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The R1m bail of a businessman accused of defrauding the KwaZulu-Natal education department, has been cancelled. Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Gregory Kruger ordered yesterday that Jabulani Zakhele Mabaso be taken into custody. He failed to

The number of people killed in a crash on the road between Kokstad and Umzimkulu has risen to 12, with the death of a teenager in hospital. Ten adults and a five-year-old child died on Monday when a truck and a Toyota Venture collided on the R56

The Road Traffic Management Corporation says it is still waiting to hear if the National Treasury has written off the R200m it owes the transport department. The RTMC has told the standing committee on public accounts that it did not have the money

 Government has honoured an 80-year-old driver as a "sterling example", for going 62 years without a single traffic fine, in a nation where 40 people are killed on the roads every day. Hazel Souma was handed a certificate for her

 One hundred rhino were killed by poachers in the first two months of 2012, compared with 400 rhino killed in the whole of 2011. That's according to a spokesperson for the newly launched "rhino orphanage" in Limpopo. Arrie van

 An East London woman has been arrested for trying to bribe a police officer in order to quash a case. Police spokesperson, Captain Stephen Marais, says the 43-year-old woman was arrested last month for selling liquor without a licence

The Tobacco Industry of Southern Africa says at least 15-thousand jobs have been lost over the last 10 years due to the smuggling of contraband cigarettes. TISA chairperson Francois van der Merwe says the illegal trade of cigarettes is crippling

Damaging new claims have emerged about the funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign and his links with former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The French investigative website Mediapart claims to have seen a confidential note suggesting

Researchers in Florence, Italy say they are one step closer to proving a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, The Battle of Anghiari, is painted on a hidden wall in a cavity in Florence's town hall, where it has remained unseen for five centuries