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/ 19 January 2006
South Africa could have more women than men serving as metropolitan mayors after the local government elections, the African National Congress said on Thursday. Fifty percent of the ANC’s public representatives in local government have to be women, said party secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe.
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/ 28 November 2005
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Jacob Zuma should still become president of the African National Congress, the ANC Youth League said on Monday. This follows statements by the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions that they had never said they wanted Zuma to be the president of the ANC.
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/ 24 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has denied ever saying it wanted Jacob Zuma to be the next president of the African National Congress. "It’s a figment of the imagination," Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told reporters in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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/ 23 November 2005
A campaign to stop controversial German vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath from conducting ”illegal” HIV trials in South Africa will be stepped up, three organisations said on Wednesday. ”He has got to be stopped,” Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha said.
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/ 9 November 2005
An agreement to improve working conditions of South African Airways (SAA) pilots, cabin crew and ground staff was announced in Johannesburg on Wednesday. ”This reinforces the confidence we have in the ability of our people,” SAA chief executive Khaya Ngqula told reporters.
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/ 28 October 2005
One of the world’s most popular men, Nelson Mandela, has been immortalised in a comic-book series covering his life.
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/ 25 October 2005
Undertakers are not concerned about contracting HIV from corpses, they said on Tuesday. ”It’s a load of hogwash. If they take the right precautions, the chance [of contracting HIV] is a big, round nought,” said Geoffrey Gilfillan, an operations manager for an undertakers firm.
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/ 25 October 2005
A R1,1-billion investment in the Coega industrial development zone — in the form of a chlorine refinery project and desalination plant — was announced on Tuesday. Straits Chemicals, a joint South-East Asian and South African company, will run the project in the zone in the Port Elizabeth area.
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/ 13 September 2005
Efforts are under way to improve the sewage system in Delmas in a bid to prevent a repeat of the recent typhoid outbreak, Mpumalanga authorities said on Tuesday. The Democratic Alliance said a party councillor warned the Delmas municipality a few years ago that the municipality should be connected to Rand Water to allow for safe water.
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/ 6 September 2005
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The African National Congress’s alliance partners have not been officially informed that the ANC has agreed in principle to a proposed commission of inquiry into claims of a plot against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and SA Communist Party said on Tuesday they only expected to be told about the ANC’s stance at the next alliance meeting.