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/ 15 October 2007
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Sunday announced that he would not be available for re-election in 2009. Delivering his keynote address during the party’s general conference in Ulundi, Buthelezi unexpectedly told delegates that he would step down in 2009.
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/ 15 October 2007
Americans are used to pawning the silverware for a couple of tickets to the Super Bowl or the upcoming World Series, but 500 for a performance of Shakespeare? That is the price set on eBay for a couple of tickets for King Lear, which opens at UCLA’s Royce Hall theatre in Los Angeles on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Tehran as planned on Monday evening, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said, after reports about a possible plot to assassinate him during his visit for a Caspian Sea summit. Iran has dismissed as baseless reports of a possible plan to kill Putin, branding the allegation as ”pyschological warfare” calculated by Tehran’s enemies.
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/ 15 October 2007
A lawyer for Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker has said they would hand themselves over to police in Cape Town this week, instead of waiting to be arrested for the alleged possession of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s medical records.
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/ 15 October 2007
Uganda’s top negotiator in peace talks with the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting that the government will ask the Hague-based International Criminal Court to drop arrest warrants against the rebels’ top commanders only after the LRA renounces its insurgency.
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/ 15 October 2007
The Airports Company South Africa has spoken out about the "challenges" presented by the construction industry. In its annual report, presented to Parliament, the company complained about the construction skills shortage, long lead times for material supplies, rapidly escalating costs because of capacity constraints and a tender environment that favours contractors.
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/ 15 October 2007
Whenever a head of state or government faces trial these days, human rights activists say the event is unprecedented. Slobodan Milosevic’s trial was "ground-breaking"; the conviction of Jean Kambanda of Rwanda was "historic"; the trial of Charles Taylor of Liberia was "a break with the past".
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/ 15 October 2007
Centuries of troubles have bobbed on the waves off the Mosquito Coast: Christopher Columbus, the Spanish conquest, pirates, slave ships. For the fishing villages scattered across these remote central American shores there was seldom reason to welcome visits from the outside world.
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/ 15 October 2007
The failing education system is creating a talent crisis that will only get worse as South Africa becomes a recipient of further foreign fixed investment. These are the findings of the Global Talent index, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit and international executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.
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/ 15 October 2007
The state of the South African breast is not good. Mammography is not generally available to the poor and breast cancer has become the second-biggest killer of black women. There will be about 1,25-million new cases of breast cancer diagnosed this year in the world. The life-time risk for getting breast cancer is now between one in 10 and one in seven, writes Paul Sneider.