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/ 5 February 2007
First National Bank (FNB) will go ahead with its anti-crime campaign but at a later date, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday. The bank withdrew its multimillion-rand initiative meant to pressurise President Thabo Mbeki into making crime prevention his first priority, apparently after meeting with security cluster leaders on Friday.
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/ 1 February 2007
Kabwe, central Zambia’s second-largest town and once a thriving base of lead and zinc mining, is one of the most polluted places on Earth. It suffers from large-scale lead contamination, the legacy of the town’s now-defunct lead mines that were run by the state-owned Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings until they closed down in the mid-1990s.
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/ 30 January 2007
Nadine Gordimer’s controversial and now unauthorised biographer, Ronald Suresh Roberts, on Monday took aim at South Africa’s "colonial media", saying contrasting views had been suppressed after the <i>Sunday Times</i> ran a critical profile on him. He was speaking at a reading of his biography on Gordimer, <i>No Cold Kitchen</i>.
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/ 30 January 2007
South African low-cost airline 1time is not backing down to increasing competition in its sector and is adding new routes and more flights to its current flight schedule. From March 25, 1time will fly daily between Cape Town and Durban and on Fridays and Sundays between Johannesburg and George.
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/ 25 January 2007
South African commuters will be among the thousands of travellers set to be inconvenienced as British Airways on Thursday announced the cancellation of all its flights for two days next week from London’s Heathrow airport, and many from Gatwick, due to a planned strike by cabin crew.
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/ 23 January 2007
Trevor Ncube, the chief executive of the Mail & Guardian, said on Tuesday that he was ”delighted” that the Zimbabwe High Court in Harare would meet on January 24 to consider the threat to withdraw his Zimbabwean citizenship. The Zimbabwe government is preventing Ncube from renewing his passport, claiming he is not a citizen of Zimbabwe.
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/ 22 January 2007
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Monday affirmed its commitment to the fight against crime, poverty and unemployment in the country. Speaking to the media in the wake of the party’s national executive committee lekgotla (meeting), ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said there needs to be ”unity and purpose” in the fight against crime.
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/ 16 January 2007
Frustrated South African consumers, led by the Telecommunications Action Group (TAG), will on Friday publish a full-page advert in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> newspaper calling for the reform of the telecommunications sector in the country. "We took this action because as consumers we are tired … of the poor service," TAG founder Alastair Otter said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s attempt to strip newspaper owner Trevor Ncube — publisher of the <i>Standard</i> and the <i>Zimbabwe Independent</i> in that country and the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> in South Africa — of his citizenship threatens the ownership of his newspapers and media freedom, the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) warned on Wednesday.
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/ 22 December 2006
"She was made of real grit, true grit, that was Fiona," actress Shirley Firth, says of her dear friend Fiona Fraser-Brewer, the eccentric theatre personality who passed away this week, at the age of 77. An independent and outspoken person throughout her life, Fraser-Brewer’s friends described her as someone who was committed to her craft and who gave everything to her acting.