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/ 14 January 2007
A senior official who was suspended for alleged wrongdoing by the Eastern Cape department of social development has not been hired to oversee social-grant operations in that province, said the national Department of Social Development on Saturday. It said reports on Thursday that the man had been hired were incorrect.
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/ 14 January 2007
While the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 95th birthday on Saturday, secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe was called in to intervene in a stand-off between the ANC Youth League’s national office and its Eastern Cape branch, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported.
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/ 14 January 2007
Somali lawmakers have voted to authorise the government to declare martial law, giving support to the country’s internationally recognised leaders in their struggle to assert their authority over an Islamic movement that until recently controlled much of southern Somalia.
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/ 14 January 2007
In a few weeks’ time, coroner Richard McElrea, based in Christchurch, New Zealand, will produce a report that may resolve one of the strangest, and most baffling, deaths in the southern hemisphere: the poisoning of astrophysicist Rodney Marks at the South Pole.
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/ 14 January 2007
Squatting, for so long a feature of cities proud of their "ultra-tolerant" reputation, is one of several key symbols of urban Dutch liberalism to come under attack in recent years. "It is all a symptom of a general movement back towards law and order in Dutch society and politics," said a respected Dutch commentator.
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/ 13 January 2007
Having faced bankruptcy allegations in recent weeks in the law courts, hapless Amazulu looked equally bankrupt while going down 4-0 against Mamelodi Sundowns in one of the most one-sided Premier Soccer League (PSL) games of the season at the Super Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
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/ 13 January 2007
The first Castle Lager Test between South Africa and Pakistan was evenly poised at close of play on the third day, with Pakistan on 103 for two in their second innings, trailing South Africa by just one run. Ashwell Prince and Herschelle Gibbs resumed South Africa’s first innings on the overnight total of 254 for four.
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/ 13 January 2007
The last non-executive state president from the apartheid era, Marais Viljoen, was buried on Saturday with the full honours reserved for South African statesmen. At a funeral service in Pretoria preceding a private burial ceremony, his daughter Elna Meijers described him as a man for all seasons who lived his life with passion.
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/ 13 January 2007
Poverty eradication is the African National Congress’s (ANC) central task in the run-up to the 2012 general election, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. Mbeki, the party leader, was addressing high-profile ANC members and thousands of supporters at the ANC’s 95th birthday celebrations at the @lantic Stadium in Witbank.
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/ 13 January 2007
African National Congress (ANC) president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, showed a united front by dancing together in Witbank on Saturday. The pair danced on stage for a few minutes to the sounds of gospel singer Solly Mholo, shortly before Mbeki’s address at about noon at the party’s 95th birthday rally.