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/ 5 February 2007
Zimbabwe’s white commercial farmers expressed relief on Monday after the government made good on its pledge to allow them to harvest their crops before evicting them. President Robert Mugabe’s government had given white farmers, and an unspecified number of black people illegally occupying farms, until February 3 to vacate their land.
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/ 5 February 2007
North Korea heads into talks with the region’s main powers this week with signs the impoverished state may be ready to agree to an initial deal over demands it stop building a nuclear arsenal in exchange for aid. But diplomats and analysts say there is no chance the North will agree to completely give up its atomic weaponry at the six-way talks.
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/ 5 February 2007
The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has asked the Public Protector, advocate Lawrence Mushwana, to investigate allegations in the German publication, Der Spiegel, that former state employee and chief of acquisitions for the arms deal Chippy Shaik received a -million bribe from arms manufacturer ThyssenKrupp.
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/ 5 February 2007
The Johannesburg Metrobus strike will go to the Labour Court, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said on Monday. Spokesperson Dumisani Langa said Samwu had received papers from the City of Johannesburg on Monday, giving notice of an urgent application to the Labour Court against Metrobus and Samwu.
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/ 5 February 2007
The United Democratic Party (UDM) will not be participating in this year’s State of the Nation debate unless it is allocated reasonable time to raise its supporters’ issues, the party’s leader, Bantu Holomisa, said on Monday. According to the UDM leader, Parliament on Monday informed him that his party has been given only one minute to participate in the debate scheduled to take place on Friday.
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/ 5 February 2007
A trio of top European Union officials was in Moscow on Monday to try to bridge the gap between Russia and the European Union over the future of Kosovo. The EU foreign-policy officials will also touch on Russia’s role as an energy supplier, and a Russian ban on imports of Polish meat that has frozen talks on an EU-Russian partnership agreement.
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/ 5 February 2007
Pope Benedict was baptised at birth and will most likely be baptised again one year after his death, not by his Roman Catholic Church but by a Mormon he never met. The Mormons, a United States-based denomination officially named the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, encourage members to baptise the dead by proxy.
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/ 5 February 2007
A Durban metro policeman riding a motorcycle was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident after he was allegedly forced off the road by a minibus taxi on Monday. A spokesperson for ER24, the national medical-care network, said the policeman had lost a foot.
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/ 5 February 2007
Almost 35% of the total South African personal income of R1,232-billion accrued to Gauteng in 2006, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 16,3% and the Western Cape with 14,7%, a new report showed on Monday. Gauteng led the pack despite the 2005 boundary changes that favoured the Northern Cape.
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/ 5 February 2007
The JSE was in negative territory at midday on Monday after a pull-back in Asian markets encouraged profit-taking locally. Metals prices’ failure to react to a rally in the oil price saw gold and platinum stocks under pressure. By 12.01pm, the all-share and all-share industrial indices shed 0,61% and 0,69% respectively.