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/ 23 January 2007
South African cities due to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup complained on Tuesday of funding shortfalls of millions of rand to build stadiums for the continent’s biggest sporting event. Estimates have swelled due to inflation and exchange-rate fluctuations, officials told a parliamentary sport committee.
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/ 23 January 2007
Alignment to the African National Congress (ANC) will not protect state-funded bodies from scrutiny by the committee charged with reviewing their relevance, its chairperson, Kader Asmal, warned on Tuesday. ”The committee will be objective and non-partisan,” he said, adding that there is not a majority of ANC members on the committee.
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/ 23 January 2007
Springbok utility back Jaco van der Westhuyzen will join the Bulls squad for the upcoming Super 14 season. Van der Westhuyzen has negotiated an early release from his Japanese club, NEC, and has returned to South Africa to help the Bulls with their Super 14 campaign this year.
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/ 23 January 2007
Poverty still exists because the system of world trade has determined that poor countries will not have access to knowledge and technology, the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) said on Tuesday. ”We have poverty all over the … simply because the resources have been used to sideline the majority of the people,” said ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula.
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/ 23 January 2007
The Arts and Culture Ministry has sprung to the defence of senior African National Congress member Tony Yengeni, who is under fire from animal lovers over his ritual stabbing of a bull at the weekend. This is not a matter for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals because it goes much deeper than cruelty to animals, said the ministry on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2007
Dreamgirls, a musical drama inspired by Motown group the Supremes, scored a leading eight Oscar nominations but was omitted from the coveted best-picture and directing categories, organisers said on Tuesday. Have a look at our complete list of Academy Award nominees for 2007.
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/ 23 January 2007
Two foreign construction workers were kidnapped by gunmen on their way to work in Nigeria’s southern oil city Port Harcourt on Tuesday, police said. Rivers State police Commissioner Felix Ogbaudu said the two men were American nationals working for local construction firm Pivot, but oil industry security sources said one of the men was British.
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/ 23 January 2007
Allegations of animal cruelty against fraud convict Tony Yengeni cannot be dealt with by simply using criminal law, the South African Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. ”The commission’s perspective is that one cannot take a simplistic approach to matters like this. It goes to the very heart of how people define themselves,” said chairperson Jody Kollapen.
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/ 23 January 2007
Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride will break his silence about his December car crash on Wednesday. ”The executive mayor of Ekurhuleni, Duma Nkosi, and chief of police Robert McBride will tomorrow [Wednesday] jointly address the media on the latter’s unfortunate car accident,” the spokesperson for the Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2007
The head of the Israeli Defence Ministry Mission to Europe has disappeared from his Paris house, leaving behind notes that indicate he might have been considering suicide, a police source said on Tuesday. The man, named as David Dahan, has not been seen since the weekend, the source said. His car was missing but his cellphone was still at his home.