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/ 2 February 2007
Francis Adelaide Tambo will be laid to rest in Benoni on February 10, the African National Congress (ANC) announced on Friday. At a press briefing, ANC deputy secretary general Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele said a week of prayer and memorial services in Cape Town and Johannesburg will precede the funeral next Saturday.
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/ 2 February 2007
The National Civil Safety and Security Action (Nacissa) has asked how government and the ruling party can promote a better life for all if crime is out of control. "We are not against strategies that the government has put in place; we are here to assist," Nacissa chief executive Ockie van der Schyf said in Pretoria on Friday.
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/ 2 February 2007
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) is shocked by the announcement that the South African Police Service (SAPS) intends to halve the number of white police officers. ACDP leader Reverend Kenneth Meshoe said the SAPS’s intention was to change the white to black ratio from 1:5 to 1:10 over the next three years.
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/ 2 February 2007
Calls by Namibia’s indigenous San people for their rights to ancestral land to be upheld were given clout by a report released on Friday calling for reforms to end their marginalisation. The report by the Legal Assistance Centre highlights the San’s dispossession of land and their status as the most marginalised ethnic group in the country.
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/ 2 February 2007
Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed on Friday not to quit before British police finished a political funding investigation, despite growing alarm in his Labour party over the damage the probe is inflicting on the government. Blair, questioned by police for a second time about the case last Friday, voiced hope the investigation would end soon.
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/ 2 February 2007
The international scientific report on climate change released on Friday is a ”clarion call” to world leaders for immediate action, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said. He was reacting to the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which said global warming was ”unequivocal”, and ”very likely” man-made.
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/ 2 February 2007
England spectacularly revived hopes of playing in the triangular one-day series finals with their first breakthrough tour win over Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. The embattled tourists put aside unrelenting months of heavy defeats in the five Ashes Tests, the 20-20 international and the one-day series to crush the Australians by 92 runs.
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/ 2 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki might represent all South Africans, but only 2% of the population endorses his views on crime, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday. Writing in his weekly letter, Leon said 98% of South Africans believe the president’s approach and attitude towards crime are wrong.
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/ 2 February 2007
The recent African Union summit confirmed that the African continent remains united "in its determination" to pursue the objectives fundamental to the African renaissance, including accelerating socio-economic development, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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/ 2 February 2007
Harmony Gold, the third largest producer of South African gold, generated headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the quarter to end December of 44 cents compared to 66 cents in the June quarter as costs increased and less gold was produced.