The SA Weather Service warned of the possibility of runaway fires as gale force winds blasted parts of the country on Saturday.

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BUSINESS tycoon Hendrik Dawids will once again have the chance to get into one of the country’s football hot seats when he goes head to head with Peter van Wyk for the Namibia Premier League chairmanship on …

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Two Christian bodies expressed concern on Friday at a Pretoria High Court ruling that the NG Kerk in Moreleta Park had unfairly discriminated against a gay music teacher when it fired him.

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The Democratic Alliance’s main partner in the Cape Town city government, the Independent Democrats, on Wednesday blocked a bid to fine an errant DA councillor on the grounds that the punishment was too light.

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Jacob Zuma faces a trial next year as the country heads to the polls The new leaders of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress are scrambling to fix the party’s image ahead of elections next year, but …

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Seven inmates at Mutimurefu prison in Masvingo died of hunger related diseases,as the government reversed a food aid ban on Friday.

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A South African who was a U.S. track star faces prison on fraud charges here.

South African media report Sydney Maree was convicted and sentenced earlier this month in Pretoria to 10 years, five of them suspended, for stealing about 1 million rand from a government agency he headed in 2003.

The agency helped businesses started by blacks, who had been deprived of opportunities under apartheid.

Maree, 52, is on bail pending appeal.

Maree attended Pennsylvania’s Villanova University in the 1970s. He later took U.S. citizenship, and in 1985 he set American records for 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters.

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Harare - Zimbabwe on Friday lifted a ban on aid agencies suspended ahead of the June 27 presidential run-off over accusations that some of them were siding with the opposition.

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Married South African Hindu nurses have won the right to continue wearing the traditional red dot, or the bindi , on their foreheads after intervention by the provincial health minister.

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Last weekend, Windhoek was a ghost town. Even though Monday was a working day, Tuesday was Heroes’ Day and many people took Monday off too to have an extended four-day weekend.

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