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/ 19 February 2007
A Metrobus driver was shot and killed while driving in Mooi Street in Faraday on Monday morning, Johannesburg emergency services said. Spokesperson Chief Superintendent Malcolm Midgley said the man lost control of the bus after he was shot at about 6.30am. ”The bus overturned and landed on the embankment.” Rescuers used the Jaws of Life to remove the man’s body.
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/ 19 February 2007
Ekurhuleni metro police have pleaded that self-defence was behind their shooting of live ammunition at an illegal drag race in Duduza where a teenager died on Sunday afternoon. However, the family of Sipho Twala is demanding justice, claiming the metro police used excessive force.
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/ 19 February 2007
Truman Prince is to be allowed to appeal against his dismissal from the post of Beaufort West’s municipal manager, the Democratic Alliance (DA) confirmed on Monday. It was reacting to an African National Congress statement saying that the Central Karoo council had voted for the move despite a legal opinion that ”clearly” stated Prince had no right to a challenge.
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/ 19 February 2007
Bombs detonated across central Iraq on Monday, adding 40 more bloodied corpses to the grim toll of Iraqi dead as rebel groups mount a savage challenge to the latest United States and Iraqi security plan. The attacks will in the main be blamed on Sunni insurgents and appear to have been timed to embarrass US and Iraqi commanders.
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/ 19 February 2007
Gauteng has more jobs and is becoming a better place to live, Premier Mbhazima Shilowa told the opening of the provincial legislature on Monday. Shilowa promised more action on crime and African education, more antiretrovirals and a fast clean-up of the collapsed driver’s-licence testing system.
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/ 19 February 2007
Globalisation has left world employment mostly intact, despite gloomy economic forecasts predicting hefty job losses, according to a study published on Monday. The study challenges the ”race-to-the-bottom view” that growing world trade would bring in terms of wages and the quality of employment.
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/ 19 February 2007
Malawi, which has the highest deforestation rate in Southern Africa, has roped in its army to save the trees, environmental officials said on Monday. The Natural Resources Ministry over the weekend inked a deal with the Malawi army for soldiers to be deployed to protect 16 of the country’s prime forest reserves and step up reforestation.
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/ 19 February 2007
Freedom of expression is central to the Constitutional Court appeal against a Durban schoolgirl’s right to wear a nose stud to school, the Freedom of Expression Institute said on Monday. The appeal is against a KwaZulu-Natal high court decision in favour of Sunali Pillay’s wearing of a nose stud to school.
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/ 19 February 2007
Jackie Maarohanye, the embattled principal of the Ithuteng Trust school in Kliptown, was taken to hospital after collapsing following her appearance in the Protea Magistrate’s Court in Soweto, media reports said on Monday. She was allegedly part of a group that held a reporter and driver from the Sowetan newspaper hostage at the weekend.
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/ 19 February 2007
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai vowed on Monday to step up the campaign to topple President Robert Mugabe despite a riot-police crackdown that prevented him from holding a major weekend rally. Scores were hurt and about 130 arrested on Sunday as security services used tear gas to break up a gathering of Movement for Democratic Change supporters.