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<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>Did the ANC fatten up for the slaughter in Polokwane? An audit of membership statistics suggests the wholesale recruitment of new members to boost the girth of provincial delegations has played — and will play — a role in the outcomes at Limpopo.
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Jacob Zuma, the populist politician, humiliated President Thabo Mbeki with a sweeping victory in the election for leader of the African National Congress on Tuesday night. Zuma, who survived a rape trial and his dismissal as the country’s deputy president by Mbeki over corruption allegations, took 60% of the nearly 4Â 000 votes at the party’s national conference.
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/ 19 December 2007
At least 64 journalists were killed in 2007, making it the deadliest year in more than a decade with Iraq the most dangerous place in the world to report, a United States media watchdog said on Monday. About seven in 10 of the deaths in 2007 were murders, while the rest were combat-related deaths and deaths in dangerous assignments.
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/ 19 December 2007
Gauteng’s economy remained under pressure in November although strong performances were reported in several sectors. The Gauteng business barometer decreased by 2,7% to 142 index points, compared with November last year. However, it is 1% higher than the level of one month ago.
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/ 19 December 2007
Skills shortages, touted as the critical issue hampering the effectiveness of government, are nowhere more obvious than at local government level, role players in the sector told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. Although local government has upped its game in the past few years and significant gains have been made by municipalities local government is still not operating at the expected level.
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/ 19 December 2007
The metropolitan council of Tshwane, despite the ongoing debate around the use of the name, is meeting its challenges head-on and seems certain to meet its goals, according to the city’s executive management. Executive mayor Dr Gwen Ramokgopa heads the 152-member council, which is led by an ANC majority.
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/ 19 December 2007
The Vuna Awards, which took place this week, provide an incentive for municipalities, rewarding those that give their communities excellent services and governance. In keeping with its name (Vuna means “harvest together” in the Nguni family of languages), “the awards seek to encourage service excellence and to celebrate municipalities, which are sowing the seeds of genuine development."
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/ 19 December 2007
When the annual Vuka! Awards proudly celebrate a decade in existence next year they will be getting a new look. At this year’s Vuka! prize ceremony MultiChoice chief executive Nolo Letele announced that from 2008 the initiative will be hosted by M-Net. “We truly believe M-Net, our sister company and one of MultiChoice’s channel providers, will provide valuable insight and expertise and take the Vuka! Awards to the next level,” said Letele.
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/ 19 December 2007
South Africa, faced with one of the most severe HIV/Aids epidemics in the world, grapples daily with the challenges around education, prevention and management of the pandemic. A UNAids report estimates that in 2005 1,2-million South African children were left orphaned by HIV/Aids, double the number in 2003.
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/ 19 December 2007
Sedibeng, the district municipality comprising the municipalities of Midvaal, Lesedi and Emfuleni, is a district with a long-term plan that shows it is far from being reticent. The area is one of the poorest in southern Gauteng. Historically, the it was predominantly white and middle class.