg United held Chiefs to a draw, SuperSport United consolidated their position at the top of the PSL log with a 1-0 win over Santos.
As investigations into Malema’s alleged dodgy dealings hit the headlines, we speak to the M&G’s Rapule Tabane about Malema’s increasingly troubled year.
In the latest tit-for-tat move in a feud sparked by claims of an assassination plot, Senegal has banned any planes from travelling to or from Guinea.
The public works ministry has been found to have made another expensive lease agreement with Roux Shabangu, this time for the head office of the ICD.
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/ 2 November 2011
ANC Youth League spokesperson Floyd Shivambu has appeared in court for calling a Muslim journalist, who does not drink alcohol, a drunkard.