The ANC is undermining its mission of creating five million new jobs through poor foreign policy, nepotism and ill-conceived legislation, the DA says.
<i>M&G</i> Online Editor Chris Roper fields questions from the audience about who should police the internet, at a recent Critical Thinking Forum on the topic.
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The BBC has apologised to the Mexican ambassador to London for remarks made about him on a TV show — but defended its jokes about the country.
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/ 4 February 2011
Malawian lawmakers will next week debate a law change to criminalise public farting.
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/ 4 February 2011
Just after their failure to persuade the Hawks to arrest Israeli politician Tzipi Livni, anti-Israel hardliners are clamouring at the door of the NPA.
Research shows that parents do not know how to protect kids using the internet.
Continuing expansion in China has offset the reduction in carbon emissions in recession hit Western countries.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s biggest opposition group, has no ambitions to run for presidency, a leading member of the group said on Friday
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Absa Bank will be the new official sponsors of the Springboks, the South African Rugby Union (Saru) announced on Thursday.
Speaking at the inauguration of the new Health Professions Council on Thursday, Motsoaledi said: "We cannot afford this commercial health system."
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/ 4 February 2011
Ever have a yen to be a sumo wrestler? Curious to see how you might look bulked up like a behemoth and with a traditional wrestler’s topknot?
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The department of mineral resources has not been biased in its dealings on the Sishen mining rights, director general Sandile Nogxina said.
The response of mayors to billing problems and to the floods would influence their nomination as ANC candidates in the upcoming local elections.
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/ 3 February 2011
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned the Christ Embassy church from airing its claims of faith healing, following a complaint from the TAC.
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/ 3 February 2011
Nearly three million lives have been saved by HIV/Aids treatment, according to a new book commissioned by the United Nations.
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/ 3 February 2011
The United States on Thursday condemned a "concerted campaign" of intimidation against international journalists covering the unrest in Egypt.
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/ 3 February 2011
Injured South African photographer Joao Silva will try on his first pair of prosthetic legs in Washington on Monday, his friend Greg Marinovich said.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has not been silenced on the 92-year-old former president’s health condition, its CEO Achmat Dangor said on Thursday.
With the recent WikiLeaks debacle and the ANC Youth League’s threat to shut down Twitter, the question of policing the internet has been a prominent one of late. Some of the most outspoken minds on this topic sat down to hash it out.
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World food prices surged to an historic peak in January for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated UN’s food-price index.
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/ 3 February 2011
Kirsten Nematandani, the president of Safa, admitted on Thursday they had bungled Bafana Bafana’s upcoming friendly fixture, now due against Kenya.
Zimbabwe’s high commissioner to SA praised SA as an "all-weather friend" when he handed his letters of credence to President Jacob Zuma on Thursday.
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find it exhausting to write about race in contemporary South Africa, says <b>Milisuthando Bongela</b>.
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/ 3 February 2011
World food prices hit a new record high in January after rising for a seventh consecutive month, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says.
Former president Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a respiratory infection and is in "good health", the government said on Thursday.
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/ 3 February 2011
Sudan widened its crackdown on the opposition by arresting 10 journalists from the Communist Party newspaper ahead of anti-government protests.
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/ 3 February 2011
A complaint by the Norwegian embassy against government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi is "neither here nor there", Collins Chabane said on Thursday.
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/ 3 February 2011
A man in police custody has confessed to killing a prominent Ugandan gay rights activist who was pictured last year in an anti-gay tabloid, AFP says.
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/ 3 February 2011
Business confidence held steady in January compared with December, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Thursday.
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/ 3 February 2011
A survey of oyster habitats around the world released on Thursday found that they are disappearing fast and 85% of their reefs have been lost.
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A Brazilian goalkeeper who injured his knee while celebrating a goal he scored with a 90th-minute header will be sidelined for at least six months.
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World oil prices extended their gains in Asian trade on Thursday after the political crisis in Egypt erupted into violence.