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/ 9 February 2007
“You whites will never understand anything about living in the sand in a hok big enough for a dog. And you will never understand crime. What’s crime? Am I a criminal because I eat with robbed money? I don’t want to know how my two sons earn the R20, R30 or R100 they bring home most evenings.
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/ 9 February 2007
First National Bank’s abortive attempt to run a hastily conceived anti-crime campaign has placed crime firmly on the public agenda and led to one of the biggest public splits in the business community in the post-apartheid era. FNB had planned to place 1,5-million posters in national newspapers, writes Jocelyn Newmarch.
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/ 9 February 2007
Details emerging from the German corruption probe into defence and steel conglomerate ThyssenKrupp have thrown dramatic new light on two men named in the very first allegations concerning the South African arms deal. One is Shamin “Chippy” Shaik, former chief of acquisitions for the defence department.
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/ 8 February 2007
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday she is cautiously optimistic that it may be possible to begin carrying out a September 2005 agreement on ending North Korea’s nuclear programs. ”I am cautiously optimistic that we may be able to begin, again, to implement the joint statement of 2005,” Rice told a congressional panel.
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/ 8 February 2007
A Johannesburg bus driver accused of kicking eight pupils off his bus because they were white is being victimised, the parent of one of the children said on Thursday. ”My child told me that the children were lying. It’s not fair that this poor driver is getting victimised. They [the children] are lying, they demanded to get off the bus,” said Leena Bedworth.
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/ 8 February 2007
Did it just get hotter in here? Maybe it’s the impending Soccer World Cup, but gone are the days when South Africa’s high crime rate was just another story.
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/ 8 February 2007
Police officers on Thursday shot rubber bullets at protesters burning African National Congress T-shirts bearing President Thabo Mbeki’s face during a march to the mayor’s office in Moutse district, a municipality of greater Groblersdal. More than 30 marchers were injured in the scuffle, and 46 protesters were arrested and charged for public violence.
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/ 8 February 2007
South African President Thabo Mbeki has been called on by the Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) parliamentary caucus to demonstrate in his opening of Parliament speech on Friday ”that he has moved decisively away from a position of denial”. In a statement, the IFP said this denial was ”in respect of a number of serious issues confronting all South Africans”.
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/ 8 February 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has rejected reports that all the country’s white farmers will lose their land, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. ”It’s only those white farmers, perhaps, whose farms have been taken. There are others whose farms have not been taken,” he told reporters on Wednesday.