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New Zealand have stuttered to a precarious 65/4 at stumps on the second day of the second test against South Africa at Seddon Park in Hamilton. They're still 3 runs behind with just the six second innings wickets in hand. Kane Williamson

McLaren driver Jenson Button set the fastest time in the first practice session for Formula One's season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday. Button was a quarter of a second faster than team mate Lewis Hamilton with Mercedes

Teachers union Sadtu in the Eastern Cape has renewed its commitment to improving education in the province. This follows a recent education indaba in East London and the signing of an agreement between trade unions and the Eastern Cape government

South Africa exported R5.2b worth of military equipment during the last three quarters of 2011, according to the National Conventional Arms Control Committee, representing an apparent drop in exports. Figures released to Parliament show that

Two scholars were killed and a third critically injured Thursday afternoon when they were hit by an out-of-control bus on a district road near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. Netcare 911 says the boys had been walking on the side of the road when they

 Absa has denied rumours that it is planning mass retrenchments to cut costs. It says employees affected by its restructuring process are being given the opportunity to apply for positions across the group. It was responding after

The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber says the official opening of the Port of Ngqura on Friday is a positive signal of government's commitment to the Eastern Cape. Chamber CEO, Kevin Hustler, says the presidential "stamp of approval"

The development of a R2bn rand wind farm in the Kouga district has moved a step closer. The municipality's standing committee on Infrastructure Planning and Development has approved a rezoning application by the developers, Red Cap Kouga, but the

The fossilised remains of stone age people recovered from two caves in south west China may belong to a new species of human that survived until around the dawn of agriculture. The partial skulls and other bone fragments, which are from at least