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/ 22 January 2007
Whoever wants to be the next president of the African National Congress will probably have to go through president Thabo Mbeki, who has been asked by the party’s most influential province to guide the 95-year-old ANC towards its centenary years. Senior members of the Eastern Cape provincial executive committee (PEC) of the ANC are convinced that this “son of the soil will never say no to a mandate by the ANC”.
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/ 22 January 2007
In the past few years, South Africa’s currency has gained recognition as one of a handful of the world’s traded commodity currencies. This term applies in countries where the world commodity price of the country’s commodity exports has an important effect on their real exchange rate.
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/ 22 January 2007
About 25 000 public schools opened their doors to 12-million pupils last week, with apparent lack of drama. But this should not lull South Africans into assuming they are in for a quiet school year. Two time bombs are ticking below the surface: threats by some education bureaucracies against “under performing” schools; and complications that could arise from government moves towards free schooling for poor learners.
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/ 21 January 2007
Organisers of the 2010 Soccer World Cup must not exploit high levels of unemployment in South Africa and build stadiums on the cheap, the biggest international union federation said on Sunday. Ten stadiums in nine different cities are due to either be built or substantially revamped at least a year ahead of the tournament.
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/ 21 January 2007
African governments’ failure to deliver on a 2001 vow to spend 15% of budgets on health has cost the continent 40-million lives, activists including Nobel winners Desmond Tutu and Wangari Maathai said on Sunday. ”The governments are to blame of course, but nothing has been done about it because ordinary people have not demanded it,” Maathai said in a call to action.
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/ 21 January 2007
Saurav Ganguly scored a sparkling 98 on his one-day international return after a 16-month absence to help India to a 14-run victory over West Indies on Sunday. The 34-year-old opener struck 11 fours and three sixes to lead the hosts to a commanding total of 338 for three, enjoying good partnerships with Gautam Gambhir (69) and Sachin Tendulkar (31) after they were put in to bat
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/ 21 January 2007
All-rounder Jacques Kallis compiled a patient innings to nudge South Africa into the lead on the third day of the first Test against Pakistan on Sunday. Kallis was 84 not out at lunch, which South Africa reached on 191 for four in their second innings — a lead of 50 runs.
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/ 21 January 2007
France’s Stephane Peterhansel, driving a Mitsubishi, and compatriot Cyril Despres, riding a KTM, were crowned champions of the 2007 Dakar Rally after the 15th and final stage in Dakar on Sunday. It was Peterhansel’s third Dakar Rally car crown and ninth overall while for Despres this represented a second title after winning the 2005 edition.
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/ 21 January 2007
A leading Roman Catholic rights group in Zimbabwe urged the government on Sunday to address the grievances of striking state doctors, saying their weeks-old action was hurting poor patients. ”The strike by junior doctors has caused untold human suffering and loss of life to many,” the Catholic commission.
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/ 21 January 2007
The Titans duly won their SuperSport match against the Cape Cobras, which was played at Willowmoore Park, by 10 wickets. Cobras who were asked to follow-on, started the day on 131 for one. A second wicket partnership of 68 runs added a touch of respectability, but when Alfonso Thomas claimed the wicket of Henry Davids, the writing was on the wall