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Gupta rage sideshow, ANC is real hijacker

Sam Mkokeli: Anti-Gupta rage, and its theoretical crutch of ‘state capture by private interests’, ignores fundamental facts about post-apartheid state’s performance

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  SA to hold Africa Month again to address xenophobia, says Zuma

  President Jacob Zuma tells a Human Rights Day rally in Durban that xenophobia and racism have no place in SA

  Politics

  • Cyril Ramaphosa misses Uitenhage service after air force flight cancelled
  • We have confidence in Zuma, says ANC

  Media

  • Sunday Times launches improved mobile app
  • DA approaches High Court to set aside Motsoeneng disciplinary inquiry

  Labour

  • Judge asks union Samwu why it should not be held in contempt of court
  • SA gold miners form lung disease working group

  Science & environment

  • Communities in drive to clean up the Duzi River
  • Farmers left out in cold over drought intervention

  Law & constitution

  • Do we want a system that allows a judge to separate justice and the law?
  • SA was obliged to arrest Bashir, court rules

  Education

  • Stellenbosch academics feel the strain of dual language decision
  • Student protesters cause more than R145m in damages in three months

  Health

  • Global health activists lobby UN panel in SA on medicine access
  • Mbeki’s poor judgment left more than just a death legacy

  Opinion

  • COMMENT: High time the ANC took decisive action against this scourge
  • Mbeki’s poor judgment left more than just a death legacy

  Columnists

  • THICK END OF THE WEDGE: #Gupta: An affair to remember
  • ‘Spoils factionalism’ will ensure Zuma stays in place
• Africa

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  ICC convicts Congo’s former vice-president Bemba of war crimes

  Landmark verdict finds Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of a deliberate campaign of widespread rapes and killings by his private army in Central African Republic

  African News

  • Tense Congolese vote takes place under media blackout
  • Zanzibar incumbent wins poll boycotted by opposition
  • Zimbabwe to evaluate compensation for evicted farmers
  • UN worried about row with Morocco over Western Sahara
  • International justice for crimes in Africa must be prioritised

  African Business

  • Zimbabwean banks use rand amid dollar drought
  • Egyptian stocks set to extend record streak
  • African Bank to offer limited service from next month
  • JPMorgan to assist Barclays
  • Proposed restructuring of Mozambique bond ‘tantamount to default’
  • Nigeria lifts suspension of MTN services

  African Perspectives

  • Ivory Coast attack should not cause waves of fear
  • Decision by Dos Santos to step down is good for Angola and for Africa
  • SA’s ignorance of Africa does everyone a disservice
  • Will Zuma’s visit to Nigeria bolster trade?
  • Blood in the fields as big business eats up Ethiopia

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  Apple unveils smaller, cheaper iPhone with an eye on China

  Tech giant Apple hopes the cheaper iPhone SE will stimulate overall iPhone sales, especially in smartphone-savvy China and other emerging markets

  Africa

  • ICC convicts Congo’s former vice-president Bemba of war crimes
  • Zimbabwean banks use rand amid dollar drought

  Europe

  • Paris attacks suspect worth his weight in gold, says lawyer
  • Flight recorders badly damaged in Russia plane crash

  Asia-Pacific

  • North Korea fires short-range missiles as tension ratchets up
  • US lifts export curbs on China’s ZTE temporarily

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  • Tusk cautious on deal with Ankara on migrants
  • Putin lauds his troops’ role in Syria

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  • Apple unveils smaller, cheaper iPhone with an eye on China
  • Barack Obama sees change coming in Cuba

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  • Analyses show US voters leaning to the left
  • UK’s sins of taxation need fixing

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  STREET DOGS: Reprehensible Mr Miser

  Michel Pireu: What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?

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  • EDITORIAL: Bashir ruling a timely reminder

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  • NATASHA MARRIAN: ‘Spoils factionalism’ will ensure Zuma stays in place

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  Global stocks take cue from Chinese equities and US interest rate outlook

  Shares edge up in Europe and Asia, ignoring oil’s fall on oversupply fear, while in currencies sterling takes a pounding, in a rare reaction to British politics

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  • Oil under pressure from surprise addition of US rig
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  State urged to help localise aluminium value chain

  Local beneficiation of aluminium will allow motor companies to stop importing up to 50% of metals used in their cars

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  • Bank points to political uncertainty fuelling rand volatility
  • Reserve Bank raises interest rates by 25 basis points
  • Inflation expectations for first quarter of 2016 are unchanged, says BER
  • Motor sales decline on effect of last year’s rate hikes
  • Wholesale trade fell in January

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  10.5%

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  Opinion

  • Raising competitiveness of regions in provinces’ hands
  • WTO’s record boosts its hand in talks

  Columnists

  • SONGEZO ZIBI: Leaner SA needs policy reorientation and real sacrifices
  • HILARY JOFFE: A country downgrade would be utter misery for all

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  Call to restore confidence in office of the president

  Business Leadership SA urges the ANC to take decisive action at the National Executive Committee meeting over recent political developments

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  • Claims of Gupta family interference very concerning to mining industry
  • SA to keep preferential access under Agoa
  • York shows strong growth, despite weak economy

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  • Women leave companies because of compensation issues, not family demands
  • ON WORK: High heels and boxing gloves: a portrait of female professionals
  • THE POINT: Lean start-ups will excite SA’s young people

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  Apple unveils smaller, cheaper iPhone with an eye on China

  Tech giant Apple hopes the cheaper iPhone SE will stimulate overall iPhone sales, especially in smartphone-savvy China and other emerging markets

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  • Sanral to start issuing summonses for e-toll debt
  • Gold Fields falls after issuing more shares
  • Commission denies water tanks merger on fear of unilateral price hikes
  • Shareholders battle Sovereign pool

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  Fassler teaches new kids what is trendy

  Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Joburg showcases what is happening at both ends of the spectrum with Marianne Fassler and the AFI Fast Track, writes Mary Corrigall

  Arts & Entertainment

  • Doorway to the Brinks’ world of unspoken feelings
  • Mogorosi project spices up Cape Town jazz fest line-up

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  • SA’s Michelin man will never again mistake ‘fowl’ for ‘breast’ in French
  • Walter Sisulu square in Soweto lacks the pulling power of Vilakazi Street

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  • Carpooling effective for congestion and even employee productivity

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  • US author Pat Conroy dead at 70
  • BOOK REVIEW: The Boy Who Could Change the World

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  • Gordhan should broaden sugar tax to junk food
  • Women trapped between scourge and perception

  Motoring

  • CONCEPT MODELS: BMW looking to the next 100 years
  • TECHNOLOGY: Mercedes E-Class — supreme hi-tech finesse
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  Moore was wrong, says Novak Djokovic — but men should get more money

  World No1 says Raymond Moore was wrong to say men carried tennis, and he respects women players

  Rugby

  • Aerial threat worries Fleck
  • Loftus battle stations for Bulls and Sharks

  soccer

  • Draw is not enough to keep Kaizer Chiefs in continental contention
  • Mbalula still insists $10m was not a Fifa vote bribe

  Cricket

  • England’s battered bowlers hope New Delhi pitch will offer respite
  • South Africa win toss, opt to bat against Afghanistan
  • De Kock and Amla capable at top ‘but AB better’
  • A great place to start, says Faf

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  • What the action-packed Australian Grand Prix has shown us
  • Moore was wrong, says Novak Djokovic — but men should get more money
  • Russian athletes test positive for meldonium
  • Rosberg wins dramatic Australian Grand Prix
  • Epic winners carry bikes over line

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