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/ 13 February 2007
From the doorway, it looked as though Inge Lotz was asleep, lying motionless with her brown hair tumbled over the arm of the couch. It was only from closer that the full and bloody horror of what had happened to the 22-year-old Stellenbosch student became apparent.
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/ 30 January 2007
The South African National Defence Force could be called on to help expand South Africa’s antiretroviral-treatment programme, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka suggested on Tuesday. There is ”a role” for the force in helping roll out treatment because it is such a labour-intensive activity, she told a moral-regeneration conference in Cape Town.
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/ 24 January 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang should not be given the ”sweeping” powers set out in proposed changes to the tobacco-control law, British American Tobacco (BAT) argued on Wednesday. David Crow, managing director of BAT South Africa, was speaking on the second day of public hearings on the draft legislation by Parliament’s health portfolio committee.
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/ 22 December 2006
Legal and technical experts from the Western Cape provincial government and the City of Cape Town met on Thursday to discuss a way forward on the city’s proposed 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium. Mayor Helen Zille said the experts were seeking a way to ”resolve the development approvals” required for the construction and would continue their work on Friday.
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/ 21 December 2006
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille on Wednesday evening rejected a claim by Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool that the city had committed a major procedural blunder over the proposed Green Point 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium. An angry Rasool called on Zille to summon an urgent council meeting to rectify what he said was an error threatening the already-fragile construction timetable.
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/ 3 December 2006
Former Eastern Cape education minister Stone Sizani was on Sunday named as the new chairperson of the African National Congress in the province. He immediately acknowledged he faced a ”huge task” in overcoming the factionalism and divisions that have threatened to cripple the organisation.
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/ 1 December 2006
Problems with delegate registration on Friday caused major hold-ups at the African National Congress’s (ANC) Eastern Cape provincial conference in Alice. Registration, which involves creating a photo identity card for each of the more than 1Â 700 voting delegates, was supposed to have been completed before the opening session on Thursday night.
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/ 1 December 2006
The Cabinet should take the 2010 Soccer World Cup semifinal away from Cape Town if residents go to court to block the proposed Green Point Stadium development, politicians overseeing sport have recommended. Earlier this week, mayor Helen Zille had warned that the city could lose the semifinal to Johannesburg.
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/ 24 November 2006
A Johannesburg woman told delegates to an international conference at the University of Cape Town on Thursday how she was robbed of her car last month by ”humane” hijackers — one of whom even gave her advice on how to avoid being hijacked again in future.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africans should not be surprised at the anger and brutality that was sweeping the streets when they continued to refuse to acknowledge the socio-economic inequalities in the country, Dr Mamphela Ramphele said on Thursday. Ramphele was speaking in Cape Town at a conference reflecting on the work of the former Truth and Reconciliation Commission.