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Gigaba: State battles to compete

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Higher salary packages in the private sector are putting pressure on state-owned enterprises, says Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba.

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Municipalities owe water boards R1.1bn

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Municipalities owe South Africa's water boards R1.1bn, Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has told Parliament.

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The officials who recovered 10 rhino horns and R3.5m in cash in a Bedfordview raid needed a "big pat on the back", Ekurhuleni Community Safety MMC Mthuthuzeli Siboza.

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SECURITY: A Sri Lankan soldier stands guard on the seaside in Colombo, where War Heroes Week with be celebrated with a military parade. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi, AFP)

SECURITY: A Sri Lankan soldier stands guard on the seaside in Colombo, where War Heroes Week with be celebrated with a military parade. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi, AFP)
LIFTED: New mobile harbour cranes have arrived at the Port of Durban to boost the container handling capacity of the Durban RORO and Maydon Wharf Terminal. (Roy Reed)
DIPLOMATIC: Guinea-Bissau's interim President Raimundo Pereira talks with Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho at the Sao Bento palace in Lisbon. (Francisco Seco, AP)
LOVE: A gay couple kisses during a march against homophobia outside Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. (Eraldo Peres, AP)
ANGRY: Pakistani Shi’ite Muslim protestors, burn representations of US and Israeli flags, during an anti-Israel rally in Karachi. (Shakil Adil, AP)
SMILE: Charlize Theron takes a picture of herself with an unidentified fan during a photo call for Snow White And The Huntsman in Berlin, Germany. (Michael Sohn, AP)
ON GUARD: A hawker and his Harris falcon, Tara, used to scare pigeons together with eight other falcons at the Roland-Garros tennis stadium in Paris. (Jacques Demarthon, AFP)
FLYING: Russia's Natalia Goncharova competes in the women's 10m platform diving preliminary at the European swimming championships in Eindhoven, in The Netherlands. (John Thys, AFP)
DISTRAUGHT: In Mumbai, India, a relative pays her last respects before a funeral for some of the 15 people who died in a plane crash in Nepal. (Punit Paranjp, AFP)
COVERED: A Palestinian demonstrator covers his face after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli troops, not seen, during clashes outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Bernat Armangue, AP)
UNHAPPY: Communication Workers Union members demonstrate outside Cosatu House in Johannesburg. (Werner Beukes, Sapa)
DESTROYED: A Bangladeshi firefighter is seen after a fire broke out in a slum in Dhaka, destroying over a thousand homes. (Munir uz Zaman, AFP)

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