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A state-appointed body in Burma has urged officials to release "prisoners of conscience", in a sign the country may soon free political prisoners.
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Police have discovered an arms cache containing firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and police and army uniforms in a house in Centurion.
The judge presiding over the Terre’Blanche murder trial will today decide whether to allow incriminating statements made by one of the accused.
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The SA Football Association has officially protested to the body overseeing the Africa Cup of Nations after Bafana’s controversial elimination.
Controversial Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir will appear in court today charged with insurance fraud over false cancer claims.
Peter de Villiers says that while he hasn’t actually resigned from his job as Springbok coach, he’s resigned to the fact that his days are numbered.
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/ 10 October 2011
The glaring absence of Chris Gayle stood out as the West Indies prepared to open their Bangladesh tour with a Twenty20 international in Bangladesh.
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/ 10 October 2011
Gwede Mantashe is to lead a high-level delegation to China in a visit the ANC insists has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama visa debacle.
Very few of the LGBT people and their supporters who celebrated Pride month recently could have known of an attack on their constitutional freedoms.
Michael Sata promised more money in workers’ pockets during his presidential campaign and they are now holding him to it with wildcat strikes.
An bail affidavit submitted by Eugene Terre’Blanche murder-accused Chris Mahlangu could prejudice him, his advocate argued on Tuesday.
Cosatu is to picket outside the houses of Pick n Pay chairperson Raymond Ackerman and Western Cape premier Helen Zille over the Walmart-Massmart deal.
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Saccawu wants Walmart and Massmart to increase their planned fund to support SA suppliers from R100-million to at least R500-million.
The teen accused of killing Eugene Terre’Blanche played no part in the murder, but he had been threatened on the AWB leader’s farm, his lawyer says.
Court proceedings in the Eugene Terre’Blanche murder trial began in the high court sitting in Ventersdorp.
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South Africans wary of letting census workers into their homes should relax, says Stats SA, as all field agents have all been thoroughly vetted.
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A Chinese official says there would be no "major" change to population control measures, cooling hopes it may ease the one-child policy.
About R700 000 has been budgeted for car rentals for President Jacob Zuma’s wives in the next two years, according to a report.
The senior Springbok players will arrive back in South Africa this afternoon, a day after their World Cup quarterfinal defeat to Australia.
The trial of hip hop artist Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye and Themba Tshabalala is expected to resume in the Protea Magistrate’s Court today.
There will be no protests by AWB members at the murder trial of two workers accused of killing right-wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, the group says.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says Europe must "have resolved its problems" by the time G20 leaders meet in November.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says private healthcare is a ‘brutal system’ because it has commercialised an essential service.
Gauteng Legislature speaker Lindiwe Maseko has cancelled a debate on toll roads scheduled for this week because the ANC is divided on the issue.
High-ranking ANC officials visited China this week in what could be seen as the party’s unreserved support for Beijing.
Rebel groups fighting over diamond mines in the Central African Republic have signed a ceasefire, ending weeks of deadly violence.
A unit of state-owned freight company Transnet has opened a line to transport magnetite for export after disruptions caused by damage to a bridge.
President Bashar al-Assad has renewed a pledge of reforms as Syria threatened retaliation if countries recognised an opposition bloc.
The African National Congress’s Johannesburg region elected new leaders during the weekend.
A $1.2-billion World Bank credit to Bangladesh to finance the country’s longest river bridge has been suspended.
The National Youth Development Agency allegedly spent R250 000 on party supplies for the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students last year.
Robert Mugabe is expected to ask Archbishop Williams about homosexuals and sanctions as breakaway Anglicans demonstrate against his visit to Zimbabwe.