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/ 5 December 2007
A reported spat between Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya and Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota was an indication of how the divisions within the African National Congress (ANC) were running through the Cabinet, a political analyst said on Wednesday.
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/ 5 December 2007
President Hugo Chávez said on Wednesday his push to have Venezuela accept sweeping constitutional reforms has ”not finished” despite being rejected in a weekend referendum. ”The discussion on the transformation of the state is not finished,” he told state VTV television.
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/ 5 December 2007
Johannes Heesters, the world’s oldest stage performer, turned 104 in Berlin on Wednesday, with the Dutch-born operetta singer set to do a birthday special in the evening in a city theatre. Heesters kept to his habit of rising late and breakfasting on cappuccino while phone calls of congratulation had to wait, his wife said.
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/ 5 December 2007
The Erasmus Commission of Inquiry probing Cape Town’s ”spy saga” is calling for public submissions on the matter. The commission, headed by Judge Nathan Erasmus, has already started studying all available documentation relating to the issue, commission secretary Zithulele Twala said on Wednesday.
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/ 5 December 2007
The South African National Editors’ Forum has welcomed the withdrawal of criminal charges laid by police against a journalist who was arrested while covering a car accident in Lenasia on Tuesday. The journalist was covering an accident involving a police truck transporting prisoners when he was arrested by police.
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/ 5 December 2007
Nationwide is hopeful it could have a plane in the air on Friday, the company said on Wednesday. ”That’s what we’re hoping, but it’s not guaranteed,” said Nationwide spokeswoman Charmaine Thome. ”We don’t want to get people’s hopes up.” If possible, a plane would fly to London on Friday, she said.
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/ 5 December 2007
Four men were arrested in Johannesburg on Wednesday in connection with a string of robberies of tourists at OR Tambo International Airport, police said. ”The men were arrested in Hillbrow and Yeoville around 2am this morning,” said police spokesperson Sergeant Sanku Tsunke.
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/ 5 December 2007
Israeli archaeologists said on Wednesday they have unearthed a palace complex dating back to the first century AD in an Arab neighbourhood just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. Archaeologists discovered a structure that is ”relatively big in size and subdivided into main halls”, said Doron Ben-Ami, the project director.
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According to the Democratic Alliance (DA), the broadcast by President Thabo Mbeki on 15 South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) radio stations on Wednesday evening confirms for South African listeners at large the conviction that the public broadcaster is a party organ.
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/ 5 December 2007
The business confidence index (BCI), after dipping to 96,9 in October, dropped further to 95,8 in November, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Wednesday. ”The November 2007 BCI is the lowest level of the BCI since February 2004 and yet another new low for 2007,” the chamber said.