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Fired Sunday Times deputy editor of politics to approach the CCMA
Sunday Times editor Bongani Siqoko said on Wednesday that Joubert’s employment was terminated on January 19.
Motsoaledi refutes claims SA faces drug shortages
The health minister says the media portrays the department as failing to provide drugs for patients, but supply is also subject to business decisions.
Mbeki tirade puts Heath in Zuma’s firing line
Judge Willem Heath’s allegations about Thabo Mbeki may yet cost President Zuma’s latest appointee his newly reacquired job as the head of the SIU.
Obama expects to clinch nomination next week
Senator Barack Obama said on Wednesday he expected to become the Democratic United States presidential nominee after next week and he is considering an overseas trip that may…
‘These people get killed for nothing’
The headlines of the papers at the newsstand at the Bree Street taxi rank on Monday reflect the deadly xenophobic violence that spread around Johannesburg on the weekend.…
MTN, Bharti merger talks could wind up soon
Merger talks between India’s biggest cellphone services firm, Bharti Airtel, and South Africa’s flagship MTN Group could wind up this weekend, a report said on Saturday. A merged…
Series of six bomb blasts kills dozens in centre of Jaipur
Dozens of people were killed and more than 100 injured when six bombs ripped through the centre of Jaipur, one of India’s most popular tourist destinations. The explosions, which…
Brown seeks to quell revolt after elections
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is looking to make popular concessions in a bid to win back support for his beleaguered Labour government after its drubbing in last week’s local…
The missing finger that never was
Traditionally on May Day the fool plays at pratfalls and buffoonery around local morris dancers, brandishing his fool’s bauble, an inflated pig’s bladder on a stick, with which…
Biggest Banksy exhibition in London tunnel
What has been billed as the biggest exhibition by British graffiti artist Banksy will open to the public on Saturday in a railway tunnel near Waterloo train station in central…
US mulls thousands more troops for Afghan war
The Pentagon is considering sending up to 7 000 more United States troops to Afghanistan next year to make up for a shortfall in contributions from Nato allies, the New York…
Kempton Park CBD without power until Sunday
Areas in and around the Kempton Park CBD will be without power until Sunday, the Ekurhuleni municipality said on Thursday, following a fire at a substation in Spartan on Monday.…
Media bodies rap Zim over crackdown
Media bodies in Zimbabwe on Wednesday deplored a government crackdown on journalists and warned the safety of reporters was under threat in the aftermath of disputed elections.…
Man arrested for robbing sperm bank
Police in India have arrested a man for stealing more than 100 sperm samples from a laboratory in the western state of Maharashtra, a news report said on Tuesday. Police told the…
ANCYL head slams ‘despicable behaviour’
Newly elected African National Congress Youth League (ANC) head Julius Malema used his first letter as president to chastise those who showed ”unbecoming conduct” at the league’s…