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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.

Sangweni, Manyisa withdrawn from Bafana squad

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Pretoria - The Orlando Pirates duo of Oupa Manyisa and defender Siyabonga Sangweni have been withdrawn from the Bafana Bafana squad to face Zambia in the Nelson Mandela Challenge on Wednesday at Soccer City.

Minister Pandor to speak at WISE

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Pretoria - Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor, is expected to deliver a paper under the theme "Collaborating for Change" at the fourth World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar.

Revamped mobile clinics unveiled in KZN

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Pretoria - KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has unveiled the first batch of revamped state-of-the-art mobile clinics in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday.

Govt launches PSM Magazine

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Johannesburg - Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Obed Bapela last night urged government communicators to use all platforms available to them to ensure government's message reached every citizen in the country.