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South Africa's Agricultural Research Council has appealed against the government's decision to reject a genetically modified (GM) potato it was hoping to release to farmers. (AllAfrica)

South Africa's first bio-bank, a cold storage facility where samples from HIV clinical trials and other diseases can be stored for years to support future medical research, was launched in Johannesburg, recently. (AllAfrica)

There is greater frankness today about development policy failures in Africa. It was reflected in President Barack Obama’s speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11 when he stated: "Development depends on good governance. That is the ingredient that has been missing in far too many places for far too long." (AllAfrica)

Government has decided to terminate the controversial contract to purchase eight military A400 Airbus strategic lift aircraft. (AllAfrica)

National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele has taken a jab at media around the so-called "shoot-to-kill" statement. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu says it would have been "beyond comprehensible" for government to commit to spending such a large amount of money on purchasing eight Airbus A400M military transport aircraft. (AllAfrica)

South Africa will join other leading nations in calling for a comprehensive, ambitious and fair international climate change deal to be clinched at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference. (AllAfrica)

DESPITE enjoying a good relationship with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), punctuated by compliments and goodwill gestures, the reality is that drug testing in SA is not plain sailing, and doping starts at a young age. (AllAfrica)

DIANNE Muller, the former fiancée of convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti, told the South Gauteng High Court yesterday she packed R110000 into a white bank bag , which Agliotti later gave to former police commissioner Jackie Selebi. (AllAfrica)

The credibility of the parole system has been damaged by the release of President Jacob Zuma 's former financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, on medical parole, the head of the Council for Corrections, Judge Siraj Desai, said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

THE African National Congress (ANC) and its leftist allies want President Jacob Zuma to head up the state's planning commission, saying that if the government is to have a coherent developmental plan, the president has to "arbitrate" between competing interests. (AllAfrica)

A WEEK after Eskom's board asked CEO Jacob Maroga to resign, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan told Parliament yesterday that Maroga should not shoulder the blame for Eskom's problems alone. (AllAfrica)

BECAUSE coups should generally not be encouraged, we are uncomfortable about the prospect that President Jacob Zuma might have played an important role in the early release of four South African mercenaries who have just been granted amnesty for a failed 2004 coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. (AllAfrica)

AS ANY childcare expert will tell you, if you want to get difficult kiddies to behave, it's best to try to reinforce the positives, not just berate them for the negatives. (AllAfrica)

BY NOT protesting against the decay of social services and public schooling, all South Africans are to blame for high rates of crime and unemployment among youths, says businesswoman and anti- apartheid activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele. (AllAfrica)

The government's AIDS treatment programme may have begun to put the brakes on SA's rising death rate, a senior official of the Department of Health told Parliament yesterday. (AllAfrica)

A man claiming to be the Basic Education Minister's son was arrested for drunken driving. (iafrica.com)

The farmer killed on a Pietermaritzburg farm has been identified as an ex government official. (iafrica.com)

Police shot dead seven armed robbers on Sunday morning in Polokwane, Limpopo. (iafrica.com)

Sascoc announced that ASA athletes will be able to compete despite ASA's suspension. (iafrica.com)

A world record has been set in SA for the most women to parade around in a bikini. (iafrica.com)

Anglo Coal mineworkers marched to company headquarters on Saturday to voice their grievances. (iafrica.com)

Cape Town International's new R1.6-billion terminal building is open and in use. (iafrica.com)

Gender violence activism days will be launched later this month. (iafrica.com)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change. (irinnews.org)

Sales of passenger vehicles and light and heavy commercial vehicles continued to decline in October, though sales of medium commercial vehicles jumped by 15% and exports soared by 50% - helped by a recovery in South Africa's export markets. (SouthAfrica.info)

South Africa's First National Bank has started operating in Zambia, taking advantage of an investor-friendly environment with low political risk to expand in the southern African country. (SouthAfrica.info)

Johannesburg's Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge, the world's second-biggest individually timed mass-participation cycle race, takes place on 15 November with a prize purse of R360 000 - and over 23 000 cyclists already entered. (SouthAfrica.info)

Congress of South African Trade Unions secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday urged the government to transform the economy, saying the market-driven polices of the past were to blame for poor delivery and, in part, the recession.

While most people are well aware of the years of civil unrest which led to the demise of Apartheid in 1994, not as many know about the secret talks that simultaneously transpired for almost a decade between the South African government and the African National Congress , the political party spearheading the independence movement.

By Khanyisa Tabata 06 November 2009 The Government says there has been no word yet on the return to South Africa of four mercenaries pardoned this week by the government of Equatorial Guinea.