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/ 23 January 2007
Trevor Ncube, the chief executive of the Mail & Guardian, said on Tuesday that he was ”delighted” that the Zimbabwe High Court in Harare would meet on January 24 to consider the threat to withdraw his Zimbabwean citizenship. The Zimbabwe government is preventing Ncube from renewing his passport, claiming he is not a citizen of Zimbabwe.
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/ 22 January 2007
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Monday affirmed its commitment to the fight against crime, poverty and unemployment in the country. Speaking to the media in the wake of the party’s national executive committee lekgotla (meeting), ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said there needs to be ”unity and purpose” in the fight against crime.
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/ 18 January 2007
Power cuts rippled across South Africa on Thursday, blacking out parts of major cities and spurring warnings from state utility Eskom that unexpected shortages could extend into next week. The cuts, which Eskom attributed to power-station maintenance and the shutdown of one unit at Koeberg, caused power failures stretching from Cape Town to Johannesburg.
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/ 15 January 2007
Most opposition parties on Monday strongly condemned disgraced former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni’s release on parole from Malmesbury prison after serving only four months of a four-year sentence. The ANC urged, however, that Yengeni be allowed to resume his normal life.
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/ 12 January 2007
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) reacted harshly on Friday to a charge of genocide laid against its head, Zackie Achmat, at the International Criminal Court earlier this week. In the 59-page criminal complaint, Achmat is accused of promoting the provision and use of antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV.
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/ 10 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s attempt to strip newspaper owner Trevor Ncube — publisher of the <i>Standard</i> and the <i>Zimbabwe Independent</i> in that country and the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> in South Africa — of his citizenship threatens the ownership of his newspapers and media freedom, the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) warned on Wednesday.
Four tourists were trapped for about two hours in darkness inside the Cango Caves near Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported on Sunday. The four were separated from their group, but when the cave lights went out, they were unable to find their way out.
Former state president Marais Viljoen died in the Muelmed Hospital in Pretoria on Thursday, his daughter said on Friday. Elna Meyer said her father was taken to hospital over a week ago and died due to heart failure. Known as a relatively moderate member of the National Party, Viljoen was the last non-executive state president of South Africa.
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/ 17 December 2006
The Young Communist League (YCL) has expelled its national general secretary, Mazibuko Jara, for bringing the party into disrepute, news reports said on Saturday. The Mail & Guardian reported late last year that the YCL was considering suspending Jara for questioning the league’s support for Jacob Zuma in a paper he wrote.
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/ 17 December 2006
Taliep Petersen, one of Cape Town’s most popular theatre personalities, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at his Athlone home on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. Petersen was internationally known and awarded for his work with David Kramer on the hit 1990s stage musical Kat and the Kings, among others.