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Senior former Land Bank executives and a former Gauteng politician will be arrested this month on charges of corruption, MPs have been told.
THE National Institute for Communicable Diseases said yesterday it was concerned about the increased number of Novel influenza AH1N1 virus cases -- better known as swine flu -- and a plan to manage the virus was needed.
The seven member countries of SADC (Southern African Development Community) who share the Zambezi basin, have expressed support for the construction of a new dam on the Zambezi at Mepanda Nkua, in the western Mozambican province of Tete.
IF WORKERS in the steel industry, say, were to go on strike tomorrow, their employers would probably be delighted. A strike would be just the thing to save on wage costs and to reduce stocks: in commodity industries such as steel, where global and local demand for the product continues to languish, employers might well be able to sit out a very long strike.
A 25-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man was on Monday jailed for six months by a Mussina magistrate in the Limpopo province of South Africa for smuggling a consignment of cigarettes worth R30 000 through Beitbridge Border Post.
With South Africa's national soccer symbol the vuvuzela under siege, local manufacturers say any decision to ban the instrument during 2010 games would stifle a growing industry and lead to job losses.
Durban is gearing up to join Cape Town and Johannesburg as a host city to a FoodBank, which aims to address urban hunger by collecting donated food at a central warehouse from where it can be distributed.
AFTER a week when two Congress of the People (COPE) leaders resigned and the party's dirty linen was hung out in public, COPE leadership sought to play down the crisis in the party.
THE construction industry strike looked set to go into a third day last night, despite top-level talks brokered by Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana yesterday.
"My mother was surprised that my breasts were getting bigger, and told me to go to the clinic to take a pregnancy test. The nurses told me I was pregnant and so I cried. I cried because I thought I was too young to have a baby and I thought I wouldn't manage."
Kidney problems can affect anyone, but it mainly afflicts those who suffer from hypertension and diabetes. In some cases it is hereditary. Those diagnosed with kidney failure are required to undergo treatment until they receive a kidney transplant.
The South African government will have to bail out private companies as the global financial crisis begins to bite the national economy, writes William Gumede. But which companies should the government nationalise? Moreover, given its 'depressing record' thus far, is it actually capable of running a complex organisation without making the headlines for mismanagement and corruption? Dismissive of ...
WHEN punters first saw a horse called Goat on the race card, the majority of them must have thought it was a joke.
SA RUGBY, in conjunction with the Chris Burger/Petro Jackson Fund, yesterday took a giant leap towards reducing the occurrence of catastrophic injuries in the sport with the launch of its ground-breaking BokSmart programme.
XSTRATA's effort to merge with Anglo American is still, in my view, a nonstarter. As you would have read in colleague Charlotte Mathews's story in Wednesday's Business Day, Xstrata's board disagrees and the company is spending a lot of money and management time to keep the proposal alive and well.
CHANNEL O award winning South African-based dancehall star and musician Buffalo Soul Jah is currently in the country where he is scheduled to adjudicate at the inaugural Miss Club Monako beauty pageant to be held at the Chisipite joint tomorrow.
“You can’t escape getting drawn into soccer fever,” says Festival Director Ismail Mahomed, and Festival 2010 is not exempt from this football furore.
The first – and most important – thing to realise before seeing this show is that it is not a musical tribute to Billie Holiday.
Out of KwaZulu-Natal comes a well-polished group that uses traditional musical instruments to give a professional performance.
“In the beginning there was a river, the river branched out and turned into a road, and because the road was once a river, it was always hungry,” says the narrator in Helen Iskander’s stage version of Ben Okri’s acclaimed novel, The Famished Road.
Many young people grapple with the tension between traditional beliefs and changing modern culture.
Boebie Hamza put his life on the line to put Prison Codes on at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2009. The risk promises to be worth it.
The Juan, Mariel and Friends concept is as much about providing a platform for others as it is a performance outlet for Juan Muñoz (violin) and Mariel Ilusurio (piano).
When you think of India, four things usually come to mind: spiritual journeys to “find” oneself, Indian food, cricket and Bollywood.
Even when I don’t have electricity in my house, I still wake up in the dark and smile.” This is a reality in the life of the Sibusiso Senele “Mantolo” Masuko, an ex-member of the ANC military wing, uMkhonto weSizwe.
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