The Democratic Alliance has welcomed Cabinet’s decision to appoint a task team to look into the Gauteng tolling system.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula will appoint a committee to look into a KPMG audit’s findings against Cricket South Africa.
Cricket SA has cancelled its advertising with 702 after comments made by John Robbie about its bonus scandal.
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/ 16 October 2011
Casey Stoner won his fifth straight Australian Grand Prix and clinched his second MotoGP series championship.
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/ 16 October 2011
Under pressure from Apple, and with a clientele furious over a lengthy blackout, the pioneering firm has suffered a startling fall from grace.
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/ 16 October 2011
The 80-year-old actor, who starred as JR in long-running US series <i>Dallas</i>, will go ahead with filming TNT’s revival of the soap.
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/ 16 October 2011
Three Zimbabwean women have appeared in court charged with indecent assault for a spree of sex attacks on male hitchhikers.
With two Mormons contending for the presidency and a growing media profile, the church has never been so popular — nor so closely scrutinised.
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/ 15 October 2011
The eurozone will decide at a summit next weekend about how much of a loss private investors will be asked to take on Greek bonds.
Nine Liberian opposition parties say they will reject the results of this week’s presidential election, alleging massive fraud.
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/ 15 October 2011
The process of getting a driver’s license may take up to four years if a new proposal is given the go ahead, the Department of Transport says.
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says accusations that two Iranians planned to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington were "meaningless".
Cabinet has appointed a task team to look into the controversial Gauteng tolling system, the Department of Transport says.
ANCYL President Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing is hearing testimony from Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale.
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/ 15 October 2011
Malagasy politicians have collectively agreed on how to implement a road map for ending a leadership crisis in the country, the SADC says.
Durban will be the place where the Kyoto Protocol is either buried or resurrected.
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/ 14 October 2011
Pope Benedict XVI has called for a "a solid platform of moral virtues" in Italy, following recent sex scandals involving the prime minister.
The news that Telkom’s data revenue had shrunk, could be the final straw to investors still toying with the view that Telkom is neglected.
From the Newton of poets, we learn to recognise the value of past excellence but also to challenge what is outmoded and retrogressive
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/ 14 October 2011
Conservative Malaysia’s controversial Obedient Wife Club has released a book encouraging men in polygamous Muslim marriages to have group sex.
To maintain Liberia’s presidency, Nobel laureate Ellen Sirleaf must join forces with a man who ordered troops to cut off the ears of a former leader.
Photographs of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s body have been removed from a Facebook group’s page after the slain right-wing leader’s family intervened.
The start of SA’s summer international cricket season was marked by a five-wicket loss at the hands of arch-rivals Australia at Newlands in Cape Town.
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/ 14 October 2011
They call her Ma Ellen, a fond nickname for Africa’s most powerful woman. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
The Dalai Lama debacle is simply just another symptom of a country losing its independence.
Tuelo Gabonewe is the author of <i>Planet Savage</i>, a work of fiction.
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/ 14 October 2011
Hostile neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea passed the bloodiest decade of war in 2000, with a tragedy that consumed about 80 000 lives.
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/ 14 October 2011
Economist says the bailout money would have achieved more if it had simply been given to the public.
Environmental art exhibition aims to provoke us to reflect by avoiding the usual noisy proselytising.
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/ 14 October 2011
The visit of deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe to China two weeks ago is recognition of China’s growing footprint in Africa.
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/ 14 October 2011
Readers weigh in on Walter Sisulu University, Dalai Lama, President Jacob Zuma and the ANC.
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/ 14 October 2011
On the 60th anniversary of Herman Charles
Bosman’s death, we publish ‘Homecoming’
from <i>The Complete Voorkamer Stories</i>.