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Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's proposed 2012/2013 budget surpasses the R1-trillion rand mark for the first time ever. Tabling his budget in parliament on Wednesday, Gordhan said the bulk of the 1.06 trillion rand budget, or 615-billion rand

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's proposed 2012/13 budget exceeds R1 trillion -- R1.06 trillion -- for the first time ever, with the bulk of spending, R615.7 billion, earmarked for social services. The biggest slice of the budget tabled in the

Cosatu in the Eastern Cape says all its affiliates are ready for the national strike called by the federaton on the 7th of March. The trade union federation says reports received indicated massive support from workers for the strike. Cosatu

The Proteas awarded new caps in the T20 International series against New Zealand to Richard Levi and Marchant de Lange and their performances have given a huge boost to South Africa's prospects ahead of this year's ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka

 The Freedom Front Plus has called for farm murders to be declared a priority crime. The party's north-west leader, Pieter Groenewald made the call today following the murder of a 49 year old farmer on Monday. Groenewald says his party's

An Eastern Cape learner was killed and 11 others injured in two accidents near Mthatha today. Provincial traffic department spokesperson, Tsepo Machaya, says the scholar was hit by a car on the R-61 near Mthatha, this morning. He says the

Western Cape provincial police commissoner, lieutenant-general, Arnoe Lamoer, has welcomed the heavy jail sentences imposed on convicted rapists in the southern cape. Last week a 36 year old Sedgefield man was jailed for life raping his daughter

After the shock withdrawal of Andrew Mclean, multiple South African marathon champion Shan Wilson is reverting to Plan B as he bids to win the three-day Garden Route Rocky Mountain 300 mountain bike race that starts in Knysna on Friday. The Team

Members of the National Prosecuting Authority will be visiting schools in Nelson Mandela Bay this week. NPA spokesperson, Mthunzi Mhaga, says they've initiated a schools programme where they are educating learners about being vigilant about the