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Wed Oct 05 2016
 
     
 

PICS: Meltdown at Wits

Police and students fought running battles at Wits with rocks thrown, stun grenades and rubber bullets fired as well as a half-naked protest.

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'Don't mock the boobs that saved us from rubber bullets'

As many tried to body-shame the Wits topless protesters who dominated screens and social media around the country, a lot more came out in their defence.

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Murder suspects free after witness shot dead

Within a week, the State's key witness in a triple murder case was dead, and the four men accused of the murders were free.

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Bogus photographer accused of raping models

Young women say a man pretending to be a photographer for a modelling agency lured them to his Pretoria flat and raped them.

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R550m lawsuit adds to SABC’s financial woes

The Government Employee Pension Fund is taking legal action against the SABC for cancelling a lease agreement.

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'Don't mock breasts that saved us from rubber bullets'

As many tried to body-shame the Wits topless protesters who dominated social media, many others came out in their defence.

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AFRICA  

Kenya lobbies for Amina Mohamed to replace Dlamini-Zuma

Kenya is lobbying for its current Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed to be the next head of the African Union Commission.

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WORLD  

Hurricane Matthew puts over 4 million Haitian children at risk

Unicef has expressed concern that more than four million children could be placed at risk after Hurricane Matthew pummelled already-vulnerable Haiti.

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SPORT  

Let's wrap it up Proteas

Australia are the best team in the world and if you give them a sniff, they’re going to come back hard, says Rilee Rossouw.

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LIFESTYLE  

Beards can give better jawlines

Bushy ‘hipster’ beards may become more popular than ever after scientists revealed that facial hair makes men more attractive to the opposite sex.

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BACKPAGE  

Is too much wasabi a hate crime?

A Japanese sushi chain is being accused of 'wasabi terrorism' after it heaped too much of the pungent root into foreign customers' food.

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BUSINESS  

Post Office reports another loss

The South African Post Office appears to be far from recovery after posting another loss of R1.13bn.

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TONIGHT  

Kim's bodyguard to robbers: You messed with the wrong one!

"We have tips and leads and we will find you," says Pascal Duvier, as it emerges that Kim Kardashian West was tailed for days before the robbery.

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SCITECH  

Nobel physics prize awarded for work on exotic matter

Scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics for work that "revealed the secrets of exotic matter," the prize committee said.

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MOTORING  

Slow BRT roll-out a concern, says MEC

Slow roll-out bus rapid transit systems in Gauteng will stand in the way of revolutionising public transport.

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TRAVEL  

African countries tighten visa requirements

SA business travellers beware: countries on the continent are tightening their requirements for business visas.

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