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/ 18 October 2006
Johannesburg police on Wednesday promised pupils at a Booysens high school they would monitor their safety following the fatal stabbing of a pupil on the premises. "I will be here all the time with the principal," said newly appointed Booysens Commissioner Rex Qabanisa Mochabi, speaking to pupils at Forest Hill High.
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/ 16 October 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation said on Monday its group chief executive, Dali Mpofu, was reconsidering his options after the M&G Online published a report on the blacklisting of certain analysts and commentators by the broadcaster over the weekend.
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/ 13 October 2006
Nearly 80% of South African high schools are failing their children, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) said on Friday. ”The bad news in South Africa is that nearly 80% of schools provide education of such poor quality that they constitute a very significant obstacle to social and economic development,” wrote Nick Taylor in the IJR’s 2006 transformation audit, titled Money and Morality.
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/ 10 October 2006
The state’s Marine Living Resources Fund is R45-million in debt from having R53-million in its coffers by the end of March 2005, media reports said on Tuesday. The fund’s travel and entertainment costs went up from just over R2-million in 2004/05 to R23-million in 2005/06.
Two men who threatened to hijack a Kulula.com airliner on Friday were arrested after the aircraft returned to the Cape Town International airport. When the flight reached 15 000 feet, a cabin controller was threatened by a passenger who said he was going to hijack the plane, Stuart Cochrane, spokesperson for the airline, told the Mail & Guardian Online.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) admitted on Thursday that there were rifts in its leadership. "On the matter of leadership, there are cracks and there are cracks in every union," Cosatu president Willie Madisha told reporters at a briefing on the resolutions adopted by Cosatu’s ninth national congress. Madisha said that these problems were all being confronted this week.
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/ 28 September 2006
Stubbornly high crime statistics show South Africa has a long way to go to fight one of the prime deterrents to much-needed investment, business leaders said on Thursday. The latest crime data, released by the police on Wednesday, showed a slight decline in murders and other crimes but an alarming rise in others, such as armoured-car heists.
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/ 28 September 2006
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A statement issued by Jacob Zuma on Thursday saw him ”apologise unreservedly for the pain and anger” his recent statements about gays and lesbians may have caused. But some in the gay community feel that his was a ”false apology”. ”It’s one of those spin pieces designed to smooth ruffled feathers,” Donna Smith, CEO of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, said.
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/ 27 September 2006
Wednesday’s eventual release of the annual crime statistics raised strident calls for the figures to be made public more regularly. Democratic Alliance spokesperson Dianne Kohler-Barnard said the government’s continued refusal to publish crime statistics on a more regular basis meant the public had to wait another year before finding out just how serious the current crime spike affecting the country was.
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/ 22 September 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>Former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Friday accused the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of abusing its powers and violating his rights in its push to prosecute him on fraud and corruption charges. Speaking during a live televised media conference in Johannesburg, he said the NPA, through leaks to the media, had created a "culture of Zuma-bashing".