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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a few days to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a week to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the Mail & Guardian asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>As the clock ticks towards the ANC’s congress, there’s anxiety and excitement. Not only internally, but in the nation, the ANC leadership battle has unleashed new opportunities for renewal and active particiÂpation. Everybody is talking, not just about who’ll lead us, but also about how we want to be led, writes Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
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/ 11 December 2007
There is a moment when you can sense the power draining away, when a point of no return has been reached and passed. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing that moment now in Britain, as a sense of staleness, sleaze and incompetence overwhelms his government.
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/ 11 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>With little more than a week to go before the ANC conference, the cleft in the party appears to be deepening and sniping between factions more acrimonious and personal. After interviews with party ‘elders’ last week, the Mail & Guardian asked four more senior leaders to reflect on the state of the ANC and its clouded future
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/ 11 December 2007
A settlement has been reached between the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and Nampak, Africa’s largest packaging manufacturer. In a joint statement by Sars and Nampak on Tuesday, the parties said they had agreed to settlement terms to resolve a matter relating to outstanding taxes, which were in dispute for the last two years.
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/ 11 December 2007
Cape Town firefighters have brought under control a fire that broke out in an industrial building in Salt River early on Tuesday. Johan Minnie of the city’s disaster management said the fire, which started in the building before spreading to a nearby train station, had finally been contained by late afternoon.
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/ 11 December 2007
A Southern African regional tribunal based in Namibia said on Tuesday that it would rule this week on an appeal filed by a white Zimbabwean farmer who was evicted from his land. ”We will deliver a ruling before the end of the week,” Judge Onkemetse Tshosa, president of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal, said.
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/ 11 December 2007
A winter storm raging over the Midwestern United States on Tuesday reportedly left two dozen people dead and hundreds of thousands without power, as ice toppled trees and power lines and sent cars skidding off slick roads. Most of the fatalities were reported in Oklahoma, where authorities also said more than 600 000 people were without power.
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/ 11 December 2007
Thousands of members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) in Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape are expected to strike this week, the union said on Tuesday. Samwu provincial secretary Sphiwo Ndunyana said at least 3 000 municipal workers were expected to down tools on Thursday to hand over a memorandum detailing their concerns.