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Burundi’s presidents on a mural.

Assassination pushes Burundi to the brink

Close ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza, widely believed to be behind a spate of arbitrary arrests and killings of opposition members, gunned down.

Malema to gift houses in EFF Mpumalanga opening

Ten things about berets

With his usual flair for style, Julius Malema has dressed the active members of his new political party, Economic Freedom Fighters, in red berets.

A wide-range of topics were touched on at the session titled ‘Fact & fiction: The story is our escort, without it we are blind’.

Literary Festival 2013: The authors

The M&G Literary Festival features a lineup of well-known names from the worlds of media and publishing.

Father Christmas at Maponya Mall.

10 things about…Christmas

December 25 was also traditionally the birthday of the Persian god Mithra, known as the Sun of Righteousness and Lord of Light.

The ANC’s Free State provincial elective conference held in Parys this year was declared unlawful by the Constitutional Court.

Ten things about Mangaung

Mangaung is the municipality in which the city of Bloemfontein is situated; the city is also erroneously referred to as Mangaung.

A man stands in front of a poster advertising the latest James Bond movie Skyfall in New York.

Ten things about James Bond

This year is the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movie franchise, which began with Dr No in 1962.

The United Nations has said that millions in Syria

Ten things about Syria

The Mail & Guardian brings you ten facts you might have not konwn about Syria.

Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro.  ((David Harrison, M&G) )

Ten things about defamation

The Law of South Africa dictionary defines defamation as a statement that "has the effect of injuring a plaintiff’s reputation".

The idea of a social pact was used widely in the European democracies with strong welfare states.

Ten things about social pacts

Social pacts grow from social contract theory, which goes back to the great Enlightenment philosophers of the 1600s and 1700s.

A final presidential debate before next month’s election

Ten things about presidential debates

The US debate tradition began in 1858 when, during the senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln challenged an opponent from the audience.

South Africa’s national anthem is the only one in the world to contain stanzas in five different languages.

Ten things about national anthems

South Africa’s national anthem is the only one in the world to contain stanzas in five different languages. Read more facts about national anthems.

Steve Bantu Biko.

Steve Biko trends on Twitter

While the world was tweeting about the new iPhone on Wednesday, South Africans were sharing thoughts about Steve Biko on Twitter.

With Cosatu’s growth has emerged a new hierarchical structure.

Ten things about Cosatu

Cosatu is the biggest union federation in the country, followed by the Federation of Unions of South Africa with about 400 000 members.

Women are among the most marginalised in our soceity.

Women ignored in tragedy at Marikana

The Marikana saga exposes the injustice raging in our society, writes a group of organisations that work with marginalised people.

Nicolas Maduro Moros

Ten things about the Non-Aligned Movement

We bring you ten facts about the Non-Aligned Movement which was founded by a group of countries that refused to take sides in the Cold War.

Katinka Bezuidenhout believes the new IDC-funded machinery she’s using has increased her business capacity twentyfold.

Smoothing out cosmetics

One of the objectives of the IDC’s Women Entrepreneurial Fund is to encourage the participation of women in traditionally male-dominated industries.

More than 1 000 temporary workers also benefited from Xuma Technologies’ skills development programme.

Forging an entrenched position

Xuma Technologies is a great example of how entrepreneurial spirit has been supported by the IDC’s Women Entrepreneurial Fund (WEF).

People in countries such as Brazil, India and China are two to three times more likely to be entrepreneurs than South Africans.

Fostering entrepreneurship

The quality of studies specifically into entrepreneurial activities present a fairly accurate picture of performance against international benchmarks.

Meryl Mamathuba

Less talk, more action at the IDC

As Women’s Month draws to a close, Meryl Mamathuba of the IDC doesn’t have the luxury of reflecting on the events of the past four weeks.

Women In Science 2012

The Department of Science and Technology hosts the Women in Science Awards to recognise the achievements of SA women scientists and researchers.