South African President Jacob Zuma faces a fight for his political future next week at a major ANC policy-setting session.
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/ 16 September 2010
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Thursday after years of battling injury.
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/ 16 September 2010
Motorists in southern Taiwan are being urged to give land crabs right of way during the animals’ spawning season, wildlife authorities said.
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/ 16 September 2010
News Corp’s UK newspaper arm is to put its mass-selling <i>News of the World</i> tabloid behind an online paywall.
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/ 16 September 2010
British police will investigate allegations that former world boxing champion Ricky Hatton snorted cocaine in a hotel toilet, they said on Thursday.
While Zimbabwe is making "tangible" progress, the "madness" still persisted, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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/ 16 September 2010
Five doctors have been charged with performing illegal kidney transplants, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 16 September 2010
Umpire Tony Hill suspected Pakistan players had deliberately bowled no-balls, but did not link the tactic to corruption, a report said on Thursday.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on Wednesday tried to attract UK businesses to invest in SA, particularly in the troubled mining sector.
The economic growth path outlined by Cosatu is "out of touch" and an "impractical wish list of discredited ideas", the DA says on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2010
A Zimbabwe government minister on Wednesday sought to assure foreign firms, saying a new equity law did not entail "xenophobic dispossession".
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/ 15 September 2010
The National Union of Mineworkers said on Wednesday that Northam Platinum had marginally raised its pay offer to end a strike.
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/ 15 September 2010
Information on hundreds of dysfunctional sewage treatment plants would not be made public, the government said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2010
House price growth in SAcontinued to moderate in August from its recent strong levels, according to results released by bond originator ooba.
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/ 15 September 2010
AngloGold Ashanti said on Wednesday that it had suspended operations at its Tau Tona mine following a fatality.
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/ 15 September 2010
The Protection of Information Bill currently in Parliament will set SA back in terms of freedom of information, an AU special rapporteur says.
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/ 15 September 2010
<i>The New Age</i> newspaper has postponed its launch until next month, its editor, Vuyo Mvoko, announced on its website.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said Israeli and Palestinian leaders were "serious" about reaching a peace deal.
Nine years of fightig njihadists has weakened Western forces, al-Qaeda’s number two said in an audio clip after the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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/ 15 September 2010
Current trade conditions dipped in August, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2010
Up to 500 000 women worldwide die while pregnant or in childbirth — and half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Those responsible for contaminating South African land will pay, Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Wednesday.
Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt hopes to lower his 100m world record from 9,58 to 9,4 seconds, a report said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2010
The SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) and Parliament agreed on Tuesday to have hearings on the SABC heard publicly.
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/ 15 September 2010
The US said on Tuesday it was stepping up efforts for a peaceful transition in Sudan ahead of a referendum.
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/ 15 September 2010
The DA’s theory of an ulterior motive in the appointment of Menzi Simelane as prosecutions boss is "simply nonsense", a court heard on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2010
Pretoria commuters will be without transport on Wednesday as taxi associations march in the city against the implementation of the demerit system.
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/ 15 September 2010
Poor sanitation, water shortages, climate change and environmental destruction — Afghanistan grimly illustrates the fate of many nations.
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/ 15 September 2010
Twitter’s self-imposed — and endlessly fascinating — 140-character limit on "tweets" is being tweaked to include pictures and video.
The ANC blasts the<i> M&G</i> for making ‘spurious, unsubstantiated, despicable claims’, to which the paper responds that the party is paranoid.
The debate over nationalisation started "wrongly and in the wrong place", said Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday.
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/ 14 September 2010
Nomusa Mdlalose has become the face of storytelling in South Africa.