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The African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday laid down some house rules aimed at preventing factionalism ahead of its national conference, at which its new leadership structure is to be elected. The warning comes after heated debate over whether President Thabo Mbeki should continue for another term, or whether party deputy Jacob Zuma should succeed him.
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Former England soccer manager Steve McClaren fought off tough competition from United States President George Bush to win a dreaded Foot in Mouth award on Tuesday from the Plain English campaign. He was hailed for a supreme example of gobbledegook in talking about star player Wayne Rooney: ”He is inexperienced but he’s experienced in terms of what he’s been through.”
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A crack police team killed 11 would-be robbers and wounded one when it thwarted a cash-in-transit heist on the R101 near the Carousel casino in Limpopo on Tuesday. National police spokesperson Director Phuti Setati said members of the task force had received a tip-off that the men were going to rob a Coin security van at about 11.40am.
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The assertion by the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs that all is well at the Land Bank and there has been significant progress in the past three months ”does not fly”, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. It is common knowledge that ”the situation at the Land Bank has been all but rosy,” DA spokesperson Kraai van Niekerk said.
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”Sexist” remarks made by Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi about women’s equity were misunderstood, the trade-union federation said on Tuesday. ”It was for some reason interpreted as an attack on women and this we totally reject,” said Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven.
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has chosen not to take sides in the battle for the African National Congress (ANC) leadership between the President Thabo Mbeki or party deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”We will seek to work with whoever is democratically elected,” said TAC secretary Mark Heywood on Tuesday.
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Rock legends Led Zeppelin showed they have not lost any of their appeal, despite a 27-year break in performing, advancing years and the death of the band’s original drummer, British press said on Tuesday. The legendary 1970s band’s one-off reunion gig at London’s O2 Arena on Monday night was hailed as the return of rock’n’roll.
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Two private detectives claim they know who killed Stellenbosch student Inge Lotz, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday. The two had laid charges of intimidation and obstruction of justice against two police officers who they claim knew the details and did nothing about it.
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The German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Zimbabwe’s chief diplomat in Berlin to protest comments from the country’s information minister, who was reported as calling Chancellor Angela Merkel a ”fascist”. Merkel told a summit on the weekend that the government of Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe was ”damaging the image of Africa”.
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A twin car bomb strike rocked Algiers on Tuesday killing at least 62 people and devastating a United Nations office where staff were trapped for hours after the blasts, hospital officials said. It was the worst of a series of bombings in the capital and other major Algerian cities this year. All the past attacks were claimed by al-Qaeda.