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The gloves are really off. A campaign to ”set the record straight about Jacob Zuma” is central to a fight-back plan by President Thabo Mbeki’s strategists, aimed at giving him a third term as party leader at the Polokwane conference. The campaign is set to resurrect Zuma’s links with fraud convict Schabir Shaik, and his controversial rape trial.
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/ 30 November 2007
Loyiso Gola’s humour lies in a place between how the world perceives him and how he perceives the world, writes Gerrard Foster.
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/ 30 November 2007
A new exhibition of lamps casts a gentle glow on South Africa’s history, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 30 November 2007
The decision to scrap the system of selling a hardback a year before releasing the paperback has created waves in the publishing world, writes Robert Booth.
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/ 30 November 2007
Authorities arrested more people on Friday after car bombs were found near the offices of Iraqi politician Adnan al-Dulaimi. Dulaimi said United States and Iraqi troops held 43 people in raids on his Baghdad office and home after discovering two primed car bombs nearby.
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/ 30 November 2007
The Kremlin is planning to rig the results of Russia’s parliamentary elections on Sunday by forcing millions of public sector workers across the country to vote, the <i>Guardian</i> has reported. Local administration officials have called in thousands of staff on their day off in an attempt to engineer a massive and inflated victory for President Vladimir Putin.
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/ 30 November 2007
Zimbabwe’s finance minister proposed cutting taxes for the growing number of poor, increasing taxes on some manufacturers and cracking down on the black market as cures for his nation’s economic crisis. Samuel Mumbengegwi’s budget speech on Thursday was televised — but unavailable to many because of power failures.
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/ 30 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki will receive an African Union report into the country’s governance standards on Wednesday next week, the Ministry of Public Service and Administration said on Friday. Mbeki had to postpone a handover ceremony at his office on Thursday because of other urgent government matters.
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Nationwide Airlines said on Friday that all its domestic and international flights had been grounded by the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, but did not know how long the ban would last. Nationwide’s spokesperson Rodger Whittle said he did not anticipate that grounding would be a ”long situation”.
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/ 30 November 2007
Two players from Australia’s Western Force Super 14 club have been disciplined after mishandling small animals during a team bonding session. Scott Fava and Richard Brown were fined and ordered to undergo counselling for alcohol abuse after being found guilty of handling quokkas, a rare Australian marsupial.