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/ 14 February 2008
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. It seems the two big players in South Africa’s pharmaceutical cartel ignored this famous piece of advice and now they’re facing the heat. It’s a classic street story of the double-cross and the snitch told by gangsters the world over.
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/ 14 February 2008
The national war room for a War against Poverty was one of the more ringing phrases in the State of the Nation speech, but what does it mean? For one, it’s not a room, says Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya, but signals a reprioritisation of economic policy from a focus on growth to a focus on caring.
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/ 14 February 2008
Global warming, which is threatening the viability of the drought-stricken wine industry in Australia, could be a boon for neighbouring New Zealand which has been enjoying a growing reputation for its quality wines. New Zealand’s subtle flavoured wines, mostly whites such as Sauvignon Blanc but also reds such as Pinot Noir, are appearing on the tables of fine restaurants from London to Los Angeles.
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/ 14 February 2008
There will not be ”two centres of power” and the government and ANC will work smoothly together, the ANC has soothingly told the nation. Oh really? With the political year hardly begun, there are tensions between the new ANC leadership and President Thabo Mbeki already, most notably over who will be South Africa’s deputy president and over the Scorpions.
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/ 13 February 2008
Three forms of technical evidence submitted to the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday fingered some of the accused in the Jeppestown ”massacre”. Two of them were linked through fingerprints to cars parked at the scene of the crime. DNA samples from clothes were linked to the blood of another accused.
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/ 13 February 2008
KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Judge President Vuka Tshabalala said on Wednesday that he had returned all the shares in Absa Bank worth millions of rands, which were given to him by a consortium headed by businessman Tokyo Sexwale. ”I have returned the shares. That’s the end of the matter,” said Tshabalala.
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/ 13 February 2008
Lawyers for Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader blamed by French bank Société Générale for huge losses, lodged an appeal against his detention, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. Kerviel placed a secret wrong-way bet on the share market that Société Générale blames for a -billion trading loss in the world’s biggest rogue trading scandal.
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/ 13 February 2008
The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a plan to fingerprint all foreigners visiting 24 European countries. The electronic register, similar to a policy adopted by the United States after the September 11 2001 attacks could go into effect by 2015 if governments and European lawmakers agree, the European Union executive said.
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/ 13 February 2008
At least 830 of KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) law-enforcement officers are under investigation for a host of crimes ranging from assault through to rape and murder, figures released by the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) revealed on Wednesday.