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Electricity parastatal Eskom has failed to secure permission to hike annual tariffs by 18% after the National Energy Regulator (Nersa) on Thursday ruled that it may only implement a price increase of 14,2%. Nersa said that the rule changes applied for by Eskom in April had been declined.
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>In the aftermath of Tuesday’s top six election, several senior Cabinet ministers and their aides are now getting their CVs together and are suddenly looking forward to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> jobs section on Friday — they realise their future in a Zuma government and ANC is not looking very bright.
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>A vision to link social grant users with access to the economy appears one of the "stronger resolutions" emanating from the ANC’s social transformation commissions. Vusi Madonsela, director general of the Department of Social Development, said that one of the two commissions had deliberated on the issue of ensuring that people did not become dependent on social grants.
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>The shift to the left is not a dramatic U-turn, it is a gradual process which is already under way, the South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Wednesday. The SACP is hoping that the change in ANC leadership with the election of Jacob Zuma as ANC president will provide an opportunity for changing policy perspectives to be accommodated.
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/ 20 December 2007
Whatever you call him — a rising star, a dark horse, a leader-in-waiting — ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe arguably emerged as the most important and powerful victor in Polokwane this week. “Comrade Motlanthe, sabela uya-bizwa [you are being called to service],” sang delegates.
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/ 20 December 2007
In food-obsessed France, distinguishing between the tart and the bitter or the crunchy and the crackly, or even simply sorting good food from bad, became part of the school year nearly two decades ago. So it is almost routine to march a class of 10-year-olds into one of the world’s most sought-after restaurants for a morning of munching through platefuls of delicacies whipped up by one of the country’s top chefs.
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/ 20 December 2007
Christmas is going to the dogs — and cats — in the United States, where many of the 71,1-million US households that have a furry family member include them in their holiday celebrations. That doesn’t just mean buying them a present, but includes throwing a party for them, having them photographed with Santa, or giving them a spa treatment.
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/ 20 December 2007
The African National Congress is our ruling party. So who does it actually consist of? Phakamisa Ndzamela, Sello Selebi and Thembelihle Tshabalala talk to some delegates at Polokwane.
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/ 20 December 2007
Three men released from Guantánamo Bay after five years on Wednesday were being held by British police on Wednesday night, even though, according to counter-terrorism sources, they are unlikely to face criminal charges in the United Kingdom.
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/ 20 December 2007
Sanele “Shanée” Moroka is a girl trapped in a boy’s body who found herself snorting champers with the “working classes” after the Zunami swept all. She hopes the bubbles don’t burst and says the conference really has confirmed her predilection for older men.