
Stanley Baxter: Scottish comedian with a gift for sketches, mimicry and song
The actor and impressionist, known for comic parodies and his love of dressing up, was one of the biggest stars of the 1970s and 1980s.
SUNDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2025, 16:01

The actor and impressionist, known for comic parodies and his love of dressing up, was one of the biggest stars of the 1970s and 1980s.
Bulgarian lawmakers formally approved on Friday the resignation of the country’s minority government, a day after it b
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Universal Health Coverage Day highlights the global need for accessible healthcare, with this year’s theme focusing on unaffordable health costs, which resonate strongly in SA amid a cost-of-living crisis.
Iraq’s former president Barham Salih has been chosen as the next High Commissioner for Refugees for the United Nations, a letter showed on Friday, breaking with a tradition of appointing leaders from major donor countries.
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The Border Management Authority (BMA) has intercepted 30 illegal foreign nationals at O.R. Tambo International Airport, preventing them from entering the country.
The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has delivered a crushing blow to the Information Regulator’s bid to block the publication of matric results, upholding an appeal by the Department of Basic Education, and dismissing the regulator’s key arguments as “fanciful” and likening their approach to “a poorly constructed thought experiment”.

Baxter, who was born in Glasgow, was one of the biggest stars on British television for several decades.
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Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday that Moscow has not seen revised US proposals made after the most recent talks with Ukraine, but that it may not like parts of them.

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The public is cautioned not to do business with a woman who was running a brokerage with fraudulent accreditation certificates.

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The ANC’s chief whip and head of elections, Mdumiseni Ntuli, sat down with Daily Maverick to discuss the ANC potentially becoming a rural party, the ANC succession race and maintaining its 40% in the next elections.

The Border Management Authority intercepted two suspected human-trafficking operations at OR Tambo International Airport, involving 14 Ethiopian and 16 Bangladeshi men.