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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe suggested on Wednesday his government would not tolerate protests against plans to extend his rule, saying such actions were being spearheaded by ”deranged” people. Mugabe spoke to journalists soon after swearing in new ministers following an overnight mini-reshuffle.
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/ 7 February 2007
The European Union has earmarked R9-billion in development funding for South Africa over the next seven years, EU ambassador to South Africa Lodewijk Briët announced on Wednesday. ”We want to work with South Africa to enhance its democratic roots … and to help South Africa and Southern Africa, and all of sub-Saharan Africa, to move ahead,” he said at a briefing in Cape Town.
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/ 7 February 2007
The eight men charged with contravening the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act by planning a coup in Equatorial Guinea pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday. The eight accused are part of a group of 61 who returned to South Africa in 2005 after spending more than a year in a Zimbabwean prison.
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/ 7 February 2007
A letter bomb exploded at Britain’s vehicle-licensing agency on Wednesday, injuring six people, in a spate of attacks targeting motoring-related organisations. Police said seven devices had been sent through the mail in the last three weeks, including three bombs in the last three days.
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/ 7 February 2007
Bok van Blerk’s song De la Rey is not nearly as ”potentially subversive as former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s song Umshini Wami, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Wednesday. The DA was reacting to a warning from the Department of Arts and Culture that De la Rey was in danger of being ”hijacked” by right wingers.
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/ 7 February 2007
About 20 of the 604 women who participated in microbicide clinical trials have tested HIV-positive, the South African Medical Research Council said on Wednesday. The health minister has requested an investigation by the research ethics council following concerns about the HIV status of the participants.
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/ 7 February 2007
The countrywide community survey that will collect geographic, social and economic data from 284 000 South African households got under way on Wednesday with no hitches, Statistics South Africa said. The survey will help assess the effect of socio-economic policies and measure municipal service delivery.
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/ 7 February 2007
An empowerment deal by electronics company Reunert that will see R465-million in shares allocated to four individuals has been labelled ”uncontrollable greed and gluttony” by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa. The union is also threatening protest action by its members against the company and its subsidiary.
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/ 7 February 2007
A multibillion-rand ferro-manganese smelter complex is to be constructed in the Coega industrial development zone, the Herald Online reported on Wednesday. It said the project would almost certainly mean a speedy upgrade of the railway link between Coega and the Northern Cape, where the manganese would be mined.
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/ 7 February 2007
A cholera outbreak in Somalia has killed more than 115 people and hospitalised 724, medical officers said on Wednesday, while the capital was hit by more violence. Tests conducted by international medical aid group Médecins sans Frontières confirmed the cholera outbreak in towns along the Shabelle River.