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Hundreds of children and teachers were unable to attend school in the North West after they were left stranded due to heavy rain and flooding.
Demonstrators in Lebanon’s Sunni bastion of Tripoli torched an al-Jazeera van while protesting the likely appointment of a Hezbollah-backed premier.
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/ 25 January 2011
WHO has turned to mobile instant messaging and social networks MXit and JamiiX to prepare communities in southeast Asia for disaster management.
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/ 25 January 2011
Majority of South African online shoppers are satisfied with their overall online shopping experience says the latest MasterCard Worldwide survey.
The ANC has lost 38 wards in local government elections over the last four years, the latest South Africa Survey has shown.
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/ 25 January 2011
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday the global economic recovery was gaining traction.
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/ 25 January 2011
Read it and tell us what you think. <i>M&G</i> readers have their say.
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/ 25 January 2011
Healthy living pioneer Jack LaLanne’s feats included holding the world press-up record and towing boats while handcuffed.
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/ 25 January 2011
Criminal gangs looking for expensive vehicles are increasingly targeting car dealerships, with 11 vehicles being stolen from showrooms in the Cape.
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/ 25 January 2011
Book cover depicting Eduardo Labarca apparently urinating on author’s grave provokes outrage in Argentina.
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/ 25 January 2011
Healthy living pioneer Jack LaLanne’s feats included holding the world press-up record and towing boats while handcuffed.
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/ 25 January 2011
The simple solution to the perennial problems of pollution, smell and excessive water use on pig farms? Train the pigs to use a toilet.
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/ 25 January 2011
The police did offer the French couple who died in the Karoo a chance to surrender, French consul Antoine Michon told the <i>Star</i> on Tuesday.
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/ 25 January 2011
Drogba scored a wonder goal on Monday, ensuring the defending champions win back-to-back premiership matches for the first time since October.
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/ 25 January 2011
French president says his ministers underestimated "sense of suffocation" among Tunisians under Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Kim Clijsters warned she was hitting top form, while world number two Vera Zvonareva hopes to prove her critics wrong.
Roger Federer cruised into his eighth consecutive Australian Open semifinal with a dominating straight-sets victory over his Swiss teammate Wawrinka.
After a rocky start, SA President Jacob Zuma enters his third year in office with a firm grip on power and grand plans to transform the economy.
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/ 25 January 2011
England spinner Graeme Swann is returning home from Australia because of a lower back strain but should be fit for the World Cup, his coach says.
AfriForum received plea documents from Julius Malema on Monday afternoon defending his right to sing the "shoot the boer" song.
Swift condemnation followed a suicide blast at Moscow’s main airport that killed 35 people on Monday.
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/ 24 January 2011
Developing farmers were the worst victims of the floods that have hit various parts of the country, a parliamentary committee said on Monday.
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/ 24 January 2011
Ireland’s crumbling government held crisis talks with opposition parties on Monday over their demands to bring elections forward to February.
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/ 24 January 2011
Anglo Platinum, the world’s top platinum producer, on Monday halted operations at its Thembelani mine after a worker died in an accident.
Springbok rugby players Bjorn Basson and Chiliboy Ralepelle will appear before an SA Rugby Union judicial committee in Cape Town on Tuesday morning.
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/ 24 January 2011
Cooperative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka will meet his Gauteng counterpart in an effort to help sort out Johannesburg’s, and SA’s, billing mess.
Thabo Mbeki says only talks between Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo and rival Alassane Ouattara can end their political deadlock.
Zimbabwean police drove out scores of so-called war veterans after they declared themselves new owners of several tourist resorts, a minister said.
As Swedish prosecutors’ sex-crime allegations against Julian Assange play out, one aspect merits scrutiny.
Justice Edwin Cameron has justly been heralded as an exemplar of the kind of judge required to meet the transformative demands of our Constitution.
The DA is to apply for access to a secret report on how spy tapes were passed on to lawyers defending President Jacob Zuma against criminal charges.
Many rural areas in South Africa are in dire straits. Turning this around is fertile ground for debate.