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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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/ 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.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Democratic Alliance on Monday called for an urgent investigation into the Gautrain project, suggesting the Auditor General lead it. This follows weekend reports that two Cabinet ministers, among others, are among the shareholders of a consortium tasked with the already controversial Gautrain project.
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/ 26 November 2006
Tony Leon will step down as leader of the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in May, he told reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday. He said 13 years in office is ”the absolute upper limit of effective leadership”. Leon will, however, remain an MP and continue writing a book he has been commissioned to publish.
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/ 26 November 2006
Two Cabinet ministers, a deputy minister and National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete have shares in the consortium that is building the Gautrain, according to the <i>Sunday Times</i>. The shareholding structure in the Bombela Consortium, which won the R23-billion Gautrain bid, has been a closely guarded secret.
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/ 20 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki told religious leaders on Monday to trust what he had done regarding the controversy around police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi — and they did. This was after the religious leaders had suggested an inquiry into the relationship between Selebi and Glenn Agliotti, who was arrested last week for the murder of Brett Kebble.
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/ 17 November 2006
A former Hell’s Angels biker who, it is believed, killed mining magnate Brett Kebble last October, has vanished, media reports said on Friday. Also, a Johannesburg police commissioner has apparently been arrested in connection with Glenn Agliotti, the businessman arrested on Thursday morning in connection with the murder.