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Right2Know campaign has launched an "Hands of our grants" initiative on the ongoing Sassa debacle.

Six people have been killed and one injured in a multiple car pile-up on the N8 near Botshabelo, east of Bloemfontein.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o says African universities should be a platform for the promotion of the continent's languages. Wa Thiong'o was addressing academics and the public on the East London campus of Fort Hare University.

It is business as usual at the Charlotte Maxeke hospital in Johannesburg following Thursday's roof collapse.

Social Development Director-General, Zane Dangor says their negotiations with CPS are at an advanced stage.

President Jacob Zuma is expected to officially hand over the memorial grave site of Steve Bantu Biko to the Biko family on the 21st of March.

Corporate law expert, Tshepo Mongalo, says anti-competitive behavior among companies should be criminalized.

Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services spokesperson, William Ntladi says the operation has been temporarily suspended.

The incoming president of the United Nations Security Council has rejected the notion of anti-Israeli bias among member states in the Council.

The DA has launched a court challenge to have the deployment of armed soldiers declared unconstitutional. Maimane insisted that Ramaphosa answer the question as leader of Government Business.

Ramaphosa told Maimane that it was premature to answer because the DA had taken the matter to court

The Competition Commission says Unilever has to pay a fine of 10% of its annual turnover. This after the commission found Unilever and Sime Darby had entered in a sale agreement not to compete with each other.

Kathleen Kahn fromof the School of Public Health (University of the Witwatersrand) and the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), says major changes in mortality have been driven by the HIV/Aids epidemic.

A new study has found that two thirds of patients with extensive drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) have incurable TB.

A new study has found that two thirds of patients with extensive drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) have incurable TB.

Former, PRASA Acting CEO, Collins Letsoalo was fired due to his salary increase, which the board says it did not authorise.

PRASA has terminated Acting CEO, Collins Letsoalo's contract after it emerged that he had hiked his salary by 350%.

Nzimande says the deployment reflects negatively on internal processes within the ANC-led alliance.

This after reports that the crime-fighting unit was investigating deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas for allegedly facilitating a deal between a US aircraft company and SA Airways.

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South African Revenue Services (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane has accused Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan of interference in SARS' operations. Briefing the media in Pretoria , the commissioner said the minister is also delaying the appointment of key SARS officials.

Roads leading in and out of Atteridgeville have been barricaded with burning tyres, stones and other objects.

Colonel Lungelo Dlamini says sufficient police have been deployed in specific areas around Tshwane including Atteridgeville.

Economist and researcher at Wits University Gilad Isaacs says the announcement by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan that those who earn more than R1.5 million annually will be taxed 45% of their personal income.

The countries intension to sign a multilateral instrument this year which will assist in the updating of treaties and will also reduce the scope for aggressive tax avoidance activities is one of the good things according to Gilad.