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/ 20 February 2007
The People’s Budget Campaign coalition on Tuesday repeated its call for a basic income grant for all South Africans. ”Although the proposed R100 is too little, it can make a difference to the dignity of the people,” said South African Council of Churches general secretary Eddie Makue.
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/ 20 February 2007
Gauteng provincial minister of transport Ignatius Jacobs has given his department six weeks to clear the backlog in driving-licence examinations. This would be followed by increasing automation at all centres, Jacobs told a media briefing on Tuesday to elaborate on Premier Mbhazima Shilowa’s state of the province address.
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/ 20 February 2007
The state has sought to counter outrage that met a recent court ruling on a Limpopo farmer who shot dead an 11-year-old boy he mistook for a dog. ”It cannot be argued that the conviction of culpable homicide is incorrect, having read the statement of the witnesses,” the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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/ 20 February 2007
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk dealt canned lion hunting a death blow on Tuesday by outlawing the hunting of captive-bred large predators within two years of their release on a property for the purpose of hunting. He told journalists in Cape Town he intends ”putting an end, once and for all, to the reprehensible practice of canned hunting”.
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/ 20 February 2007
More than 297Â 000 people will benefit from housing projects in Gauteng in the next financial year, provincial minister of housing Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday. The 58Â 552 houses to be built will include give-away, financed and rental houses, Mokonyane said in elaborating on Premier Mbhazima Shilowa’s state of the province address.
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/ 20 February 2007
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will hold talks with Darfur rebels in Libya on Tuesday to try to advance peace efforts in the western Sudanese region. The talks will also be attended by Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and United Nations and African Union envoys.
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/ 20 February 2007
Police called to a Long Island man’s house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set. The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to have died of natural causes.
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/ 20 February 2007
A new radio station targeting both Israeli and Palestinians will take to the airwaves this week based on a format that pioneered debate in apartheid-era South Africa. From Wednesday, 93.6 RAM FM will broadcast 20 news bulletins a day from studios in Jerusalem and the West Bank to a target audience of half a million people.
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/ 20 February 2007
The Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday said that Donald Rumsfeld would be remembered as ”one of the worst secretaries of defence in history”. McCain’s comments came as he hit out at ”mismanagement” of the Iraq war.
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/ 20 February 2007
The Department of Home Affairs has denied claims by a gay couple from Witpoortjie, Johannesburg, that officials at the Roodepoort office refused to marry them because of their sexual orientation. Spokesperson Mantshele Tau said on Tuesday that claims by Marius Olivier and Tommy Meyer were ”baseless”.