Watch – Student's drowning to be investigated – Nzimade

Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimade talks about the investigation into the drowning of a first-year student from North West University.

Watch – Michelle Obama wins push-up challenge over TV’s Ellen

Michelle Obama has been busy promoting her healthy eating and fitness program for two years. But how fit is she herself?

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

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
TAKE THAT: A protester throws paint at the filling station of a large oil company on Friday (February 3 2012) in Manila, Philippines to protest the most recent price increase of gasoline and other oil products, the 12th such rise this year. The protesters assailed the government's alleged helplessness in controlling pump prices of oil and demanded the repeal of the Oil Deregulation Law. Picture: Bullit Marquez/AP
HE SHOOTS ...: Murray State's Isaiah Canaan, front, goes for a layup over Southeast Missouri State's Marland Smith during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Thursday (February 2 2012) in Murray, Kentucky. Canaan scored 32 points as Murray State remained undefeated with an 81-73 victory over Southeast Missouri State. Picture: Stephen Lance Dennee/AP
MYSTERIOUS JOURNEY: Cast member Vanessa Hudgens arrives at the premiere of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island in Los Angeles on Thursday (February 2, 2011). Journey 2: The Mysterious Island will be released on March 16. Picture: Matt Sayles/AP
WHISTLER: Kaillie Humphries pilots her and Emily Baadsvik, of Canada, to a first place finish during their second run of the women's bobsled during the FIBT Bobsled and Skeleton World Cup at the Whistler Sliding Center in Whistler, British Columbia on Thursday (February 2 2012). Picture: The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward/AP
CAMPAIGN TRAIL: Audience members look out a window while waiting for Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada on Thursday (February 2, 2012). Picture: Brian Snyder/Reuters

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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.

Politics

Dalai Lama: IFP considers appeal

2012-02-03 14:27

It would consider appealing the judgment in the Dalai Lama case, the IFP has said.

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.

Entertainment

Girls ‘to hunt’ Prince Harry in TV show

2012-02-03 16:40

A new reality TV show will follow five “Prince Harry Hunters” as they try to win the heart of the 27-year-old royal.

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.

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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.

Education before Mangaung politics

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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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