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Jan 15
SAPS hits out at report of rising criminality within police
THE South African Police Service (SAPS) has hit back at the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) report on criminality within the service, saying it is based on suspect methodology and reveals nothing new.
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Jan 15
SA’s rich ‘likely to bear brunt of expected tax increases’
HAVING already announced a raft of austerity measures five months into his position, Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene now has to consider raising taxes, particularly on luxury goods and capital gains.
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Jan 15
Minister challenges unions on minimum wage issue
LABOUR Minister Mildred Oliphant on Wednesday urged organised labour to be clear on the common ground for the framework of a national minimum wage, or be subject to the same risks of unclear majorities in current systems of collective bargaining that some employers are able to exploit.
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Jan 15
Not enough incentives for whistle-blowers
THERE were not enough incentives for people to expose corruption, Deputy Public Protector Kevin Malunga said on Wednesday.
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Jan 15
KZN’s mystery R61m hospital bus tender
Durban - A tender for four mobile clinics in KwaZulu-Natal will end up costing taxpayers a "crazy" R61m - and only two of the units have been delivered.
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Jan 15
Ebola’s toll on pregnant women
Treatment and care for women with pregnancy-related issues is incredibly complicated in Ebola stricken nations say medical experts.
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Jan 15
Gauteng takes steps towards paperless education
Grade nine pupils in a school in Tembisa, Johannesburg listen attentively to their teacher as she asks them to work out an equation in a financial literacy class.
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Jan 15
It may be ‘slightly harder’ to afford to buy a home
Prospective home-buyers may find it slightly more difficult to afford a property this year than in 2014, because growth in wages and salaries will not keep pace with the expected nominal growth in residential property prices of between eight and nine percent.
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Jan 15
Blackouts cut forecast for interest rates hike
ELECTRICITY blackouts are threatening SA’s economic growth, giving investors a reason to scale back bets for higher interest rates.
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Jan 15
Disobedience, civil or otherwise, may win the day in e-tolls battle
THE resistance to electronic tolling on Gauteng freeways has been hailed as the largest civil disobedience campaign in the history of SA’s democracy, but not everyone agrees that motorists’ widespread refusal to pay e-tolls qualifies as civil disobedience.
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