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/ 16 November 2007
Mutual & Federal will meet the National Guild of Independent Auto-Body Repairers to determine its concerns, the insurer’s CEO, Keith Kennedy, said on Friday. This follows a panel beaters’ march to the short-term insurance company’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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Reports that Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has entered the African National Congress (ANC) succession debate are devoid of truth, her spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Friday. The incorrect impression followed an interview she had with radio station Kaya FM on Thursday.
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/ 16 November 2007
A Pretoria High Court judge has reserved judgement in the Mail & Guardian‘s legal challenge of a controversial 2005 report by Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana about his investigation into the Oilgate scandal. The M&G wants to have the report overturned and rewritten.
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/ 16 November 2007
The late Norman Mailer was the pioneer and prophet of a culture in which fact and imagination overlapped, writes Mark Lawson.
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/ 16 November 2007
Bones were found in a field in Modimolle on Friday after 200 police officers searched for the bodies of children who have been missing from the area since 2004, Limpopo police said. ”We are not sure if the bones belong to one of the missing children, or if they are human,” said a police spokesperson.
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/ 16 November 2007
KwaZulu-Natal’s Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader on Friday apologised to the province’s Premier, S’bu Ndebele, over comments he made about the permier’s alleged conflicting business interests. Shortly after the original statement was issued, Ndebele had threatened to sue Mtshali for defamation.
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/ 16 November 2007
A group of armed robbers held up a staff member and fled with an undisclosed amount of money at the well-known Moyo restaurant at Zoo Lake in Johannesburg, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Julia Claasen said that on Thursday night, one of the robbers went into the restaurant, sat at the bar and ordered drinks.
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/ 16 November 2007
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s largest economies gather in Kleinmond in the southern Cape this weekend for a meeting of the Group of 20 countries. The event is described by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel as probably the most significant gathering of economic policymakers seen to date in South Africa.
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Five people were injured when an Airbus A340-600 carrying out a ground engine test in France slammed into a wall, the company said on Friday in a press statement. Of those injured, three remained in hospital on Friday. Nine people were taken to hospital to be examined after the accident, which took place late on Thursday.
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/ 16 November 2007
Writing in his weekly newsletter on the African National Congress website, President Thabo Mbeki on Friday railed against the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) for making ”the startling claim” that more South Africans are now poorer than they were in 1996. The SAIRR, in turn, defended itself in a statement released later in the day.