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/ 21 December 2007
The present South African government will serve out its term, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was speaking at his official residence in Pretoria a day after the closing of the African National Congress’s national conference in Polokwane that saw Jacob Zuma toppling him as party president.
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/ 21 December 2007
An internal forensic audit at the offices of KwaZulu-Natal Premier S’bu Ndebele has revealed that some of his employees were involved in fraud and corruption, the premier’s spokesperson said on Friday. A service-provider employee had been working ”in cahoots with employees” to make illegal and unauthorised payments to the provider.
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/ 21 December 2007
A new biography about Cyril Ramaphosa paints a portrait of a pragmatic reconciler and institution builder, writes Drew Forrest.
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/ 21 December 2007
Former Springbok hooker James Dalton, accused of attempting to murder his wife, Andrea, appeared briefly in the Pretoria Regional Court on Friday. Dalton (35) was arrested in November after he handed himself over to the Boschkop police, about a week after his wife had laid the charge.
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/ 21 December 2007
Tickets for Durban’s much-anticipated A1 Grand Prix (GP) went on sale at 9am on Friday and confident organisers expect the event to attract thousands of motorsport lovers in February next year. The A1 GP, now in its third season, takes place in Durban from February 22 to 24.
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/ 21 December 2007
A KwaZulu-Natal farmer was shot dead on his farm in the Estcourt area, the KwaZulu-Natal Agriculture Union (KwaNalu) said on Friday. Initial information received by the union was that Greene (70) had been approached by a group of men on Thursday and sustained a single, fatal gunshot wound.
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/ 21 December 2007
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Friday revived a controversial plan to hand over a swathe of rainforest to a local company to be destroyed and replaced with a sugarcane plantation. Museveni called those who oppose his plan to give 7 100 hectares to the Mehta group’s sugar estate ”criminals and charlatans”.
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/ 21 December 2007
Microfinance services for the world’s very poor will likely continue to grow despite any global downturn, Citigroup says, but said the sector must diversify beyond small loans to saving and insurance schemes. Citigroup is seen as one of the leaders in the microfinance sector amongst major global banks.
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/ 21 December 2007
Sotheby’s recently sold a handwritten volume of five stories by JK Rowling for an eye-popping £1,95-million, writes Mark Brown.
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/ 21 December 2007
European pop music gets a taste of African influence, writes Dave Simpson.