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<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>New allegations against African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma have been included in an affidavit before the Constitutional Court, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Friday. Johan du Plooy, a senior special investigator for the Scorpions, said investigations had uncovered substantial new evidence against Zuma.
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Sara Kadi, a volunteer Aids worker who lives in a shack without electricity in an impoverished part of Soweto, wants a better life. That is why she wants Jacob Zuma to win the race for the leadership of the ruling African National Congress and become the next president of South Africa.
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/ 15 December 2007
Production on all but two of the last few scripted prime-time television shows shooting in Los Angeles ground to a halt on Friday as a crippling strike by Hollywood writers neared the end of its sixth week. The cost of the strike in terms of lost TV production spending in Southern California alone has reached about -million a week,
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/ 14 December 2007
German fathers are staying home with their newborn babies in unexpectedly high numbers in the first year of a generous government subsidy meant to boost the country’s low birth rate, officials said on Friday. Fathers accounted for about 10% of subsidy beneficiaries in the third quarter of this year, a major shift in the attitude of German men taking time off work.
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/ 14 December 2007
Greg Norman fired a second-round two-under-par 70 at the South African Open on Friday and then criticised organisers for changes to the Pearl Valley course after the first round. The former world number one is on one-over-par for the tournament, three strokes behind leader James Kingston of SA.
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/ 14 December 2007
Axed Sowetan sub-editor Llewellyn Kriel, who was fired by the Sowetan newspaper after blogging about his employer on the Mail & Guardian Online‘s Thought Leader, said on Friday he confindent of a ”positive outcome” at his appeal hearing.
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A Jacob Zuma-led African National Congress will have a major impact in KwaZulu-Natal, analysts and politicians in the province said on Friday. They agreed the ANC’s popularity in the province would increase at the expense of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) if Zuma was elected the party’s new leader in Polokwane next week.
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African National Cngress veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela held meetings with both the party’s deputy president Jacob Zuma and its president Thabo Mbeki on
Friday afternoon. Madikizela-Mandela has suggested Mbeki and Zuma retain their current party positions for the next five years, but that Zuma assume the country’s presidency in 2009.
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/ 14 December 2007
<i>We Write What We Like</i> (Wits University Press), a collection of essays on Steve Biko edited by Chris van Wyk, has just been published.
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/ 14 December 2007
There’s not much point to Africanising Christmas, but for a twist on the traditional Shane Sauvage is hard to beat, writes Matthew Burbidge.