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Department of Communications has announced the approval of a R1.473 billion bank guarantee for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). (AllAfrica)

ALTHOUGH poverty levels were at their lowest for at least 10 years due to the effects of social grants, four out of 10 South Africans still lived in poverty last year , the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

THE corruption trial of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi has been delayed until next Tuesday to allow State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele 's advocate to get further instructions. (AllAfrica)

YOUNG Communist League (YCL) national secretary Buti Manamela says the call by its counterpart in the African National Congress (ANC) to nationalise mines only amounts to "state capitalism" and would not restore SA's mineral wealth to the people. (AllAfrica)

South Africa's economy turned around in the third quarter of 2009, registering marginal growth, the government's statistics agency reported Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Women, Children and People living with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has called for perpetrators of abuse towards women and children to be given stiff sentences. (AllAfrica)

Africa has a responsibility to ensure conditions prevail for a stable political situation in Sudan, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

President Jacob Zuma is expected to depart for the Port of Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. (AllAfrica)

GAUTENG roads and transport MEC Bheki Nkosi yesterday moved to quash speculation that the government was considering making additional funding available to the Bombela Consortium to complete the airport link of the Gautrain in time for the Soccer World Cup. (AllAfrica)

WITH 450000 soccer fans expected to descend on SA next June, it is not surprising that there is already a scramble for accommodation and flights. (AllAfrica)

With little more than two months to go before media accreditation for the World Cup closes, governing body Fifa and local media are locked in a standoff over restrictive terms and conditions imposed by Fifa on journalists and their publications. (AllAfrica)

South Africa has emerged from its first recession in seventeen years. (AllAfrica)

During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds. (AllAfrica)

GOOD governance expert, Professor Mervyn King believes that you will have less corruption when you have good culture in an organisation. "I define culture as how we do things when nobody is watching us. Culture is developed from the strategic thinking of a company." (AllAfrica)

North West Premier Maureen Modiselle has warned heads of department that she will not tolerate corruption especially by senior officials in government. (AllAfrica)

The Department of Tourism is to launch the fifth and final Visitor Information Centre in Nelspruit next week. (AllAfrica)

In the small and dusty town of Donkerhoek in Jacobsdal, just outside Bloemfontein, poverty and unemployment have ravaged the close knit community for years, writes Edwin Tshivhidzo. (AllAfrica)

Gauteng MEC for Health and Social Development, Qedani Mahlangu, has ordered pharmacists and clinics to improve the management of medicines. (AllAfrica)

Chairperson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Irene Charnley has welcomed the approval of a R1.473 billion bank guarantee. (AllAfrica)

Informal traders incensed at the City's clampdown on trading stalls which contravene the Land Use Planning Ordinance and city by-laws, have threatened to disrupt service delivery during the 2010 World Cup. (AllAfrica)

An attempt by an informal grouping of COPE members in the Western Cape to address concerns over the interim leadership in the province, was on the weekend shunned by the party's national leadership. (AllAfrica)

The Provincial Department of Local Government and Housing on Tuesday announced that they were embarking on a R2.5 million exercise to update their housing demand database. (AllAfrica)

In the middle of one of the most gang-ridden areas of the Cape Flats flourishes a 300 square metre organic vegetable garden which is changing the lives and attitudes of a score of youngsters. (AllAfrica)

The Group which concentrates on trophy properties in prime urban locations says it's had a watershed first year listed on AltX, outperforming market expectations despite the global financial crisis. (AllAfrica)

The City of Johannesburg is aware of an intention by certain parties to start prosecution action against it following a fire that gutted the Rissik Street Post Office building earlier this month. (AllAfrica)

Home Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will on Wednesday address the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Executive Committee on the challenges faced by her department. (AllAfrica)

The National Compliance and Enforcement Report (NCER), which provides an overview of environmental compliance and enforcement activities in the country, is to be released on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

THE economy's return to growth "closes the door on any further interest rate cuts", financial services firm Investec said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

THE state's near inertia in the face of national crises -- from the impact of the runaway job losses this past year to the electricity shortfall almost two years ago -- is a continual source of surprise. (AllAfrica)

TELKOM is becoming the latest parastatal to set the alarm bells ringing. (AllAfrica)

A Western Cape restaurant has heard complaints that patrons are having sex under a carport. (iafrica.com)