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/ 31 January 2007
The Sunday newspaper market is set for a shake-up as Media 24 plans to launch a new Afrikaans tabloid called Sondag in May. ”We saw a gap in the market and we thought we’d fill it up rather than leave it for somebody else to fill,” says Sondag editor Mike Vink.
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/ 31 January 2007
Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chávez, was on Wednesday poised to gain extended powers allowing him to make sweeping changes as he seeks to transform Venezuelan society. MPs were scheduled to formally grant Chávez the authority to enact measures by presidential decree during an outdoor meeting at the Plaza Bolivar.
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/ 30 January 2007
Provincial health departments in the nine provinces of the country are in a state of paralysis due to corruption and neglect, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. ”A DA analysis of the nine provincial health departments reveals a pattern of neglect, mismanagement and blatant corruption,” DA health spokesperson Gareth Morgan said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 January 2007
The company that will build the Gautrain rapid rail link between Pretoria and Johannesburg has secured a R3-billion loan for the project, it said on Tuesday. ”All of the checks and balances had to be in place before financial close,” said Denis Bouvette, chief executive of the Bombela Concession Company.
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/ 30 January 2007
Pleas for his resignation by protesters singing insults at the trial of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma were his ”worst moment” in three years as spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority, Makhosini Nkosi said on Tuesday. The attacks became personal and worrying when people started saying ”nasty things” to his family, he said.
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/ 30 January 2007
Gunmen shot dead a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and the Islamist group blamed a Fatah-dominated security service for the first killing in the territory since a ceasefire went into effect overnight. Hospital officials in the southern town of Khan Younis said Hussein Shabasi was shot in the head.
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/ 30 January 2007
A 17-year-old stowaway found dead in the wheel well of a British Airways (BA) plane in Los Angeles is a South African citizen, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. ”We have now confirmed that the stowaway who was found in possession of South African documentation was indeed a South African citizen,” said spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa.
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/ 30 January 2007
A joint committee has been set up to further discuss whether names of South African Defence Force (SADF) soldiers killed in the apartheid era should be included on the wall of names in Freedom Park. On the agenda will be defining what the SADF was, collecting names of SADF soldiers and discussing concerns regarding the portrayal of history at Freedom Park.
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/ 30 January 2007
South Africa’s Aids epidemic, often regarded by health workers as a disease of the poor, is in fact spreading quickly among the country’s richest and best-educated people, researchers said on Tuesday. A study shows a rapid increase in HIV infections in professional people and those with full-time employment — both key to South Africa’s hopes to spur economic development.