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Strike on hold

The public servants' strike has been suspended for 21 days, union officials say. Read More...

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Four arrested with illegal guns

Four men have been arrested in Tembisa for the possession of unlicensed firearms, say Gauteng police. Read More...

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Zuma attack irks young communists

The Young Communist League has distanced itself from its national chairperson David Masondo's criticism of the business dealings of President Jacob Zuma's family. Read More...

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Man tried raping 10 Thai kids

A 61-year-old Frenchman has appeared in court charged with raping or sexually abusing ten Thai girls aged between the ages of six and 11. Read More...

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Israel FM pushes for settlements

Israel's hard-line foreign minister has said that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail Mideast peace talks. Read More...

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Cholera kills 300+ in Cameroon

Unicef says more than 300 people have died in the West African nation of Cameroon from the country’s worst cholera outbreak in 20 years. Read More...

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Charges dropped in Travolta case

A judge in the Bahamas has dropped charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta following the death of his teenage son. Read More...

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Stem cell expert wins Balzan prize

The Balzan Foundation says its prize for the biology of stem cells has gone to a Japanese researcher for discovering a way to transform adult cells. Read More...

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Africa needs no lessons – Kagame

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has hit back at his international critics, using his inauguration for a second term to insist that African needs no lessons from the wider world. Read More...

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SA gets new Zulu dictionary

Oxford University Press has published a new Zulu-English dictionary, four decades after the last such reference book was released for one of SA's most widely spoken languages. Read More...

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Van Schalkwyk refutes DA criticism

Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has rejected allegations by the DA that he had shown disregard for Parliament by repeatedly failing to appear to answer questions. Read More...

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UK cops might probe tabloid

One of Britain's best-selling newspapers has denied that it engaged in widespread phone hacking, but police say they might re-open a probe into those claims. Read More...

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Zuma drives ANC membership boost

President Jacob Zuma is on a two-day visit to Mpumalanga in support of the ANC's drive to boost its membership to one million by 2012. Read More...

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Police arrest 148 after Moz riots

Almost 150 people have been arrested in Mozambique in the wake of riots over soaring bread prices in which 10 people were killed, a report says. Read More...

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Jake: Give me Div's job

Jake White wants his old job back, but only as an interim measure before handing over to his former assistant Allister Coetzee after 2011. Read More...

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