Water shortages for SA by 2025

2012-02-22 04:27

South Africa will start running out of water 13 years from now without better management, according to Treasury’s 2012 Budget Review, tabled today.

FS MEC gets the boot

2012-02-22 16:53

Free State Premier Ace Magashule has fired his MEC for economic development, tourism and economic affairs, Mxolisi Dukwana.

Tolls relief for Gauteng motorists

2012-02-22 14:13

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had some good news for Gauteng drivers today – and some bad news, depending on how you look at it.

‘Joburg ignored offers to settle billing crisis’

2012-02-22 17:16

National Consumer Commission (NCC) head Mamodupi Mohlala says the City of Johannesburg ignored arbitration and dispute resolution offers to help settle the municipality’s billing crisis.

SA women reach Olympic qualifying final

2012-02-22 16:32

South Africa are one step away from booking their place at the London Olympic Games after securing a 5-2 thumping of India in the women’s hockey qualifying tournament in New Delhi, India.

 

YEAH!  Robin Peterson of South Africa celebrates the big wicket of batsman Brendon McCullum of the New Zealand’s Black Caps during their third and final International Twenty20 match at Eden Park on Wednesday (February 22 2012). South Africa won the Twenty20 three-match series 2-1 in Auckland, New Zealand. Picture: Sandra Mu/Getty Images

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Heaps of extra chilli and garlic with the grilled squid heads seemed so fine and macho, especially after my friend remarked, with tears in his eyes, that the stuff was rather strong.

 

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UJ launches stampede probe

2012-02-22 14:36

An independent probe into the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman during late registration at the University of Johannesburg has been set up.

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Politics

Direko surrendered life to SA: Motshekga

2012-02-22 13:15

Former Free State premier Winkie Direko surrendered her life to the service of the country, ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga said today.

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Sport

Proteas beat Black Caps to claim series

2012-02-22 13:06

Marchant de Lange took two wickets in a final over that conceded only three runs as South Africa blunted New Zealand’s run chase to win the third Twenty20 international by three runs and take the series 2-1.

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Entertainment

Whitney’s grave closed to public

2012-02-22 11:09

The cemetery where singer Whitney Houston was laid to rest has been closed to the public indefinitely.

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Cartels: just a special kind of corruption

2012-02-19 09:54

Corruption is a cancer that eats at the country’s ability to progress because resources are diverted by the greedy and crooked.

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Special focus

Opinion – Judging the judiciary: Jeremy Cronin

Over the past several months, clumsy statements by individual comrades in our movement – advancing strictly personal opinions, which may or may not have been misrepresented – opened the way for an unhelpful and wrongly framed debate.

Opinion – Judging the judiciary: Izak Smuts

President Jacob Zuma’s recent ­suggestion that the powers of the Constitutional Court should be reviewed is the latest in a series of threats to our courts and our Constitution.

Opinion – A man is not a financial solution

Having spent a weekend speaking to more than 2 000 young women about their finances, the most tweeted comment was “a man is not a financial plan”, says Maya Fisher-French.

Opinion – The painful truth about our exams

Don’t ask a South African ­matriculant to do a sum, balance an account, give directions or name a plant – but they are pretty good at giving you some lip, writes Andrew Trench.

 

MP ‘raped me’

The young woman who has accused a top ANC MP of raping her has broken her ­silence about her alleged ordeal.

Group puts pressure on MTN, Sasol to exit Iran

Corporate heavyweights MTN and Sasol this week faced immense global pressure to quit troubled Iran as war talk and brinkmanship reached fever pitch.

Zuma smackdown for Mazibuko

It was an apparently innocent and playful gesture on the part of President Jacob Zuma to show DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko who’s boss.

‘I can’t go back in the water’

Port St John’s lifeguard Nqobile Jojo grew up loving the ocean and turned his ability as a swimmer into a way to earn his living. But, after watching 25-year-old Ngidi Msungubana die in the jaws of a shark – the sixth fatal attack at the town’s Second Beach since 2007 – Jojo says he won’t go back into the water.

 
 
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