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The African National Congress (ANC) said on Monday it had suspended an activist for launching a legal battle to postpone the party’s leadership conference. Votani Majola has asked the country’s Supreme Court of Appeal to grant his request to have the ANC’s December 16 to 20 congress delayed for six months.
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/ 11 December 2007
Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought. People today are genetically more different from people living 5 000 years ago than those humans were different from the Neanderthals who vanished 30 000 years ago.
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/ 11 December 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe claimed that his country had ”defeated the British” after he attended an Europe Union-Africa summit in Lisbon at the weekend, state media reported on Tuesday. ”We defeated the British, we were the victors over the British,” the state-run Herald quoted Mugabe as saying.
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/ 11 December 2007
Every year since 2000, the water level of Bali’s Lake Buyan has been falling, leaving many locals puzzled. Some believe deforestation in the surrounding mountains is to blame, while green groups suspect the shrinking lake is emblematic of looming water shortages the Indonesian island is likely to face as more and more tourists visit.
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/ 11 December 2007
It’s Monday morning and press ombudsman Joe Thloloe is trawling through his emails over a cup of tea. His inbox contains three complaints about cartoonist Zapiro’s depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in a sketch for the <i>Star</i>. Then the phone rings.
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/ 11 December 2007
Foundation-phase (grade R to three) learners and teachers can now benefit from a highly successful international initiative that partners primary schools and universities to promote the improved teaching and learning of English. On a local level it has been tailored to include all 11 South African languages through the use of free interactive software and a range of educational resources.
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/ 11 December 2007
The guitar is slick, the bass and drums mesmerising, and if it weren’t for the lyrics, you would think the LeeVees were just another up-and-coming American rock band. But with lyrics that ponder what goes best with latkes — potato pancakes traditionally eaten at Hanukkah — or how to spell Hanukkah, the LeeVees position themselves squarely in the middle of a rising musical genre whose proponents call it new Jewish music.
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/ 10 December 2007
Is it just me, or has it become fashionable for people who hold official positions to speak or write in their personal capacities, even when they are expressing views about the things that are in their line of work? This is completely disingenuous. On the one hand it allows the beneficiaries of such talk to make whatever capital they can of the pronouncements, but disassociate themselves from them if they find infertile soil.
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/ 10 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>Mo Shaik is likely to play a central role in South African politics if Jacob Zuma becomes president. He has been part of a network of individuals who have run the Zuma campaign, turning it into the juggernaut which won five provinces, as well as the support of both ANC leagues and Umkhonto weSizwe veterans. Shaik spoke to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> editor Ferial Haffajee in a wide-ranging interview.
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/ 10 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>Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has finally thrown her weight behind President Thabo Mbeki, making up her mind at the last minute about which camp she will support in the upcoming ANC presidential elections. Both the Mbeki and the Zuma camps had tried to persuade her to join their side during the past few weeks and included her on their top-six lists.