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The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for effective sanction of government departments for failing to answer written parliamentary questions after 233 of its questions went unanswered this year. Thirteen percent (233) of the 1 690 written parliamentary questions posed by the party this year remained unanswered on Wednesday.
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/ 13 December 2007
Nationwide Airlines intends retrenching 27 support staff based at Lanseria Airport, the trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. ”Nineteen workers out of the 27 on the list have already been notified that their employment is to be terminated by January 14 2008,” said Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans.
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/ 13 December 2007
The R230-million Gautrain tunnel-boring machine has been christened ”Imbokodo [Rock]”, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said in Johannesburg on Thursday. Shilowa said the name symbolises the country’s heritage of willpower and women’s emancipation. ”If you strike a woman, you strike a rock,” he said.
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/ 13 December 2007
Dark nights and candle-lit suppers may seem romantic, but South African retailers are losing money in what is usually the year’s most lucrative business month as they struggle to operate through repeated power failures caused by Eskom’s load-shedding programme.
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The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) has expressed ”dismay” at the African National Congress’s (ANC) succession debate focusing on the personalities of President Thabo Mbeki and ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”The PSAM believes that debate should be refocused on the protection of civil and political rights,” it said.
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/ 13 December 2007
The European Union and United States sparred on Thursday as negotiators raced against the clock to come up with framework deal to fight global warming after 2012. As exhausted negotiators fought over draft text behind closed doors, the 11-day-old conference received a jolt of star power as Nobel laureate Al Gore arrived.
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/ 13 December 2007
A restaurant fire in southern China killed has killed 10 people, state media reported on Thursday, hours after an apartment fire killed 21 in the eastern part of the country. Xinhua News Agency said the fire at a restaurant in the booming manufacturing city of Dongguan in Guangdong province also injured nine.
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/ 13 December 2007
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy’s former dormitory matron briefly appeared on Thursday in the Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court. Tiny Makgabo (27) faces charges of indecent assault, common assault, soliciting a minor to perform indecent acts and verbal abuse.
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/ 13 December 2007
Mongezi Jinxela — convicted on a total of 219 charges including rape, kidnapping, robbery and assault — was sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 years at the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. Handing down judgement, Judge George Maluleke said he recommended that Jinxela never receive parole as he would never be rehabilitated.
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/ 13 December 2007
Parents of hundreds of minor children shipped to Spain in a wave of illegal emigration from Senegal in recent years are not keen to have them back under a planned repatriation exercise. ”I don’t want my only son, my sole hope in life, to come back to Senegal,” sobbed housewife Diodo Seye.