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/ 14 December 2006
The African National Congress (ANC) has expelled its parliamentary chief whip, Mbulelo Goniwe, for sexual harassment, it announced on Thursday. This means he will no longer be an MP, nor will he serve as chief whip, said Kader Asmal, who chaired the ANC national disciplinary committee probe into the allegation against Goniwe.
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/ 14 December 2006
After months of threats since a series of fuel spills happened at OR Tambo International Airport, the Environmental and Conservation Association has finally pressed charges against the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa), the association said on Thursday.
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/ 14 December 2006
All journeys undertaken by President Thabo Mbeki and Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka this year will be investigated by a commission of inquiry, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota announced on Wednesday evening. The deputy president has been at the centre of much travel-expense controversy in the past year.
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/ 13 December 2006
The murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble was an assisted suicide, according to an affidavit submitted to the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in support of Kebble murder accused Glenn Agliotti’s bail application. Agliotti was granted bail of R500Â 000 and the matter was postponed to January 25.
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/ 12 December 2006
Three people, including a three-month-old baby, have died and more than 700 have been left homeless after severe flooding in KwaZulu-Natal, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported on Monday. Two people drowned after the Bhanya River burst its banks at Bhekuzulu township in Vryheid, the SABC said.
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/ 11 December 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it is angered by President Thabo Mbeki’s use of the race card against the labour federation. Cosatu said in a statement on Sunday that Mbeki had written about it and the South African Communist Party in his weekly newsletter on ANC Today.
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/ 6 December 2006
<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 state has given its strongest indication yet that it intends to recharge Jacob Zuma with corruption, media reports said on Wednesday. The National Prosecuting Authority had notified Zuma and the French arms company Thint that it would apply for certain documents to be released by the Mauritian High Court, which is holding them by sealed order.
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/ 1 December 2006
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi believes his name will be cleared, his office said on Friday. Police were responding to a story in Friday’s Mail & Guardian that alleges that Selebi has been aware of a criminal investigation against his friend Glenn Agliotti for the past four years.
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/ 30 November 2006
The Johannesburg High Court has dismissed with costs an urgent application by the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions to prevent the Mail & Guardian publishing a series of articles on police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s relationship with Brett Kebble murder accused Glenn Agliotti.
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/ 30 November 2006
The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions on Thursday applied for an urgent interdict preventing the Mail & Guardian from publishing a series of articles on police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s relationship with Brett Kebble murder accused Glenn Agliotti.