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/ 17 October 2006
South Africa was honoured to be elected to a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council on Monday and would work for peace and to reform the UN, said Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Delighted officials in Pretoria labelled it ”the opportunity of a lifetime”.
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/ 17 October 2006
African leaders began talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday aimed at finding a resolution to the four-year-old political crisis that has rocked troubled Côte d’Ivoire. Heads of state from eight of the 15 members of the African Union Peace and Security Council met alongside embattled Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny.
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/ 17 October 2006
An attempt by Venezuelan Pesident, Hugo Chávez, to challenge the hegemony of the United States and Britain within the United Nations by having his country join the Security Council was hanging in the balance on Monday night after a series of votes failed to decide an outright winner.
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/ 16 October 2006
Over 60% of the Jali Commission’s recommendations have either been or are in the process of being implemented by the Department of Correctional Services, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Monday. Briefing the media at Parliament, Balfour said he welcomed the commission’s findings and recommendations, as they affirmed the department was on the right track.
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/ 16 October 2006
With South Africa set to take up its first-ever seat on the United Nations Security Council in New York on Monday night, officials in Pretoria labelled this ”the opportunity of a lifetime”. They said they had been busy for months, analysing international hotspots and sharpening diplomatic pencils in readiness for South Africa’s role at the world body’s most powerful organ.
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/ 16 October 2006
Two near simultaneous car bombs killed 20 people and wounded 17 in a mixed neighbourhood in northern Baghdad on Monday, an Interior Ministry source said. One of the blasts in Ur district went off near a market, police said. The attacks took place at sunset shortly before Iftar, when Muslims break their fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
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/ 16 October 2006
The South African Communist Party (SACP) stood by its general secretary Blade Nzimande on Monday in his criticism of the African National Congress, but called for an end to public spats within the tripartite alliance.
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/ 16 October 2006
Police undertook on Monday to explore all avenues to ensure that cash-in-transit security guards are able to transport money in a safer environment. ”Our main objective will be to create a safe and secure environment for the cash-in-transit guards,” said national police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo in a statement.
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/ 16 October 2006
Correctional services is strengthening its ”onslaught” against fraud, corruption and unethical behaviour by publicly naming those found guilty and dismissed since the institution of various interventions. Briefing the media at Parliament on Monday, Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour released the first list of correctional officials dismissed after being found guilty of various charges.
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/ 16 October 2006
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was not responding to any form of pressure in condemning the Young Communist League (YCL) for calling President Thabo Mbeki a dictator, the league said on Monday. ”The ANC did not pressure us to issue a statement condemning the YCL,” the organisation said in a statement.