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/ 31 January 2007
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has been voted Newsmaker of the Year for 2006 by the National Press Club, Pretoria. Zille had regularly made the headlines, press club chairperson Patrick Hlahla said on Wednesday. ”Following the municipal elections in March, she eventually became mayor after deals with smaller political parties,” he said.
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/ 31 January 2007
A R50-million biomass fuel-pellet project has been launched at the Coega Industrial Development Zone near Port Elizabeth, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Wednesday. The plant is expected to create thousands of jobs when it starts production in July.
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/ 31 January 2007
Zimbabwean university student Tinashe Rioga, who allegedly tried to hijack a South African Airways (SAA) flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg last year, was on Wednesday declared unfit to stand trial in terms of the Mental Disorders Act. The order was made by magistrate Johan Vermaak when Rioga appeared in the Bellville Regional Court.
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/ 31 January 2007
Teazers former co-owner Michael Jackson received psychiatric therapy after a street child was allegedly murdered outside the nightclub’s Cape Town premises, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday. Jackson (45) is accused of murdering Xolani Zodwana, who was shot dead between 5am and 6am on a Saturday in May 2004.
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/ 31 January 2007
President Robert Mugabe’s government should immediately sell more than a dozen state firms to help raise money for the embattled economy, Zimbabwe’s central bank governer said on Wednesday. The privatisation of loss-making state firms would yield up to -billion this year, easing a foreign-currency crunch, Gideon Gono said in a monetary policy statement.
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/ 31 January 2007
Iran, accused by some Western nations of seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, on Wednesday denied a British newspaper report that North Korea was giving it technical help to fulfil its ambition. The United Nations Security Council voted to ban military supplies and weapons shipments to North Korea after Pyongyang carried out its first nuclear test in October.
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/ 31 January 2007
Business against Crime project manager Alan McKenzie was shot at the home of a family member in Table View, Cape Town police said on Wednesday. Captain Randall Stoffels said McKenzie (56) was shot four times by five armed men who entered the house after 10pm on Tuesday. McKenzie attempted to overpower one of the men, while a second man held others in the house at gunpoint.
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/ 31 January 2007
Somali lawmakers on Wednesday elected a former warlord as their new speaker, two weeks after firing his predecessor for brokering unauthorised peace talks with an Islamist movement. A day after President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed sought to rally support behind his embattled government, the MPs overwhelmingly endorsed Justice Minister Aden Mohamed Nur.
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/ 31 January 2007
South Africa has been informed that more South Africans are to be listed on the United Nations Security Council list of terror suspects, Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday. Pahad did not say which UN member country was planning the listing, when it would be done or how many South Africans would be listed.
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/ 31 January 2007
One of Zimbabwe’s foremost stone sculptors, Damian Manhuhwa, died from complications from a kidney ailment on January 23, friends and colleagues said. He was 54. Manhuhwa died at the main hospital in Harare and was buried on January 26 in his home area in the Rusape district, 170km east of the Zimbabwean capital.