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Black advocate challenges exclusion
Johannesburg - A junior advocate has urged black businesses and lawyers not to shy away from suing for anti-competitive practices when they are excluded because of their ...
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South Africa Jansen to Be Honoured in New York
South Africa's Professor Jonathan Jansen will receive the Education Africa Lifetime Achievement Award for Africa at a gala ceremony in New York on 3 June, it was announced at the weekend. Jansen, the vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State, played a key role in turning the university "away from its apartheid legacy into an institution that is truly ...
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Africa DRC-South Africa Pact Paves Way for Mega Hydro-Electric Plant
With South Africa confirmed as a key partner, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced October 2015 as the launch date for construction of the first phase of what could eventually be the largest hydroelectric plant in the world. The Grand Inga project on the Congo River is expected, once all the phases are complete, to generate a massive 40 000 MW of electricity, bringing renewable ...
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Obama plans tour to South Africa
Washington - President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary released on Monday bypasses Kenya, an ancestral ...
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South Africa Multi-Currency Card First for Country
South African bank Absa has launched a multi-currency travel prepaid cash card through MasterCard, which is available in four currencies and is a first for the country and the continent. The bank will also be launching an Islamic Banking multi-currency passport soon, which is a first Sharia'h compliant and unique solution for clients travelling overseas. "Although there are other ...
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South Africa Canadian Governor General to Visit
South Africa's relations with Canada will come under the spotlight on Tuesday when President Jacob Zuma hosts the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, for a state visit. This will be Johnston's first visit to South Africa, which forms part of his tour of Africa, including stops in Ghana and Botswana. South Africa is Canada's second-largest trading partner in sub-Saharan ...
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Two daughters of Nelson Mandela seek rights to his artwork and companies
Former South African president, Nelson Mandela's daughter Makaziwe Mandela, (left) with her daughter Tukwini pose with a bottle of House of Mandela wine at their home in Johannesburg. Photograph: Getty ...
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Video of baboon burglars running riot in South African house goes viral
Footage of a gang of baboons filmed clambering through an open upstairs window of a Cape Town residence and helping themselves to food while running amok has become a viral ...
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Barack Obama to make first trip to SA
Washington - US President Barack Obama will be heading to South Africa as part of his first major African tour since taking office, the White House said on Monday.Obama will also be travelling to to Senegal and Tanzania to reinforce US ties with countries in sub-Saharan Africa.The president will be accompanied by his wife Michelle during the tour which takes place from 26 June to 3 ...
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Land claims Govt forks out nearly R1bn
Johannesburg - Almost R1bn in financial compensation was paid to land claimants in the last financial year, the department of land reform said on Monday. The department paid more than R993m to people who lodged land claims between 1994 and 31 December 1998, spokesperson Mtobeli Mxotwa said in a statement. There were 602 restitution claims settled during the financial year, starting 1 April last ...
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ConCourt to hear disputed arrest case
Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court will hear argument on Tuesday on the arrest of a motorist who did not stop at a roadblock because he feared the officers were impostors. The issue before the court is whether the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) was correct in overturning a judgment of the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, which found the motorist, Jack Coetzee, was arrested and detained ...
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Sars auditor was disgruntled court hears
Durban - A SA Revenue Service (Sars) tax auditor was unhappy over having to reverse her tax assessment of Durban businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane, the Durban Regional Court heard on Monday. Wahida Osman told the court she felt Mpisane had been able "to influence the audit process within the audit organisation". She was being cross-examined by Rafik Bhana, SC, for Mpisane. The court ...
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Public service eyes childcare options
Lindiwe Sisulu said on Monday. "We have decided that the state is responsible for your child," said Sisulu to a woman who complained that she had been asked about her childcare arrangements during a job interview. The woman had lamented that men were usually not asked this question. "We are going to, in time, ensure that the state provides the necessary childcare facilities," ...
