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Africa’s largest food retailer has reported a healthy rise in first-half profits, which they have partly attributed to higher prices and better wages.
Ricky Ponting has vowed to fight on in Australia’s Test team after selectors informed him of his exclusion from the limited-overs team.
Yemen has gone to the polls with the sole candidate to succeed ousted President Saleh looking for a strong mandate from voters to rebuild the country.
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/ 21 February 2012
Striking Impala Platinum mine workers say they "cannot survive" on the salaries they are paid, demanding "R9 000 and nothing else" from the company.
Cricket SA says Richard Levi will return home from New Zealand as planned, despite hitting a record century in just his second international match.
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/ 21 February 2012
In a country where women’s rights — including what they wear — are severely curtailed many have come up with a new way of channelling their rage
Remarking that he has come back to life more often than Jesus, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe says he’s "fit as a fiddle" as he turns 88.
A team of UN inspectors has arrived in Tehran for talks on Iran’s nuclear programme that could either defuse or escalate a looming crisis in the Gulf.
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/ 20 February 2012
Representatives of Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg mine have asked the police to as a mediator in their labour dispute.
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/ 20 February 2012
BMW will invest R2.2-bn in the economy with a new vehicle series — indicating a "vote of confidence" from the private sector, says Ebrahim Patel.
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/ 20 February 2012
John Glenn has marked the 50th anniversary of the flight that made him the first American astronaut, while criticising the current space programme.
President Robert Mugabe celebrates his 88th birthday. The M&G ask Zimbabweans in Johannesburg, if he’s been a good ruler for the past 24 years.
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has begun working on the first edition of the <i>Sun</i> since the closure of its sister title <i>News of the World</i>.
Johan Botha says the Proteas still need to improve in the field despite Sunday’s emphatic win over New Zealand in their second T20 match.
Concerns about state censorship ahead of elections have been raised in Iran as the country faced a second disruption in internet connectivity.
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/ 20 February 2012
The actor and director has a long history of speaking out passionately when he perceives injustice.
King Goodwill Zwelithini has slammed the protests carried out by Democratic Republic of Congo expatriates at Parliament, calling them unacceptable.
Like other forms of mental illness, paedophilia can be contained and managed with therapy.
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/ 20 February 2012
Committee chairperson clears issue of filling vacancies in the Gender commission.
The British Boxing Board of Control says heavyweight Dereck Chisora’s press conference brawl with David Haye could see him banned from the sport.
An orphaned rhino calf has undergoes successful surgery to remove cataracts after it was hit on the head by poachers.
Robert Mugabe has threatened to reject President Jacob Zuma as a power-sharing facilitator for the tense power-sharing government in Zimbabwe.
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/ 20 February 2012
A woman suffering from elephantiasis, a skin and tissue disease caused by parasitic worms, has been refused treatment at an Eastern Cape hospital.
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/ 20 February 2012
A Zimbabwe magistrate has ordered a teenager to be caned for posting a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute
Japan’s Emperor Akihito has been moved out of intensive care just two days after undergoing a successful heart bypass operation in Tokyo.
The latest Traditional Courts Bill could place rural people under the legal jurisdiction of the rulers of their former homelands.
Lionel Messi’s audacious chip to score for the fourth time in Barcelona’s thrashing of Valencia epitomised the three-time Ballon d’Or winner’s skill.
Civil servants are paying more for their chronic medication dispensing fees than the maximum amount mandated by the health minister.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has called on young people to rise up and fight for the "unbanning" of the youth league.
Spaniards turned out en masse at demonstrations across their country on Sunday, protesting against reforms to the labour market.
In fresh violence just before elections in Senegal, riot police have fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing demonstrators.
The Young Communist League has called for deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder to resign after comments he made about land reform redistribution.