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Johannesburg’s preparations for the 2010 Soccer World Cup are on time and within budget, mayor Amos Masondo said on Wednesday. ”Let me assure you that our plans and preparations are on track, on time and within budget,” he told a sod-turning ceremony at the FNB Stadium.
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/ 17 January 2007
South Africa are expecting a stronger challenge from Pakistan in the second Test starting at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Star batsman Mohammad Yousuf will be back in the team after missing Pakistan’s seven-wicket defeat in the first Test at Centurion because his wife was having a baby.
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/ 17 January 2007
Teenagers do not deliberately fall pregnant, families do not ”farm” children and sick people do not refuse to take medicine just to get social grants, the Department of Social Development said on Wednesday. ”The provision of social assistance by the state does not promote teenage pregnancies and other alleged perverse incentives,” it said.
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/ 17 January 2007
Holiday season traffic deaths and accidents dropped by less than 5% compared with a year ago, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Wednesday. Radebe issued his report on the December 1 to January 10 holiday season traffic at Atteridgeville in Gauteng. The number of fatal accidents dropped by 59 from 1 428 to 1 369 compared with the same time a year ago.
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/ 17 January 2007
A Limpopo farmer has been fined R10 000 or two-and-a-half years’ in prison for shooting dead a boy he mistook for a dog, media reports said on Wednesday. Found guilty of culpable homicide, Marchel Nel (39) was fined R20 000 or five years’ in prison by the Thabazimbi Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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/ 17 January 2007
Nigeria’s proscriptive broadcast policy means that Africa’s most populous country has only one community radio station. By contrast, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has 192. These are some of the facts in what is probably the most comprehensive study done to date of the African media.
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/ 17 January 2007
Gauteng provincial minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia said on Wednesday he is concerned about allegations that police abused their power by threatening and intimidating a prostitute and a photographer in Pretoria. ”In a democratic society everyone is entitled to humane and lawful treatment by the police,” Cachalia said.
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/ 17 January 2007
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have rejected south Sudanese Vice-President Riek Machar as chief mediator at talks to end one of Africa’s longest wars. LRA second-in-command Vincent Otti said the rebels would permanently abandon talks with Uganda’s government in Juba if an alternative venue cannot be found.
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/ 17 January 2007
South Africa defended on Wednesday its decision to vote against a United States-led United Nations Security Council resolution urging democratic reform in Burma, saying the measure went beyond the council’s mandate. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said South Africa would continue to fight for democracy, human rights and freedom in Burma.
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/ 17 January 2007
Telkom came under fire this week after international news agency Reuters criticised the company for high telecommunications prices and low-quality bandwidth. Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer told <i>Business Day</i> newspaper that while his company had been expanding in countries such as India, he was reluctant to do the same thing in South Africa.