Identifying practical steps to create jobs is the main focus of a meeting of the ANC’s top brass under way in Midrand on Thursday.
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/ 13 January 2011
An application to stop estate agent Wendy Machanik Properties from operating was postponed in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday.
The senior state prosecutor will decide how to proceed on the alleged fracas between two policemen and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards.
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/ 13 January 2011
Sporadic sounds of clashes and rounds of gunfire echoed in the suburbs of Tunisia’s capital as youths defied curfew.
Alassane Ouattara rejected president incumbent Laurent Gbagbo’s charges that his camp was behind deadly unrest in parts of Abidjan.
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/ 13 January 2011
A new business in Georgia is offering single women who need household help the chance to hire ‘husbands’ by the hour.
The South African Zionist Federation has distanced itself from a petition to remove Archbishop Desmond Tutu as patron of the Holocaust Centre.
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/ 13 January 2011
Eight unlicensed firearms were found in a home in Boksburg North, Johannesburg on Thursday, Gauteng police said.
The extradition of Shrien Dewani, implicated in the murder of his bride, Anni, in SA last year, is on course, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe says.
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/ 13 January 2011
An economy "constrained by a severe lack of skills" was behind the launch of the third National Skills Development Strategy, said Blade Nzimande.
Hezbollah has walked out of the unity government in Beirut, triggering its collapse. So what happens next?
Sarah Palin’s use of the phrase "blood libel" could scarcely be more incendiary, especially in a religious country like the United States.
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/ 13 January 2011
Stop the presses — completely. The world’s first iPad newspaper, the <em>Daily</em>, is prepping for launch.
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/ 13 January 2011
Australian medical officials braced on Thursday for rampant disease in the country’s swamped north-east.
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/ 13 January 2011
Lebanon’s president called on the Cabinet, which collapsed with the resignation of 11 ministers led by Hezbollah, to continue in a caretaker capacity.
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/ 13 January 2011
Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg are the most affordable cities for home buyers, a property group said on Thursday.
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/ 13 January 2011
While education authorities claiming the first day of the 2011 school year "proceeded well", news reports on Thursday reveal a very different picture.
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/ 13 January 2011
South Africans should continue to use electricity more efficiently, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Wednesday.
Rafael Nadal has already achieved a career Grand Slam but has never owned all four Major titles at the same time.
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/ 13 January 2011
(DRC government troops have been blamed for abuses, including rapes and looting, in of Sud-Kivu to avenge the death of one of their colleagues.
No problems were reported on the first day of the school year on Wednesday, education authorities said.
Police have seized a service pistol and cellphone belonging to the police officer who had an altercation with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, reports say.
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/ 12 January 2011
Prominent people have signed a petition in support of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, after he was labelled an anti-Semite for his views on Israel.
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/ 12 January 2011
South Africa lost 333 rhinos to poaching in 2010, the highest number ever recorded, the country’s parks agency said on Wednesday.
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/ 12 January 2011
Early estimates indicate 32 people died and nine were injured in the recent floods in Kwazulu-Natal and Guateng.
Sarah Palin on Wednesday slammed as "blood libel" the charges that overheated political rhetoric contributed to a weekend shooting rampage in Arizona.
A petition has accused Archbishop Desmond Tutu of "demonising Israel" and its organisers demand he be axed as the patron of local holocaust centres.
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/ 12 January 2011
The City of Cape Town has commissioned a legal review of its new liquor by-law before any amendments are gazetted.
Gauteng police have no excuse not to attend to a crime timeously as they now have more resources, police chief Bheki Cele said on Wednesday.
So what does an ANC gala dinner look like? We take you inside the 99th birthday celebration dinner in Polokwane.
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/ 12 January 2011
Trade union Nehawu on Wednesday called on President Jacob Zuma to limit or ban foreign land ownership and to speed up land reform.
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/ 12 January 2011
Business confidence in SA improved slightly in December but remains vulnerable due to shaky investment and household spending, a survey shows.