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/ 26 January 2010
The South African Reserve Bank left its repo rate steady at 7% on Tuesday, as expected.
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/ 26 January 2010
Payouts to "failed" departing chief executives of parastatals have cost the SA public at least R262,1-million over the last decade, the DA says.
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/ 26 January 2010
British authorities on Tuesday outlined plans to prevent more than 3 000 fans with a record of hooliganism from travelling to the World Cup.
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/ 26 January 2010
Forensic investigators employed by KZN’s social development department have recommended that 163 project managers be charged with fraud.
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/ 26 January 2010
There were 1 582 road-accident deaths over the festive season, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2010
Nigerian police said on Tuesday at least 326 people died in Muslim-Christian clashes last week in the central Plateau State.
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/ 26 January 2010
Somalia’s hard-line insurgent group, al-Shabaab, on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a mortar attack on an AU peacekeepers’ base in Mogadishu.
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/ 26 January 2010
Cosatu said on Tuesday that the amount Jacob Maroga is claiming from Eskom over his dismissal — R85-million — is excessive.
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/ 26 January 2010
Responding to union calls for its nationalisation, the SA Reserve Bank pointed out that its independence was entrenched in the Constitution.
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/ 26 January 2010
Telecommunications company Neotel on Tuesday said it will be ready for individual number porting in April.
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/ 26 January 2010
Microsoft founder Bill Gates plays down Beijing’s attempts to stifle dissent on the internet as "very limited".
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/ 26 January 2010
Harmony Gold expects output to fall in the second quarter, compared with the first, but is bullish about the gold-price performance, it says.
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/ 26 January 2010
Two of the former "Reitz Four", who could have continued with their studies at the University of the Free State this year, have not registered.
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/ 26 January 2010
Benni McCarthy could be on his way from Blackburn to West Ham after his club confirmed on Monday they’d received a written offer for the striker.
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/ 26 January 2010
Longing for a lie-down, long-haul? Air New Zealand will offer flat beds to economy class passengers on some flights later this year.
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/ 26 January 2010
Three separate attacks on targets used by Westerners in centre of capital as Iraq prepares for general election.
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/ 26 January 2010
A parent’s complaint over a "sexually graphic" definition has seen dictionaries removed from southern Californian schools.
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/ 26 January 2010
South African cricket coach Mickey Arthur has resigned, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2010
Egypt set up what is certain to be a highly-charged semifinal against Algeria at the Africa Cup of Nations when Ahmed Hassan turned villian to hero.
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/ 26 January 2010
Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realised their mistake.
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/ 26 January 2010
The Congress of the People has rebutted statements made by the party’s youth movement regarding the dissolution of its congress national committee.
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/ 26 January 2010
Awarding-winning South African sculptor Jackson Hlongwane has died at the age of 99, SABC Radio News reported on Monday.
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/ 25 January 2010
After 235 arrests during an anti-crime operation on the weekend, Johannesburg police are confident they can tackle crime during the 2010 World Cup.
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/ 25 January 2010
Metrorail workers embarked on a strike on Monday, following the summary dismissal of eight train drivers, Satawu said.
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/ 25 January 2010
Saddam Hussein’s notorious henchman, "Chemical Ali", was executed on Monday, an Iraqi government spokesperson said.
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/ 25 January 2010
Trade union Solidarity made an urgent appeal to Eskom to provide it with a detailed account of all the foreign employees appointed there.
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/ 25 January 2010
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has been in Saudi Arabia for two months receiving treatment for a heart condition.
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/ 25 January 2010
A Sudanese man hurled his shoe at President Omar al-Bashir on Monday but missed him, witnesses said.
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/ 25 January 2010
Cope co-leader Mbhazima Shilowa on Monday said the party needed to work "very hard" to establish branches and develop policies.
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/ 25 January 2010
Sun International and the SA Catering and Commercial Allied Workers’ Union have settled their wage dispute.
Puma has stuck to its well-worn script of revealing, slick uniforms — fabric pasted to the skin, in effect for this year’s Afcon.
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/ 25 January 2010
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