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 | Nicola Sulter and Ramon Pereira Interestingly, the City of Johannesburg Municipality (COJ), has categorised refuse removal as a tax levied against the property rather than as a service charge similar to charges in respect of water and electricity. Read more >>
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 | Since the appointment of Advocate Neville Melville as the Consumer Goods and Services Ombudsman in June 2013, the office has received 4821 complaints in first nine months, of which it has closed 71% or 3049 of these cases. Read more >>
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 | Evan Pickworth The Insurance Laws Amendment Bill‚ which was tabled nearly a year ago but has never been passed‚ was effectively binned by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan‚ who aims to include important changes to the insurance sector in new "twin peaks" legislation. Read more >>
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 | NEWSWATCH: The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) said on Saturday that the POIB must have a public interest defence clause, reports BD Live. And Sunday Times reports a row after two school buses were rebranded in ANC colours. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Microsoft on Thursday, 1 May, released a patch for a perilous hole in its Internet Explorer browser that hackers could slip through to invade computers. Read more >>
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 | Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has announced that Sbu Gule, chairman of Norton Rose Fulbright in South Africa, has been appointed as global chairman, effective 1 May 2014. Read more >>
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 | MANILA, PHILLIPPINES - Dozens of people have been arrested in the Philippines in a multinational crackdown on the exploding global menace of Internet "sextortion", Interpol and local police said. Read more >>
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Even as Europe powered up its most ambitious ever cyber-security exercise this month, doubts were being raised over whether the continent's patchwork of online police was right for the job. Read more >>
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 | SAN JOSE, USA: - Apple and Samsung made their final pitches to jurors earlier this week in a big-money smartphone patent trial playing out in the heart of Silicon Valley. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Online company eBay agreed to pay US$3.75m to settle allegations it colluded with other Silicon Valley technology firms not to "poach" each other's employees, officials said on Thursday, 1 May. Read more >>
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 | Traffic officers targeted sober drivers on a major KwaZulu-Natal highway last week. Instead of handing out fines and warnings, cheerful officers dished out free toll passes and R100 grocery vouchers. Surprised but happy motorists drove off without complaint. Read more >>
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 | The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed Golden Miles Bhudu's arrest at the High Court in Pretoria earlier this week. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma says unions in the mining sector should use their rights responsibly and put the country first by protecting the economy and safeguarding jobs. Read more >>
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 | As the 7 May poll approaches, President Jacob Zuma has authorised the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to maintain law and order over the election period as well as during the inauguration of the President-elect. Read more >>
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