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/ 31 October 2009
Zimbabwe’s feuding leaders have come under fresh regional pressure to break a two-week impasse that threatens to sink the unity government.
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/ 31 October 2009
The internet is on the verge of its biggest shake up in 40 years, and the most significant one since it crossed from academia to commerce in 1993.
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/ 30 October 2009
Once again it strikes me how the headlines on the big black economic empowerment deals mislead.
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/ 30 October 2009
A global regulatory body on Friday approved a new multilingual address system, which it said would open up the internet to millions more people.
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/ 30 October 2009
South Africans who opposed apartheid conscription are to reunite for some protest music while sharing their stories with the born-free generation.
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/ 30 October 2009
For 20 years the <i>Mail & Guardian’s</i> annual Investing in the Future Awards have celebrated the contributions made by corporate South Africa.
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/ 29 October 2009
Pity UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen. In trying to chart the way forward in the Reitz Four saga, his every move is being criticised.
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/ 29 October 2009
A New Zealand artist has sculpted the head of the government’s environment minister out of cow dung in a conservation protest.
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/ 29 October 2009
Game-playing fan boys have an unnatural fascination with the girl gamer.
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/ 28 October 2009
Zimbabwe has withdrawn an unprecedented invitation to a UN independent expert on torture at the last moment, the UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 October 2009
The Competition Commission on Wednesday referred its findings of abuse of dominance against Telkom to the Competition Tribunal for adjudication.
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/ 28 October 2009
A Japanese eyewear company has come up with a high-tech solution for obsessive video-gamers whose eyes dry out from lack of blinking.
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/ 28 October 2009
Facebook is to give people the option to "memorialise" the profile pages of friends and relatives who have died.
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/ 27 October 2009
A warrant of arrest has been issued for mastermind of a recent multibillion-rand Ponzi fraud scam, said Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday.
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/ 27 October 2009
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says he is aware of the political debate raging about economic policy, but will not be swayed from being "pragmatic".
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/ 27 October 2009
To the CIA she was Donna: a Cuban spy who hid documents inside cans of food and sent secret messages via a clandestine radio.
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/ 26 October 2009
Dinara Safina moved back to the top of the world rankings on Monday, and insisted she has given up worrying about her critics.
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/ 26 October 2009
The <i>Guardian</i> has emailed "up to half a million" users of its Jobs website to tell them that some of their data may have been compromised.
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/ 25 October 2009
Activists around the world on Saturday marched in an effort to mobilise public opinion against global warming ahead of a crucial UN climate summit.
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/ 24 October 2009
A 10% increase in temperature and a 10% decrease in rainfall sees Indian Ocean island struggle to feed its children.
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/ 23 October 2009
At least 59 people have died of cholera in the past two months in Tanzania, a senior Health Ministry official said on Friday.
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/ 23 October 2009
Africans are buying cellphones at a world record rate, with take-up soaring by 550% in five years, research shows.
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/ 23 October 2009
Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone manufacturer, is suing Apple in a US court, alleging the iPhone infringes 10 of its wireless patents.
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/ 23 October 2009
Dr Thavi Govender and his team of researchers are investigating the synthesis and testing of inhibitors targeting HIV/Aids and XDR-TB.
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/ 23 October 2009
A series of photos, depicting the naked whiteness of commercial photographic studios, neatly lines a wall of the Goodman Gallery in Cape Town.
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/ 23 October 2009
Despite attempts to evict victims of last year’s xenophobic violence from a Cape Town safety camp, their future remains uncertain.
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/ 22 October 2009
As the dust settles following the departure of Bafana coach Joel Santana, there is a sense of wonder as to how we find ourselves in this position.
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/ 22 October 2009
A group of rich Germans have launched a petition to call for a wealth tax to help the country bounce back from an economic crisis.
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/ 22 October 2009
The candidate who placed third in Afghanistan’s election said on Thursday he was considering urging his supporters to boycott the upcoming run-off.
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/ 22 October 2009
Richard Goldstone challenged the US on Thursday to justify its charge that findings of a report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes were flawed.
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/ 22 October 2009
Windows 7 has become the biggest-grossing pre-order in Amazon’s history — worth even more than the most recent Harry Potter book.
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/ 21 October 2009
About 100 000 women joined a protest against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, accusing him of "offending" women.