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It is renowned for surfing, rugby and the great outdoors, but South Africa is among the fattest countries in the world, a survey has found.
The floods in Pakistan have forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. MSF has already set up three mobile clinics in the Sukkur area.
A video from Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF) highlighting the struggle they are having in Pakistan to keep waterborne diseases such as cholera at bay.
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Agri SA on Friday welcomed an announcement by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa that crime-fighting units would be reinstated in rural areas.
SA has made a lot of progress on the UN’s Millennium Development Goals and there’s no need for pessimism, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
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/ 10 September 2010
A court interdict was on Friday being sought to stop a local man from burning bibles at the Library Gardens in Johannesburg.
To equip children for the workplace in the 21st century, conventional teaching must give way to the use of technology.
President Jacob Zuma must seize the moment and get a grip on the country’s "economic tiller", DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
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An entire Philippine island lost electrical power on Friday after a snake reportedly climbed on to a power transmission line, causing it to short out.
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/ 10 September 2010
The Drama for Life Festival, a unique HIV and AIDS arts education, activist and therapeutic intervention, arrives in Cape Town from Jo’burg.
The Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign is on its way to fulfilling its goal of changing the lives of 4,7-million disadvantaged South Africans by 2015.
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/ 10 September 2010
Ugandan police said on Thursday they had tightened security after Somalia’s extremist rebels, al-Shabaab, threatened further violence.
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/ 10 September 2010
E.tv and MultiChoice have been awarded licences to provide mobile TV, the Independent Communications Authority of South African said on Friday.
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/ 10 September 2010
A gas pipeline explosion ripped through a neighbourhood in a San Francisco suburb on Thursday, starting fires that burned more than 50 buildings.
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/ 10 September 2010
US President Barack Obama marked the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday by reflecting on religious tolerance.
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/ 10 September 2010
A book by America’s most famous bird artist, John James Audubon, billed as the most expensive in the world, is going under the hammer in December.
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b>Peter Bradshaw </b>reviews <i>The Last Airbender</i>.
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/ 9 September 2010
Criminal charges were filed on Thursday against Sweden’s Saab AB for bribery after the emergence of new facts relating to the sale of aircraft to SA.
Editor-in-chief of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> Nic Dawes delivers his keynote address on the current media landscape and the threat to our media freedom, which marked the opening of the 2010 M&G Literary Festival.
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The Reserve Bank cut its repo rate by 50 basis points to 6% as expected on Thursday to give further boost to a stuttering economic recovery.
United States President Barack Obama joined leaders of the world’s biggest Muslim nations in a chorus of outrage at a plan to burn the Qur’an.
Swaziland’s prime minister said his government will consider punishing political dissidents by beating their feet with spikes, state media said.
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/ 9 September 2010
Fidel Castro has accused Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of anti-Semitism in a passionate defence of Israel’s right to exist.
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/ 9 September 2010
A Chinese woman is suing a cinema for wasting her time by showing 20 minutes of commercials before the movie, state media said this week.
Many mothers-to-be do not know that drinking excessive amounts of alcohol while they are pregnant is dangerous to their unborn baby.
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Violent crime declined last year in South Africa, the police minister said on Thursday, with murders down 8,6% to under 17 000.
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Workers at Zimbabwe’s state-owned airline have gone on strike over pay, causing flight cancellations and leaving scores of passengers stranded.
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South African insurer Sanlam reported flat first-half earnings on Thursday.
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Thirteen taxi commuters died and two others were seriously injured in an accident on the R716 road near Heilbron in the Free State on Wednesday.
The notion of ZEE, as opposed to BEE, had President Jacob Zuma flummoxed in the National Assembly on Wednesday.
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The UN urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as it sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked UN report.
The proposed media tribunal is intended to "strengthen, complement and support the current self-regulatory institutions", President Jacob Zuma says.