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The ANC Youth League national executive committee met yesterday to discuss leader Julius Malema's expulsion from the mother party and decide on a way forward. The league said it would hold a press briefing later today to discuss the outcomes of the

Police and disaster management services say Cyclone Irina remains a threat to the KwaZulu-Natal coast. The National Joint Operational Centre says the weather system is likely to remain over open water between Maputo and Richards Bay for the next

Trade union federation Cosatu will hold several marches in the Eastern Cape this week to protest against labour brokering. The marches form part of a nation-wide campaign by Cosatu to get government to ban labour brokers. Cosatu says marches

The Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape says it expects the MEC for Finance and Provincial Planning, Phumulo Masualle, to announce a provincial budget in the region of R58 billion on Tuesday. DA-MPL, Bobby Stevenson, says the dark shadow

Bystanders have saved a four-year-old boy from drowning in shallow water in the Knysna lagoon. The National Sea Rescue Institute says NSRI volunteers responded to a distress call, and found the boy unconscious and struggling for breath, lying on

Rescue operations were underway in various flooded parts of the northern coastal parts of KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday. Co-operative governance MEC, Nomusa Dube says they are hard at work assisting people whose houses have been flooded by

Cosatu's secretary-genetal, Zwelinzima Vavi says the federation's planned march for Wednesday is not about campaigning for the ANC's elective conference in Mangaung later this year. He says the March 7 strike is against e-tolling and the banning

More than 27 000 police officers on active duty have failed firearm proficiency tests. The Sunday Times reports that this was according to a performance report dated 14 December last year, by the SA Police Service's internal audit unit. The

South African sheep shearer, Mayenzeke Shweni was crowned world champion blade shearer at the World Shearing Championships in New Zealand on Saturday. Cape Wools' spokesperson, Ona Viljoen says Shweni's team-mate, three-time champion