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/ 8 February 2007
South African Airways (SAA) flights to the United States will operate via Ilha do Sal in Cape Verde due to a strike action at the Dakar airport in Senegal, SAA said on Thursday. Spokesperson Jacqui O’Sullivan said workers at the airport, who were not SAA employees, were on strike for various benefit payments.
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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.
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/ 8 February 2007
Judgement is to be delivered at noon on Friday in the Cape High Court trial of former LeisureNet chief executives Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell. The two men face charges of fraud, money laundering and contraventions of the Income Tax Act and Companies Act. LeisureNet was liquidated in 2000 with liabilities of R1,2-billion and assets of only R302-million.
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/ 8 February 2007
The man accused of killing the mother-in-law of celebrity Soli Philander will be sentenced on Friday. Simon Matshwane (20) will hear his fate in the Parys Magistrate’s Court on Friday, said Philander’s wife, Toni, who will attend the sentencing with her family.
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/ 8 February 2007
Cholera is stalking the victims of heavy flooding in Southern Africa, which has claimed nearly 150 lives since the beginning of the year, reports said on Thursday. Nearly 4 000 cholera cases have been reported since January in Angola, where Oxfam reported at least 114 people dead in the wake of serious flooding.
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/ 8 February 2007
Malawi’s Vice-President, Cassim Chilumpha, on Thursday refused for a second time to enter a plea to charges of plotting to kill President Bingu wa Mutharika through South African hit men. Lawyers representing Chilumpha told the Malawi High Court that the charge sheet by the state was defective and should not be admitted in court.
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/ 8 February 2007
South Africa’s Reserve Bank has for some time raised the alarm about the inflationary risks posed by a boom in credit. But some analysts say increasing borrowing by businesses may bode well for the economy and may even help the country tackle its huge unemployment rate, provided the money is ploughed into much-needed investment in local industries.
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/ 8 February 2007
South Africa has stopped the import of live poultry and poultry products from the United Kingdom after an outbreak of bird flu in that country. ”An outbreak of highly pathogenic notifiable avian influenza [bird flu], caused by the H5N1 subtype of the virus has killed 1 500 turkeys on a farm in Suffolk, United Kingdom.
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/ 8 February 2007
Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana has denied intending to accuse farmers of treating their workers inhumanely, AgriSA said on Thursday. ”In a joint meeting … she clearly stated that it was never her intention to accuse farmers of not treating workers properly,” said AgriSA president Lourie Bosman.
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/ 8 February 2007
A defence lawyer for two of the eight men allegedly involved in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea hinted on Thursday that the South African government might have given its permission for the attempt. Defence lawyer Alwyn Griebenow was cross-examining state witness Johannes Smit in the Pretoria Regional Court.