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/ 29 October 2010
<i>M&G</i> reviewers listens to the latest by The Black Angel, Malachai and Suzanne Vega.
<b>Loyiso Gola</b> says he listens ‘to whatever is different to what’s coming out in the mainstream’.
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/ 28 October 2010
Three of South Africa’s most leftfield musos are on a short tour of Gauteng together.
Government has denied that politically-connected Imperial Crown Trading has been awarded coal prospecting rights for 162 spots next to the Vaal River.
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/ 28 October 2010
Hundreds of tax inspectors have raided scores of offices across India, probing allegations of corruption linked to the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
Government has extended guarantees to Eskom by R174-billion, to a total of R350-billion, to help finance its electricity generation programme.
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/ 28 October 2010
Odwa Ndungane’s return to the wing in place of the injured JP Pietersen is the only change to the Sharks’ starting line-up for the Currie Cup final.
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/ 28 October 2010
Somalia’s al-Shabaab group publicly executed two teenage girls in the central town of Beledweyne on charges of spying, witnesses said on Thursday.
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/ 28 October 2010
Investigators on Thursday sifted through burned-out remains of the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court’s third floor to determine what had caused a fire.
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/ 28 October 2010
Zimbabwe on Thursday denied claims that the government was planning mass evictions from a settlement outside the capital, Harare.
The recent <i>M&G</i> transformation in focus breakfast debate brought Deputy Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula and Chief Sango Holomisa together to engage on the topic of corruption. In Part 1 they offer their opening statements in response to the central question, "is corruption counter-revolutionary?"
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/ 28 October 2010
The department of water affairs will tell Cabinet in mid-December how it plans to resolve the acid mine drainage threat and how much this will cost.
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/ 28 October 2010
South Africa’s producer inflation slowed to 6,8% year-on-year in September from 7,8% in August, official data showed on Thursday.
Public Service Minister Richard Baloyi on Thursday called for South Africa to adopt a culture of anti-corruption.
Côte d’Ivoire ‘s five million voters prepare to go to the polls on Sunday, seven years after the country was devastated by a vicious civil war.
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/ 28 October 2010
Japan’s Nissan Motor company said on Thursday it was recalling more than 2,1-million cars globally due to a faulty engine-control system.
Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi has denied suggestions that a civil society conference under way in Boksburg was testing waters for a new political party.
Political parties have given a cautious green light to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
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/ 27 October 2010
Firefighters were battling a fire at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 27 October 2010
Former Argentina president Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and one of the country’s most powerful politicians, died on Wednesday.
The preliminary work ahead of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi’s appeal appears to be on track.
The SA Jewish Board of Deputies on Wednesday rejected a call by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the Cape Town Opera to cancel a planned trip to Israel.
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/ 27 October 2010
Government would be "relentless" in implementing National Health Insurance (NHI), but the scheme may not necessarily mean higher taxes.
Drastic exchange-control reforms and tougher controls over the financial sector are some of the highlights of the medium-term budget.
SA has few options to devalue its currency in the face of capital inflows and the race to do that by other countries could jeopardise global growth.
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/ 27 October 2010
Exchange control reforms and the possibility of tougher controls over the financial sector are some highlights from the medium-term budget statement.
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/ 27 October 2010
Kenya is trying to move a meeting on Sudan’s political future to Ethiopia, but not because it’s under pressure to arrest the Sudan president.
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/ 27 October 2010
South Africa’s consumer inflation slowed beyond market expectations to a five-year low in September.
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/ 27 October 2010
The toilets-without-walls saga in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, continued on Wednesday with the release of a report by the City of Cape Town.
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/ 27 October 2010
South Africa’s targeted consumer inflation slowed more than expected to 3,2% year-on-year in September from 3,5% in August.
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/ 27 October 2010
Aussie quick Mitchell Johnson has insisted the mental problems that plagued him during last year’s Ashes will not come back to haunt him.
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/ 27 October 2010
The Right2Know campaign rounds off a week of action against the Protection of Information Bill with marches in Durban and Cape Town.