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Broadcaster Pledges Impartial Election Coverage
17.11.2008 08:05
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The SABC will meet major political parties in Cape Town next week to explain how it will ensure its coverage of the 2009 Election will be fair and impartial.
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NGOs Try to Save Anti-Corruption Squad
17.11.2008 08:05
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Two civil society organisations have mounted a last-ditch attempt to get Parliament's upper house to reject the bills that will scrap the Scorpions and create a new organised crime unit in the police service.
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Annan Leads Delegation on Zim Mission
17.11.2008 08:05
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Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan will next week lead a three-member delegation of the Elders Group of Eminent Persons to Zimbabwe to assess the African country's escalating humanitarian crisis.
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G20 Makes Progress
17.11.2008 08:05
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THE weekend's G-20 summit was never going to yield a package of practical proposals to save the world from financial and economic crisis. Nor was it going to be a new "Bretton Woods", the three-week conference in 1944 that created the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
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Is Small-Scale Farming Really the Best Way to Uplift Rural Poor?
17.11.2008 08:05
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IT COMES as no surprise that two-thirds of small-scale farmers in one of SA's poorest rural areas are not making any adjustments to their farming practices in the face of climate change.
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SADC Health Ministers Mark Malaria Day
17.11.2008 08:04
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Health ministers from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) marked Malaria Day on Friday by spraying houses at Mamfene Village in Northern KwaZulu-Natal with DDT pesticide.
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Squeeze Set to Cut Gift Spending
17.11.2008 08:04
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South Africans are set to cut back sharply on their Christmas spending as consumers try to stretch their rands to survive the harshest economic climate in years.
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Missing Toddler Found Dead
17.11.2008 08:04
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The father of the three-year-old Kayamandi boy who went missing a week ago is heartbroken after his son's battered body was found at the weekend.
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Hit-And-Run Accident Claims Cyclist
17.11.2008 08:04
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A 34-year-old Steenberg man was due to appear in the Simon's Town magistrate's court on Monday after he handed himself over to police following a hit-and-run accident in Glencairn in which a cyclist was killed.
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Pikoli Gets Ginwala Probe Report
17.11.2008 08:04
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Suspended National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli has finally received the Ginwala Commission report from President Kgalema Motlanthe.
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Family Remains Mum as Son Fights for His Life
17.11.2008 08:04
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The final-year law student from the University of Stellenbosch who allegedly attacked two young men last week was set to appear in the Stellenbosch magistrate's court on Monday.
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Pregnant Woman Recalls Flood Rescue
17.11.2008 08:04
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"The rain was so heavy that we closed our eyes and ears with our hands, just waiting for it to be over."
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The Dog Gets Some Bite'
17.11.2008 08:04
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Despite media speculation about the safety of his job at Amazulu, coach Clive Barker remains optimistic of a great future with the club.
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Dikgacoi Does Not Fear Eto'o
17.11.2008 08:04
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Bafana Bafana will have nothing to fear from Cameroon when they clash in the Nelson Mandela Challenge at Rustenburg's Olympia Park on Wednesday night.
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Plea to Have Aka Card Rescinded
17.11.2008 08:04
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Maritzburg United are to write a letter to the PSL asking that the yellow card given to their ace striker Brice Aka be rescinded.
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