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Initiation death toll mounts
Johannesburg - Police are investigating the deaths of 27 boys who attended initiation schools in Mpumalanga, police said on Monday. "Twenty-seven boys have died in initiation schools in the last two weeks," Colonel Leonard Hlathi said. He said 26 of these were now being investigated as murder cases and one remained an inquest. Hlathi said no arrests had been made and police expected ...
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Senior cop accounts for Marikana plan
Rustenburg - Senior police officer Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Scott has admitted to drawing up the plan to deal with striking Marikana miners last year, the Farlam Commission heard on Monday. A statement written by Scott in November was entered as evidence on Monday. In it, Scott said: "The plan or strategy that I prepared and proposed for adoptionwas the first of its kind." Major ...
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ConCourt to rule on firearms case costs
Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court will hand down judgment on Tuesday relating to the costs of an application to the Supreme Court of Appeal over the Firearms Control Act. Last November the Justice Alliance of South Africa and the False Bay Gun Club took the ministries of finance and police, the national police commissioner, and the Appeal Board of Firearms to court over compensation for ...
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Man appears for raping pensioner
Johannesburg - A man arrested for allegedly raping an 80-year-old pensioner appeared in the Mankweng Magistrate's Court on Monday, Limpopo police said. Constable Moses Molepo said 27-year-old Jan Makgoba would remain in custody until he made a formal bail application on 30 May. Makgoba allegedly attacked the pensioner while she was alone at her house last Thursday. He allegedly strangled ...
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SA officials visit woman held in India
Johannesburg - South African consular officials on Monday visited a South African woman held in Mumbai, India, for alleged drug trafficking, a government official said. International relations spokesperson Nelson Kgwete said the woman was confirmed to be a South African citizen. "Her next-of-kin has also been informed of the arrest. She did not give permission for any further information to ...
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I took blame ritual murder accused says
Johannesburg - Murder-accused Harvey Isha had to take the blame for an apparent satanic ritual in which teenager Kirsty Theologo died, a Johannesburg court heard on Monday. Isha told the South Gauteng High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court he had been fingered by Theologo's mother. "Kirsty's mom had already mentioned that 'Harvey and his friends did this ...
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Scotts statement mirrors that of cops
Rustenburg - An affidavit by Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Scott mirrors a statement presented by the SA Police Service, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Monday. "The presentation made to the commission by the police is almost identical to Scott's detailed statement," ...
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NASAs 19-Gigapixel Filmstrip of the Earth from Russia to South Africa
series of 56 images shortly thereafter. NASA stitched the pictures together into one long strip, which you can tour in the video above. As always, satellite images testify to the wonder of the biosphere. This particular set of pictures, though, is a simple meditation on the diversity of conditions on Earth, and the mark that humanity has left on the ...
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Mandela movie poster unveiled
Cannes - A teaser poster for a film adaptation of former president Nelson Mandela's autobiography has been unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Channel 24 reported on ...
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Mandelas name pulled into South African politics
Nelson Mandela smiles during a lunch to Benefit the Mandela Children's Foundation as part of the celebrations of the opening of the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 3, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Chris Jackson, Getty ...
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Cosco to Boost Asia-South Africa Trade in Mid-June
will increase rates for all shipments, including refrigerated cargo, on its trade from the Far East to South Africa, starting June 17.The hike will be $300 per 20-foot container and $600 per 40-foot and 40-foot high-cube container, according to the ...
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ANC considers fixed conference venue
Gwede Mantashe said on Monday. "It is not working for us, this thing of rotating the conference and creating conference infrastructure every five years at a huge cost," he told reporters in Johannesburg. "In the next NEC [national executive committee meeting], we must take the decision that our conference will be in place X, and we can start working now for the conference in ...
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South Africa's small but growing cruise industry
The South African cruise industry has grown considerably in recent decades, recording an expansion of over 100% in recent years. The greatest growth came between the 1990s and 2010, led predominantly by Starlight Cruises, a household name in South Africa and the owner of the market share in the South African cruise industry.
The South African cruise industry is a growing one, in comparison to more developed countries it is tiny, with just one ship (sometimes two) that grace the coasts of South Africa once a year between November and April. Read more
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