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/ 27 February 2007
The government’s insistence on securing credible evidence for the listing of terrorists before acting against its citizens was lent support by a group of the country’s Muslim leaders on Tuesday. Last month, the United States listed a Johannesburg dentist and his cousin as suspected terrorists with links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
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/ 27 February 2007
South Africa is joining countries such as Brazil, India and Uganda in implementing open-source software in all government departments — and getting rid of widely used Microsoft Windows desktop programmes that come with expensive licences. Open-source software can be shared by many users without a need for licences.
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/ 22 February 2007
Roofs were blown off, trees uprooted and power lines cut by the force of a tropical cyclone that slammed into coastal regions of already-beleaguered Mozambique on Thursday, officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties after Cyclone Favio made landfall in the Southern African nation.
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/ 22 February 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has been admitted to the intensive-care unit of the Johannesburg General Hospital. According to media reports on Thursday, she is on a ventilator. She was admitted to the same hospital last year for several weeks after reportedly suffering from a lung infection.
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/ 21 February 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s 2007/08 budget tabled in Parliament on Wednesday holds good news for most, with R8,4-billion staying in the pockets of individual taxpayers — who will also benefit from the abolition of retirement-fund tax from March 1.
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/ 20 February 2007
The fate of 300 of Johannesburg’s poorest residents hung in the balance on Tuesday as the City of Johannesburg appeals a court ruling preventing it from evicting them from some of the inner-city’s worst buildings. The Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal heard argument in the city’s appeal.
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/ 15 February 2007
Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour on Thursday ordered that convicted Durban businessman and fraud convict Schabir Shaik be immediately removed from St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban and sent to Westville Prison. Balfour made the decision after viewing medical reports on Shaik’s condition. Shaik has been in Durban’s St Augustine’s Hospital for the past 83 days.
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/ 12 February 2007
Trevor Ncube, CEO of the Mail & Guardian newspaper in Johannesburg, on Monday managed to successfully renew his Zimbabwean passport for another ten years. Ncube was embroiled in court proceedings with the Zimbabwean government when it tried to revoke his citizenship, claiming that he was a Zambian citizen.
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/ 11 February 2007
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi lives with violent crime on his doorstep in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria, but he is spared due to protection by armed guards, the Sunday Times reported — and at least seven armed robberies were reported in President Thabo Mbeki’s Pretoria neighbourhood in one month.
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/ 10 February 2007
African National Congress Adelaide Tambo’s death at the end of January came at a time when she was needed the most, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. The ANC and South Africans need to draw on the example set by Tambo, Mbeki told a crowd of thousands at her funeral in Wattville, outside Johannesburg.