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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thint are expected to go to battle with the National Prosecuting Authority on Friday over the release of documents from Mauritius. The documents pertain to meetings between Zuma, his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik and Thint.
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/ 8 February 2007
Janny Staeck popped open bottle after bottle of champagne in the upper-deck galley of business class and passed round sausage rolls and salmon puffs. "I had tears in my eyes when we took off; this is airplane history," said the 27-year-old Lufthansa flight attendant.
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/ 8 February 2007
Energy provision in South Africa is in a cauldron. Internationally, 2 500 of the world’s leading climate scientists have found in a United Nations study that climate change is being fuelled by carbon emissions and that drastic cuts are necessary to reduce the chances of catastrophic weather patterns.
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/ 8 February 2007
There has never been a better time for Somalia’s leaders to use the opportunity given to them by recent events and establish the lasting peace that has eluded them for the past 16 years. The crushing defeat of forces loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts by the army of Somalia’s transitional federal government has paved the way for the establishment of Somalia’s first functioning central government.
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/ 8 February 2007
Jacob Zuma’s camp in KwaZulu-Natal has been hit by ructions as key backers of the ANC’s deputy president jostle for positions in any future Zuma government. Political ambitions came to the fore last month after the Durban regional leadership succeeded in forcing eThekwini municipality to rename the planned R1,6-billion King Senzangakhona soccer stadium after the late ANC stalwart Moses Mabhida.
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A year after the launch of Asgisa, the government’s blueprint to achieve 6% growth by 2014, the panel of international economists commissioned by the national treasury to advise on the initiative has warned that it could fail if “serious macro inconsistencies” in the plan are not addressed.
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/ 8 February 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) expects 10 000 people to attend party stalwart Adelaide Tambo’s funeral on Saturday where both former president Nelson Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki will address mourners. Mandela will deliver a message of condolence and Mbeki will give the funeral speech at the Wattville Stadium in Ekurheleni.
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/ 7 February 2007
A meningitis epidemic has killed 76 people in eight Sudanese states since the end of 2006, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Meningitis is an often fatal airborne infection transmitted through sneezing and coughing that infects the brain and spinal cord. Its symptoms include fever, rashes and vomiting.
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One of the travel agents involved in the multimillion-rand parliamentary travel-voucher scam was given a suspended sentence and fined R20 000 by the Cape High Court on Wednesday, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. Nazli Lackay pleaded guilty to defrauding Parliament of close to R3-million.
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/ 7 February 2007
Metrobus denies that eight high school children were kicked off a bus in Johannesburg by a racist driver, the company’s managing director said on Wednesday. According to a newspaper report, school children, aged between 14 and 17, said a black bus driver swore at them and kicked them off the bus because they were white.