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/ 9 November 2006
The Public Protector has found that a failure by the Social Development Minister, Zola Skweyiya, to disclose an interest-free loan granted by Imvume chief executive officer Sandi Majali to his wife constituted a breach of the executive ethics code but his wife’s acceptance of the loan by itself did not.
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/ 9 November 2006
He was not so much the comrade, but the charou behind the comrade — so there was no Tony Yengeni-esque farewell for businessperson Schabir Shaik as he was driven from the Durban High Court to begin his 15-year jail sentence for corruption at Westville Correctional Facility.
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/ 9 November 2006
A number of South African firms refuse to employ skilled foreigners because of nightmarish immigration bureaucracy, say recruiting agents and immigration experts. This despite an immigration law that the department of home affairs amended last week to help firms combat the domestic skills shortage by employing skilled foreigners.
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/ 9 November 2006
South Africa is expected to play a significant role at the United Nations conference in Nairobi during the next two weeks in charting a future for reducing climate change. About 6Â 000 delegates at the Nairobi talks will discuss ways of extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond its 2012 deadline, as well as looking for ways to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
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/ 9 November 2006
Tony Leon has threatened to launch a libel lawsuit against a British historian who raised questions about his proximity to the apartheid intelligence establishment during his time as a conscript in the defence force. James Sanders, a London-based researcher, has sent Leon draft pages of his forthcoming book, <i>Apartheid’s Friends: The Rise and Fall of South Africa’s Secret Service</i>.
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/ 9 November 2006
"I can’t believe it," Shabir Shaik reportedly exclaimed after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed his petition against conviction on two counts of corruption and one of fraud. "Boom, boom, boom; one, two, three: they didn’t uphold anything. All the lawyers were wrong about what was going to happen."
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/ 9 November 2006
A man wrestles a woman to the ground along Selby Street in downtown Johannesburg. He picks her up like a screaming baby, carries her behind a pillar and rapes her. On the sixth floor of the Carlton Centre, a team of ”incident analysts” sits before a bank of screens, following the events as they unfold.
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/ 9 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday dismissed calls for a commission of inquiry into allegations against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Mbeki wrote a letter to a Freedom Front Plus MP in response to requests by that party last week for an inquiry to investigate allegations that Selebi was involved in criminal activities.
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/ 9 November 2006
A series of concerted bombings ripped through Baghdad markets on Thursday as attacks across Iraq killed at least 27 people and left little doubt that a brief respite in the violence earlier in the week was over. Overnight at least a dozen mortar shells crashed down on Sunni neighbourhoods in the capital.