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Investment should benefit all: Gordhan

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Pretoria - Investment on the continent must be evenly distributed to benefit not only the rich but the poor too - given the high levels of inequity on the continent, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday.

Know your status

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Cape Town - Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has urged South Africans of all ages to go for HIV testing at least once a year.

Cable theft disrupts services in Pretoria

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Pretoria - Telkom services in the Mountainview and Suiderberg areas in Pretoria have been disrupted following an incident of multiple cable theft in the Daspoort exchange area.

D-Day for matrics to register for finals

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Pretoria - Matric candidates who intend to sit for the Grade 12 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations in October have until today to register.

Bara's maternity ward to be extended

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Pretoria - The maternity ward at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital is to get a much needed boost, with plans to extend it and to build an additional unit.

EU decides to suspend aid to Hungary over deficit

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Brussels - European Union (EU) finance ministers have decided to suspend Hungary's access to 495 million euros (US$648.45 million) of aid from 2013, citing the country's failure to rein in its budget deficit, a senior EU official has said.

South Africa elected to ECOSOC

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Pretoria - South Africa has been overwhelmingly elected by the Members of the UN General Assembly to the 47-Member Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

Ray of hope in Gordhan's speech

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Cape Town - With just hours to go before Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers his Budget Speech, many are expecting the speech's mood to be an austere one, but it may just be one tinged strongly with hope and optimism.

Dept investigating attempted prison escape

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Pretoria - The Department of Correctional Services is conducting an investigation into the circumstances that led to an attempted prison escape by three awaiting trial inmates at the C-Max Prison in Pretoria on Wednesday morning.

Four soccer players die in horrific accident

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Polokwane - Four Polokwane City players have been killed and six injured after the mini bus they were travelling in collided with a bakkie and overturned along the R71 road at Nobody, Mankweng, on Sunday evening.