Malema to hear his fate today

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ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will hear his fate today.

ATM attackers exploit poor policing

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Disarray in the crime intelligence unit and a lack of experienced detectives could be the reason for an increase in automated teller machine (ATM) attacks in the past year.

Bus drivers nabbed for 366 bundles of khat

2012-02-03 16:26

Two long-distance bus drivers were arrested in Beaufort West after being found in possession of the drug plant khat, with a street value of R36 600.

SA, Cuba sign R350m aid agreement

2012-02-03 16:40

South Africa today formalised a R350 million economic aid agreement with Cuba.

Beyoncé offered $500m for X Factor

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Simon Cowell has reportedly offered Beyoncé Knowles $500 million (R3.8 billion) to be a judge on US X Factor.

 

MILITARY STINT:   Demonstrators burn a British flag outside the British embassy in Buenos Aires on Thursday (February 2 2012). Activists protested against the arrival of Britain's Prince William to the Falkland Islands, also known as Las Malvinas in Spanish, for a planned military stint. Britain has controlled the islands, about 480 km off the southern Argentine coast, since 1833. In 1982, Britain sent a naval force and thousands of troops to reclaim the islands after Argentine forces sent by the country's then-m

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Lindor balls are seriously counter-revolutionary when it comes to Comrades training.

 

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NPA denies Mdluli, Breytenbach link

2012-02-03 16:41

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has denied a link between the possible suspension of prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach and the dropping of charges against suspended crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli.

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Sport

More Zim players banned

2012-02-03 14:55

The number of Zimbabwean players banned from their national team is increasing by the day as it has now risen from the initial 80 reported earlier this week.

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Business

Banks move into Mzansi market

2012-02-03 10:39

SA’s biggest retail bank, Absa Group, has launched Transact, a simplified affordable banking account likely to replace the government-initiated Mzansi account.

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Reward the real supermen

2012-01-29 10:00

I read in your paper with mixed emotions, if not disturbed conscience and conviction, about how much university bosses earn.

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1 in 6 matrics got less than 10% for maths

One in six pupils who wrote last year’s matric maths paper got less than 10% and more than half got less than 30% for physical science, official figures obtained by City Press show.

Did this man bankrupt Limpopo?

A Limpopo tycoon is at the centre of a growing row in the bankrupt province over a health information system contract which cost taxpayers a quarter of a billion rand and has never worked.

The mayors and their mini-armies

In what could easily be seen as a show of power, mayors of major towns and cities across the country are being escorted by mini-armies.

Potch student ‘couldn’t swim’

The first-year student who drowned at North West University’s Potchefstroom campus did not know how to swim and was only warned that he did not have to take part in the activity in Afrikaans – a language he did not understand “very well”.

 

Staff dig deep to feed starving patients

Disgruntled food suppliers in Limpopo have left hospital kitchens high and dry.

Opinion – This tjatjarag nation will reveal its mettle

This week I debated the leader of the opposition in Parliament, Lindiwe Mazibuko, on whether young professionals have a bright future in South Africa. Duh! Of course they do, writes Ferial Haffajee.

Opinion – The Year of the Dragon will fire up...

This year we will throw caution to the wind and roll up our sleeves for all sorts of grandiose, exhilarating, colossal, overambitious and daring projects, says Dion Chang.

Opinion – Power to the people

An anti-corruption initiative aims to promote political accountability and bring back the voice of citizens, writes Vuyiseka Dubula.

 
 
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As Bhisho was burning this week, politicians were playing the fiddle, hoping that the Eastern Cape education ­crisis would disappear so they could resume doing more important things.

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