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/ 19 January 2007
President Thabo Mbeki this week came under fire when he said that, contrary to popular perceptions “crime was under control”. This week the South African Institute of Race Relations released statistics that showed Mbeki was right in some areas and wrong in others.
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/ 19 January 2007
Turmoil is set to continue in the upper echelons of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) after two senior academics vowed this week to take legal action against the university. This follows the UKZN council’s announcement recently of a tribunal’s findings into allegations of sexual harassment against its two top officials, council chair Vincent Maphai and vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba.
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/ 19 January 2007
Relationships between the African National Congress and the British government, a passionate marketing agent for BAE, go way back. So do political and military relations between South Africa and the United Kingdom, which maintained strong security links with the apartheid state.
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/ 19 January 2007
Pretoria has the necessary ”peace pedigree” and should respond positively to the African Union’s request for soldiers, writes Garth le Pere. ”Somalia’s present interim government, led by President Abdullahi Yusuf, cannot be the answer,” he says. Also read Richard Cornwell’s argument against sending troops to Somalia.
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/ 19 January 2007
As Zimbabwe’s disgruntled doctors and nurses continue their strike over low salaries and poor working conditions, concern is growing about how the prolonged stayaway is affecting HIV-positive patients.
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/ 18 January 2007
The Independent Democrats (ID) named its top team for the City of Cape Town after it opted this week to be part of the seven-party coalition, led by the Democratic Alliance (DA), which runs the city. At a press conference at Parliament on Thursday, it was announced that the party’s candidate for deputy mayor, to serve as number two to DA mayor Helen Zille, is Charlotte Williams.
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/ 18 January 2007
The Zimbabwe government this week ordered 15 of the few white farmers remaining in the country to vacate their properties, despite announcing earlier this month that it was in fact calling back expelled farmers to help resuscitate the collapsed agricultural sector.
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/ 18 January 2007
Parties who have not lodged a notice to appeal against the Gautrain viaduct to be built through Centurion can no longer do so, the Gauteng provincial government said this week. ”People were given time to lodge notice of intention … That period is now over,” said spokesperson for the Gauteng department of agriculture, conservation and environment Sizwe Matshikiza.