Abram Mahlaba
Digital Journalist based in Pretoria West, South Africa.
Joined on Mar 13, 2010
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Johannesburg -
The Federation of International Football Association gave South Africa R685 million (about $100millon) bonus yesterday for hosting the 2010 World Cup.
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Cape Town -
Zola Tongo, the taxi driver who implicated Shrien Dewani for plotting the murder of his wife while honeymooning in South Africa, had not disclosed to his family that he would be sentenced to an effective 18 years in prison after signing a plea bargain.
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Cape Town -
The Western Cape High Court has heard today that Shrien Dewani plotted the murder of his wife.
Zola Tongo, 31, has in his plea bargain agreement told the Western Cape High Court that Shrien has conspired with him to have his wife killed.
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Former South African president, Thabo Mbeki has been asked by the African Union to help resolve the presidential dispute in Cote d Ivoire.
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Kolda -
About 3000 people marched with banners denouncing female circumcision and forced marriages in southern region of Kolda, Senegal on Sunday.
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Cape Town -
Three suspects in the murder of Anni Dewani case will appear in court today after being singled out by witnesses in the identification parade this weekend.
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Johannesburg -
A recent study has revealed that one third of men in Gauteng, South Africa admitted to having raped a woman at some point in their lives.
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Cairo -
The Nigerian Football Federation has lodged a complaint against Equatorial Guinea for fielding a man in the recent African Women’s Championships in South Africa.
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The South African civil servants who were responsible for the three-week long strike that saw hospitals and schools crippled, did not sign the government’s final wage offer by the deadline on Tuesday.
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Johannesburg -
According to the latest reports of Statistics South Africa, a total of 4.3 million South Africans were unemployed at the first quarter of 2010. This is an unemployment increase of 0.9 of a percentage point.
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Pretoria -
About 36,000 people gathered at Eesterus Stadium in Pretoria yesterday in what was dubbed by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God as ‘All Answers Events’ in South Africa.
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Durban -
Tony Yengeni, the National Executive Council's member of ANC did not mince his words at the third day of the African National Congress National General Council meeting in Durban as he accused the alliance partners of impugning the leadership of the ANC.
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Despite ANC’s youth Leagues party president, Julius Malema saying that the league does not have issues with Jacob Zuma’s leadership, Zuma criticized the league with a clear tone.
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Rubber bullets flew around as students threw stones at police vehicles while others were attempting to write preliminary examinations in several schools around the country yesterday.
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The class of 2010 will sit for examinations in 40 days after the three-week old public servants’ strike, which has dealt them a major blow.
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The four weeks old public service strike that has crippled almost all public departments has been suspended by the unions for at least 21 days.
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According to the Independent newspapers, the government is determined to end the three-week old strike after negotiations continued until late last night.
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The ANC Youth league’s members cheered and encouraged Zanu PF’s Youth League’s speakers at their general council this weekend as they urged them to take Mugabe’s example and grab land from the white minority and nationalize mines “now or never."
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Johannesburg -
While President Zuma is busy signing a dozen of successful deals in China, the strikers want him back immediately to resolve the deadlock.
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A group of striking nurses and other workers stormed past the security guards into the Dora Ngiza Hospital and shouted at the army, the army medics and the volunteering workers to get out of the hospital.
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