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The Asset Forfeiture Unit has seized assets valued at R55m from suspected rhino poachers in Polokwane in Limpopo. Colonel Vishnu Naidoo said the assets were believed to have been acquired through crime, particularly rhino poaching. They were

More than 300 learners at Patensie Secondary School have embarked on a protest against teacher shortages. The decision to protest was taken at a meeting of the school's governing body yesterday to put pressure on Eastern Cape education

A trip to the Grahamstown Science Festival had ignited a passion for the high seas in Grade 11 Mthatha learner, Xoliswa Bekiswa. Now, several years later, she is part of a handful of black women making history with Transnet National Ports

Four people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of 12-year-old schoolboy Nayati Moodliar in Malaysia. The boy is in Malaysia on a Dutch passport, and has South African family. A report from Kuala Lumpur says three men and a

The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry says its concerned by the increase in the official unemployment figure to 25.3% in the first quarter of 2012. Statistics South Africa says 75,000 people lost their jobs in the first quarter of

The Competition Tribunal has imposed fines of more than R27m on two wire mesh companies for price fixing and allocating customers. The tribunal fined Reinforcing Mesh Solutions R21.6m for its participation in a cartel from 2004 to 2008 while

Constitutional Court judges asked on Tuesday how Menzi Simelane was chosen as the best man for National Director of Public Prosecutions despite an adverse report on him. "My question is, why would a person who is controversial, be the first

A teenager and two men were killed when a school bus and a truck crashed on the N2 between Mount Ayliff and Mount Frere on Tuesday, Eastern Cape police said. A total of 62 people were injured, spokesman Captain Mlungisi Matidane said. The

Walter Sisulu University will present a holistic turn-around plan to the Department of Higher Education by the end of the month that aims to take the embattled institution into the future. That's the word from professor Lourens van Staden, the