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President Thabo Mbeki’s team fought back after a first day of humiliation at the ANC’s 52nd national conference at Polokwane, holding an unprecedented rally at lunchtime. Jacob Zuma’s people responded with an even bigger rally. The Mbeki rally was part of a package of measures to turn back the voting gains of deputy president Jacob Zuma, who is set to take the top job.
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Heavy early-morning rain on Monday did nothing to dampen the spirits of supporters of the frontrunners in the ANC leadership race, but journalists were left high and dry while trying to attend proceedings and even had equipment broken by security marshals later in the day.
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/ 18 December 2007
President Robert Mugabe’s government has amended security and media laws that critics say have helped him entrench his rule. The changes to the Public Order and Security Act were agreed at talks, brokered by South African President Thabo Mbeki, between Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party and two factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
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Voters turned out in droves on Tuesday for the election of the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) president at the University of Limpopo. It was unclear whether voting had started, as journalists were barred from going anywhere near the voting station.
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/ 18 December 2007
The JSE was lower at midday on Tuesday, playing catch-up after the public holiday on Monday when there was weakness in global equity markets. By 12.04pm, the JSE’s all-share index had pulled back 2,38%. The gold mining index fell 3,31%, resources lost 3,21% and the platinum mining index gave up 3,16%.
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/ 18 December 2007
Global brewing giant SABMiller (SAB) and Koninklijke Grolsch NV said on Tuesday that they will submit a request for approval of the offer memorandum in respect of the SABMiller offer for Grolsch to the Dutch authority for the financial markets this week.
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/ 18 December 2007
Home for Jon Adams is a Randburg suburb no different to hundreds of thousands of comfortable northern suburbs residents. There are even a couple of solar collectors on his roof that provide hot water for the house. But here the similarities stop, because the roof also has 36 solar panels each generating 80W peak power to provide electricity for his home.
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/ 18 December 2007
Conrad Black was sentenced on December 10 to six-and-a-half years in a United States prison for abusing shareholders’ trust money through a sophisticated plot to embezzle $6,1million from his Hollinger media empire.
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/ 18 December 2007
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals, set at the turn of the century, made up the most aspirational development programme ever devised. But a progress report published recently by Unicef says that even though more babies are surviving, more children are in school and fewer families live in poverty, urgent action is needed if the goals are to be met by the target date of 2015.
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/ 18 December 2007
I call her "the torturer" to her face, as do most of her clients, but that never elicits anything other than a broad smile and a smug nod. She’s diminutive, has delicate features and a soft nature, yet the pain she inflicts easily brings tears to the eyes of her many clients. Three years after being a regular customer of hers, I still wriggle and scream out loud.