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/ 27 February 2006
R&B sensation Tsakani "TK" Mhinga was on Monday found dead in a Bryanston hotel, northern Johannesburg, police said. "We didn’t find any physical injuries on her body, but we will wait for the post-mortem report and the medical report" to establish the cause of death, a police spokesperson told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i>.
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/ 27 February 2006
The death toll from a suspected cholera outbreak in southern Sudan has risen to 89 amid continued efforts to stem the epidemic, the World Health Organisation said in a statement on Monday. The United Nations health agency said 4 906 cases of acute watery diarrhoea were reported, 89 of them fatal, over the past month.
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/ 27 February 2006
The political party formed to keep Matatiele in KwaZulu-Natal, the African Independent Congress, says it is disappointed in the Constitutional Court’s decision not to make a ruling on the demarcation issue before polling day on Wednesday. The court ruled that the election will go ahead as planned in the municipality.
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/ 27 February 2006
Hundreds of squatters took to the streets of Durban over poor housing on Monday after the Durban High Court overruled a council decision not to allow the protest. Police stopped the marchers earlier in the day, claiming their action was illegal. However, they were allowed to proceed to the Durban City Hall.
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The Pretoria High Court on Monday gave the go-ahead for the election to take place in Khutsong. The court turned down an application by a group calling itself the Merafong community to have the election postponed pending an application to contest the constitutionality of the municipality’s redemarcation.
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/ 27 February 2006
The South African economy under the stewardship of Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has been declared Newsmaker 2005 of the Johannesburg Press Club. The club shares President Thabo Mbeki’s view that South Africa has entered its ”age of hope”, the club’s chairperson, Hopewell Radebe, said on Monday,
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Wednesday’s municipal election will prove that about 250Â 000 voters who supported the now-defunct New National Party in 2004 did not follow Marthinus van Schalkwyk into the African National Congress, Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder said on Monday.
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/ 27 February 2006
The Democratic Alliance has renewed its call on President Thabo Mbeki to appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into certain aspects of the arms deal. The party has written to Mbeki ”in an attempt to jog his memory” of an alleged meeting he had with French arms company Thomson-CSF senior executives when he was deputy president.
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/ 27 February 2006
Lawyers of the two factions of Zimbabwe’s splintered opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party are locked up in a tug of war over rights to the MDC brand, in what appears a preliminary to a long and damaging legal wrangle over the party’s name, symbol and assets.
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/ 27 February 2006
The price of bread rose by more than 30% as stores in Zimbabwe opened for business on Monday, the latest blow to consumers in the country’s teetering economy. A regular loaf went up to Z 000 (about R3,68), from the government-controlled price of Z 000 (about R2,70).