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SEATTLE (AP) — Grief-stricken Chris Cornell fans left flowers at memorials across Seattle for the musician whose forceful, somber songs helped cement the city’s place in rock history.One of the locations where people gathered was the

NEW YORK (AP) — A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art Thursday night.Sotheby’s said the sale of “Untitled” was an auction record for the artist

Four more bodies have been retrieved from the Eland Shaft mine in Welkom, while 11 people have been arrested on illegal mining charges, Free State police said on Thursday.“We have registered a case of inquest and I have identified a team of

JOHANNESBURG, May 18 (ANA) – General Motors’ announcement on Thursday, that it was withdrawing its manufacturing facilities from the South African market is a vote of no confidence in government’s leadership of the economy, the

Parliament said that appropriate security would be provided to ANC MP, Dr Makhosi Khoza, who had received death threats for calling on President Jacob Zuma to step down.Dr Khoza said recently that her family had also been threatenedafter she spoke

A new bill aimed at regulating customary male initiation is close to reaching Parliament for processing, Deputy Traditional Affairs Minister Oped Bapela said on Thursday.Briefing journalists on the department of cooperative governance and

JOHANNESBURG, MAY 18 (ANA) – The Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies on Thursday said he has learnt of the announcement by General Motors (GM) South Africa (Pty)Ltd to cease some of their operations in South Africa with “regret and

JOHANNESBURG, May 18 (ANA) – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) postponed the external disciplinary hearing against its former chief operating office Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the public broadcaster said on Thursday.SABC spokesperson

President Jacob Zuma on Thursday visited the family of three-year-old Courtney Pieters who was found murdered and buried in a shallow grave in Elsies River recently.Zuma and his entourage was greeted by throngs of people outside the Pieters family