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/ 30 November 2007
<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>With only two weeks left before the start of the ANC’s national conference, it is still unclear whether Jacob Zuma will contest the position of party president as a corruption accused or not. The NPA’s Zuma investigations team on Thursday presented a "final briefing" to acting NPA head Mokotedi Mpshe, who must now decide if he has enough evidence to recharge Zuma.
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/ 30 November 2007
Both Tito watchers and Ben watchers are expecting a change in interest rates. But while South African consumers are expecting another hike, United States consumers are expecting another cut. As a result, South Africa could attract interest from speculators wanting to take advantage of our higher rates, and could help to strengthen the rand.
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/ 29 November 2007
The Gauteng government is trying to curtail opposition politicians’ investigations into public health facilities, the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) said on Thursday. The FXI said a complaint by provincial minister of health Brian Hlongwa about Democratic Alliance member Jack Bloom’s visits to public health facilities in the province was ”problematic”.
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/ 29 November 2007
Hundreds of people gathered in a Cape Town church on Thursday to remember Ian Smith, Rhodesia’s widely reviled former prime minister, as a kind, stubborn and misunderstood son of the soil. The hall of the St John’s Anglican Church in Cape Town overflowed with well-wishers — all but a handful of them white and many ex-Rhodesian.
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/ 29 November 2007
Adam Scott of Australia and Trevor Immelman of South Africa both scored five-under-par 67s to share the first-round lead in the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City on Thursday. English pair Justin Rose and Luke Donald are lying one off the pace on 68, with tournament favourite Ernie Els of South Africa, who is trying for a record fourth title in this annual 12-man event.
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/ 29 November 2007
With little to attract tourists, a region in northern Sweden is pinning hope on a truly gargantuan wooden moose. When completed, the 45m-tall, 47m-long moose will have a restaurant in its belly, as well as a concert hall, conference rooms and a shop, project coordinator and local tourism promoter Thorbjorn Holmlund said on Thursday.
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/ 29 November 2007
British and Irish efforts to retain their imperial measures of pints and miles while surrounded by the litres and kilometres of continental Europe moved a yard closer on Thursday as the European Union Parliament backed the moves. One imperial casualty, though, is the acre.
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/ 29 November 2007
It’s a done deal. All the signs are there that Jacob Zuma will lead the African National Congress.
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/ 29 November 2007
The handover of a controversial report drawn up by an African Union watchdog into standards of governance in South Africa was postponed indefinitely on Thursday, officials said. President Thabo Mbeki was expected to have received the African Peer Review Mechanism report at a ceremony in Pretoria to which journalists had been invited.
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/ 29 November 2007
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) lost R66-million on fraudulent unemployment claims between April 2005 and March this year, the fund said on Thursday. UIF spokesperson Kgomotso Sebetso said it is considered fraud for people to continue to receive benefits despite having secured a new job.