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/ 19 February 2007
Gauteng has more jobs and is becoming a better place to live, Premier Mbhazima Shilowa told the opening of the provincial legislature on Monday. Shilowa promised more action on crime and African education, more antiretrovirals and a fast clean-up of the collapsed driver’s-licence testing system.
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/ 19 February 2007
Globalisation has left world employment mostly intact, despite gloomy economic forecasts predicting hefty job losses, according to a study published on Monday. The study challenges the ”race-to-the-bottom view” that growing world trade would bring in terms of wages and the quality of employment.
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/ 19 February 2007
Malawi, which has the highest deforestation rate in Southern Africa, has roped in its army to save the trees, environmental officials said on Monday. The Natural Resources Ministry over the weekend inked a deal with the Malawi army for soldiers to be deployed to protect 16 of the country’s prime forest reserves and step up reforestation.
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/ 19 February 2007
Freedom of expression is central to the Constitutional Court appeal against a Durban schoolgirl’s right to wear a nose stud to school, the Freedom of Expression Institute said on Monday. The appeal is against a KwaZulu-Natal high court decision in favour of Sunali Pillay’s wearing of a nose stud to school.
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/ 19 February 2007
Jackie Maarohanye, the embattled principal of the Ithuteng Trust school in Kliptown, was taken to hospital after collapsing following her appearance in the Protea Magistrate’s Court in Soweto, media reports said on Monday. She was allegedly part of a group that held a reporter and driver from the Sowetan newspaper hostage at the weekend.
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/ 19 February 2007
The office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, former Spanish President José MarÃa Aznar and the United States Navy Seals all had some connection to the alleged attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Monday.
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/ 19 February 2007
A twin boy and girl burnt to death in a blaze that gutted their home in Sea View, Durban, on Monday afternoon, emergency services said. Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the seven-year-old siblings had tried to escape, but could not because of burglar bars. Paramedics declared them dead on scene.
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/ 19 February 2007
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5,7 struck the Lake Albert region of western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, officials said, but there was no immediate word of casualties or damage. ”An earthquake passed here but it did not hurt anyone or destroy any property,” Andrew Diboi, police chief for western Uganda, told Reuters by telephone.
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/ 19 February 2007
Two buses collided head-on, killing 17 people, in South Africa on Monday, after one swerved to avoid a donkey in the road, police said. At least 45 others were injured in what police called the worst road accident this year in the northern Limpopo province. ”The donkey was just passing by. Animals roam around here,” said Limpopo police Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba.
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/ 19 February 2007
Thousands of Liberians on Monday lined the road from airport to the seaside capital, Monrovia, to welcome their leader back from a donors’ conference where she secured a massive debt-relief deal. Villagers and residents of small towns along the 50km road from Roberts International Airport came out to praise President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for a "job well done".