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A member of the African National Congress has launched a legal bid to postpone the party’s conference this month, citing divisions over its leadership and breaches of the Bill of Rights, local media said on Thursday. Lawyer and ANC member Votani Majola would seek an interdict at the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday.
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/ 6 December 2007
The klebsiella death toll at Durban’s Prince Mshiyeni Hospital has risen to six. This follows the deaths of five other babies at the hospital two weeks ago. The deceased’s mother, Lungile Ngema, said that nurses had taunted her, saying mothers who gave birth at home brought the disease to the hospital.
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/ 6 December 2007
Dutchman Pim Verbeek was unveiled on Thursday as the new coach of Australia, tasked with guiding them to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa. Verbeek and Frenchman Phillippe Troussier had been the front-runners for the job since another Dutchman, Dick Advocaat, reneged on his contract three weeks ago.
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President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday he hoped the African National Congress (ANC) would discuss floor-crossing at its national conference in Polokwane this month. Speaking in a South African Broadcasting Corporation radio interview, he said the ANC had been opposed to floor-crossing when the issue was first raised by opposition parties.
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/ 6 December 2007
The gallery of photographs told one story: a good-looking couple smiling in front of the Eiffel Tower, riding horses on a white sand beach in Hawaii. When police officers searched the Philadelphia flat of Jocelyn Kirsch and Edward Anderton they uncovered a different story.
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/ 6 December 2007
A lone gunman killed eight people and wounded five others before taking his own life in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday, the worst shooting in the United States since the Virginia Tech massacre earlier this year that left 33 dead. The killer, armed with a rifle, went on a rampage in a mall busy with Christmas shoppers.
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/ 6 December 2007
Life seemed to be starting all over at 42 for former Kaizer Chiefs and Bafana Bafana legend John ”Shoes” Moshoeu when he scored the equalising goal for AmaZulu against his old club in a 1-1 PSL draw at a rowdy King’s Park in Durban on Wednesday night.
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/ 6 December 2007
On radio this week President Thabo Mbeki described the ANC leadership race as "a model of democracy in motion". As with many of his lofty pronouncements, no one in South Africa believes him. All the signs are that the ANC is in the grip of a kind of collective madness, in which almost any campaign tactic is seen as justified.
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/ 6 December 2007
America’s highest court on Wednesday held what is expected to be the pivotal case on the future of the United States prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 300 foreigners accused of being terrorists are detained. The Supreme Court judges listened to arguments from the Bush administration and lawyers representing the detainees.
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/ 5 December 2007
…Two areas of new interest are in the fields of business magazines and technology. Business Today, Business World, the Economic Times, and Technocrat, launched fairly recently, are doing well … Bhutan, with less than 1 million population, can now boast of publishing its own national newspaper.
Authors: Anju Chaudhary and Anne Chen, in the book Global Journalism.