Police in the southern US state of Louisiana have arrested a woman who allegedly traded two young children for an exotic bird and a bit of cash.
The JSE inched off its earlier low levels but remained in the red by noon on Monday with banking counters still leading the decliners.
South Africa’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 21,9% in the quarter ended December 2008 from 23,2% in the third quarter, data showed on Monday.
Old Mutual has declined to comment on a weekend report that it is planning to offload its 53% holding in South Africa’s Nedbank.
The summer holidays have come and gone. With luck you got a chance to catch your breath and recharge your batteries – and set goals for 2009.
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/ 27 February 2009
The retail price of all grades of petrol will rise by 45 cents a litre on Wednesday next week, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Friday.
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/ 27 February 2009
The Obamas have revealed that they plan to adopt a Portuguese water dog. They’re in for an exciting ride, says long-time owner Sabine Durrant.
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/ 27 February 2009
The African National Congress Youth League’s new spokesperson, Magdalene Moonsamy, appears to be everything her leader is not.
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/ 27 February 2009
The South African economy needs a bail-out in the form of cheaper money — for all of us.
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/ 26 February 2009
Banking stocks led the upside as the JSE moved 263 points into the black by noon on Thursday in line with stronger European markets.
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/ 26 February 2009
SA Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Thursday an emergency Monetary Policy Committee meeting had not been called following poor growth data.
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/ 26 February 2009
Dozens of investigators worked overnight probing the wreckage of the Turkish Airways jet that crashed at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
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/ 26 February 2009
South African shipping company Grindrod on Thursday reported a 96% increase in diluted headline earnings per share.
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/ 26 February 2009
Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and often execute criminal suspects and other individuals with impunity, a UN expert said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 February 2009
The international visibility of SA research is poised for a boost, thanks to the establishment of an open-access platform for high-quality journals.
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/ 25 February 2009
The Competition Tribunal on Wednesday unconditionally approved the merger between cellphone companies Vodacom and Vodafone.
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/ 25 February 2009
Legislators from Barack Obama’s Democratic Party as well as several Republicans responded positively to the new president’s first address to Congress.
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/ 25 February 2009
This is a time of unprecedented opportunity for CSI, provided emerging leaders embrace the development agenda.
This year’s Drivers of Change Awards reward those who transform communities for the better
An opportunity for stakeholders to get together to find common ground.
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/ 25 February 2009
Binyam Mohamed spent his first full day back in the UK on Tuesday after four years in Guantánamo Bay. His lawyers said he went on a two-hour walk.
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/ 25 February 2009
Where poverty persists it is not only social development that is at risk, but the democratic process itself.
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/ 25 February 2009
Israeli warplanes launched two air strikes along the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt on Wednesday, witnesses said.
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/ 25 February 2009
UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw was targeted by internet fraudsters who sent emails to his contacts claiming he was in need of emergency money.
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/ 25 February 2009
Rwanda’s Hutu rebels in the DRC have been seriously weakened but not eliminated by a month-long joint military operation, Rwanda said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 February 2009
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to free about 30 jailed activists to help "heal the nation".
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/ 25 February 2009
Internet giant has said it wants to join European investigation into accusations of anti-competitive behaviour by rival.
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/ 24 February 2009
Pan African Resources has confirmed that the bodies of five men have been found in an underground section of the Consort gold mine in Barberton.
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/ 24 February 2009
Solidarity on Tuesday hit back at Lonmin which earlier said it had reached "an agreement" with trade unions to retrench 4 000 employees.
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/ 24 February 2009
Japanese who watched their former finance minister nod off at a Group of Seven press conference can now try to keep him awake in a new cellphone game.
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/ 24 February 2009
At the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s critical thinking forum in Cape Town two weeks ago, the president’s state of the nation address scored mixed reviews.