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CHARLES Laird will saddle a powerful team of five runners in Saturday's R2m Sansui Summer Cup at Turffontein, but many punters are putting their faith in Piere Strydom's mount, Magical.
INJURED Springbok prop Gurthro Steenkamp believes his team-mates have the fighting spirit and experience to defy the odds and beat Ireland at Croke Park on Saturday in the final Test on tour.
CONVICTIONS for environmental crimes fell nearly two thirds in the year to March, thanks to a failure by the National Prosecuting Authority to prioritise such cases, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said yesterday.
The Department of Human Settlements has admitted to spending R22,6m last year on what Democratic Alliance spokesman Butch Steyn describes as a "scandalous Sarafina-style" theatre production.
SOUTH African airlines will for the first time face direct competition from Air Namibia on certain African routes after it was granted fifth-freedom rights by the respective governments.
INFLATION has dropped back into the target range for the first time in 31 months, but it may not stay there for long.
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) yesterday conceded that a campaign to "change the work ethic" in the public service was needed to meet the challenge of poor service delivery.
Coach Amos Kamya will be hoping to enhance his credentials as a knowledgeable tactician when he leads the 4-man national amateur team to compete in the 72-hole International Teams Golf Championship in South Africa today.
Zimbabwean and South African businesswomen have moved a gear up in their pursuit to forge investment and trade ties, with the Professional Women, Women Executives and Businesswomen Forum (Proweb), this week hosting a delegation of women investors from SA's Women Investments Portfolio Holdings Limited (Wiphold).
Department of Communications has announced the approval of a R1.473 billion bank guarantee for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
ALTHOUGH poverty levels were at their lowest for at least 10 years due to the effects of social grants, four out of 10 South Africans still lived in poverty last year , the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said yesterday.
THE corruption trial of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi has been delayed until next Tuesday to allow State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele 's advocate to get further instructions.
YOUNG Communist League (YCL) national secretary Buti Manamela says the call by its counterpart in the African National Congress (ANC) to nationalise mines only amounts to "state capitalism" and would not restore SA's mineral wealth to the people.
South Africa's economy turned around in the third quarter of 2009, registering marginal growth, the government's statistics agency reported Wednesday.
Minister of Women, Children and People living with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has called for perpetrators of abuse towards women and children to be given stiff sentences.
Africa has a responsibility to ensure conditions prevail for a stable political situation in Sudan, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said on Wednesday.
President Jacob Zuma is expected to depart for the Port of Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
GAUTENG roads and transport MEC Bheki Nkosi yesterday moved to quash speculation that the government was considering making additional funding available to the Bombela Consortium to complete the airport link of the Gautrain in time for the Soccer World Cup.
WITH 450000 soccer fans expected to descend on SA next June, it is not surprising that there is already a scramble for accommodation and flights.
With little more than two months to go before media accreditation for the World Cup closes, governing body Fifa and local media are locked in a standoff over restrictive terms and conditions imposed by Fifa on journalists and their publications.
South Africa has emerged from its first recession in seventeen years.
GOOD governance expert, Professor Mervyn King believes that you will have less corruption when you have good culture in an organisation. "I define culture as how we do things when nobody is watching us. Culture is developed from the strategic thinking of a company."
North West Premier Maureen Modiselle has warned heads of department that she will not tolerate corruption especially by senior officials in government.
In the small and dusty town of Donkerhoek in Jacobsdal, just outside Bloemfontein, poverty and unemployment have ravaged the close knit community for years, writes Edwin Tshivhidzo.
The Department of Tourism is to launch the fifth and final Visitor Information Centre in Nelspruit next week.
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