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/ 18 October 2007
On April 27 1968 the vice-president, Hubert Humphrey, announced his presidential candidacy. It was a particularly troubled moment in the United States’s recent history. Just three weeks after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the cities were still scarred by riots while the country as a whole was deeply divided over the Vietnam war.
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/ 18 October 2007
The disgraced and sacked former ANC chief whip and sex pest, Mbulelo Goniwe, is being “protected” by a long and protracted disciplinary process so that he can attend the national conference in Polekwane as an ANC member, party insiders say. Goniwe, one of President Thabo Mbeki’s strongest allies, was expelled from the ANC last year after the party’s national disciplinary committee, headed by Kader Asmal, found him guilty of sexual harassment.
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/ 18 October 2007
Film director Francis Ford Coppola has attacked three of the biggest stars in Hollywood, denouncing them for being lazy and uninterested in taking risks. Coppola told GQ magazine that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro — both in his Godfather trilogy — and Jack Nicholson had been spoilt by success and lost the fire that had made them raging bulls.
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/ 17 October 2007
A ruling by a full bench of the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday put another nail in the coffin of Afrikaans-only education in state schools. The court dismissed with costs a review application by Hoërskool Ermelo to set aside a decision forcing it to admit English-speaking pupils and become a parallel-medium school.
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/ 17 October 2007
The wife of President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday unveiled a new statue of anti-apartheid leader Oliver Tambo in the north London suburb where he was exiled for 30 years. Zanele Mbeki joined Britain’s Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, and other dignitaries to take the wraps off the bust in a park in Muswell Hill, near where Tambo lived from 1960 to 1990.
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/ 17 October 2007
South Africa must do more to raise awareness of HIV/Aids amid rising child deaths and over one million children orphaned by the disease, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said Wednesday. ”Each year, 100Â 000 children contract Aids in South Africa, and half of them die before the age of two,” Unicef’s representative in the country, Macharia Kamau, said.
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/ 17 October 2007
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota’s ”hostility” towards the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was reflected in his ”ignorance” of its policies, presented as an alternative to those of the government, Cosatu said on Wednesday. Lekota had challenged Cosatu in a radio broadcast to ”present alternative policy positions to those of the ruling party”.
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/ 17 October 2007
The United Nations World Food Programme on Wednesday condemned the killing of three of its truck drivers in the violence-stricken western Sudanese region of Darfur. Two of the men were killed on Tuesday in south Darfur as they were returning from delivering supplies near the scene of an attack on an African Union base.
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/ 17 October 2007
Oil marched to a new peak of a barrel on Wednesday as investors fretted over possible military action in northern Iraq and a potential supply crunch this winter. Turkey’s Parliament on Wednesday granted its troops permission to launch an attack inside Iraqi territory, despite international pressure not to.
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/ 17 October 2007
The multimillion-rand cost of fighting the Richtersveld land claim was money well spent, the Department of Public Enterprises said on Wednesday. It was responding to a query on the final legal bill for the case, which was settled last week.