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 The Cacadu District Municipality is celebrating a clean audit report from the Auditor General for the 2010/2011 financial year. Speaking at the first council meeting of the year today, Executive Mayor Eunice Kekana, praised her colleagues

 More than 1,500 of the 2,000-plus temmporary teachers without posts, have been reappointed by the Eastern Cape Education Department. Democratic Alliance MPL, Edmund van Vuuren, says this will relieve the pressure on those schools with a

 Justin Ontong's outstanding form for the Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras in both the SuperSport Series and the domestic 1-Day Cup has earned him a recall to the Proteas' Castle Lager squad for both the ODI and T20 series against New Zealand

 Port Elizabeth police are investigating a case of murder after a badly decomposed body was found in a field in Booysens Park. Police spokesperson, Captain Johan Rheeder, says the body was discovered by two men chopping wood in the vicinity

 More than 30 people were injured when a Translux bus overturned on the N9 main road in the Karoo on Tuesday. The accident happened at about 6AM between Graaff-Reinet and Aberdeen. Provincial traffic spokesperson Tshepo Machaea says no

A massive search was conducted last night for a SANParks ranger and an intern who were swept out to sea after their dinghy apparently hit a rock near Bird Island. NSRI spokesperson, Craig Lambinon, says the men, who are stationed at Bird Island

 From the Regional Space Weather Warning Centre at the Space Science Directorate of the South African National Space Agency in Hermanus A large sunspot, from region 1402 on the sun, which has a large latitudinal extent and is located in a

South African Branden Grace beat his idols and more experienced countrymen Ernie Els and Retief Goosen to win a playoff for the Volvo Golf Champions at The Links at Fancourt on Sunday. Grace lives in Knysna and plays out of George Golf Club as the

Cape Town - The Earth will not bear the brunt of the coronal mass ejection that will hit the planet on Tuesday. "Its source was an active area about 45° to 50° off the equator of the sun," Kobus Olckers, space weather officer at