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/ 12 September 2006
South African authorities have launched an investigation into the 1981 disappearance of President Thabo Mbeki’s son, who is believed to have been killed by agents of the apartheid-era government. ”We will conduct our own investigation,” Makhosini Nkosi, spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), said.
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/ 12 September 2006
The 2010 Soccer World Cup is going to stretch South Africa’s transport capacity to its limits, Parliament’s portfolio committees on sport, recreation and transport heard on Tuesday. Briefing MPs on his department’s Transport Action Plan, the deputy director general of integrated planning, Mathabatha Makonyama, said the event would require 60 trains, about 2Â 400 buses and at least 6Â 000 minibus taxis.
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/ 12 September 2006
At least 50 people were killed and 100 hurt in a stampede on Tuesday at a stadium in southern Yemen during an election rally by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a week ahead of polls already marred by violence. The victims were crushed to death when tens of thousands of people tried to gain entry into the sports stadium at the town of Ibb, witnesses said.
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/ 12 September 2006
An Iraqi Kurd told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial on Tuesday how his mother and sisters’ remains were found in a mass grave more than 200km from their village. A defiant Saddam defended his policy of crushing Kurdish rebels and shouted before the judge cut his microphone: ”You are agents of Iran and Zionism. We will crush your heads!”
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/ 12 September 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) pledged its support for the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions’ (ZCTU) planned mass protests in that country on Wednesday. Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said the ZCTU wanted to ”show government and employers that workers have gone this far with their suffering and cannot go any further”.
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/ 12 September 2006
A Johannesburg woman accused of reporting a hoax hijacking was granted bail of R3 000 by the Booysens Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Mapitso Lutricia Mekhoe was arrested after claiming robbers took her daughter when they hijacked her Toyota bakkie on Sunday.
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/ 12 September 2006
South Africa’s manufacturing output expanded at a slower rate in the year to July but growth remained robust, suggesting rising interest rates may not stifle growth in Africa’s biggest economy. Production rose by an unadjusted 5,8% in volume terms in the year to July, slowing from an upwardly revised increase of 6,3% in June.
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/ 12 September 2006
The United Nations genocide tribunal for Rwanda on Tuesday acquitted a former Rwandan mayor accused of crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the country’s 1994 ethnic massacres. Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found Jean Mpambara innocent of all three charges he had faced.
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/ 12 September 2006
President Robert Mugabe’s government said on Tuesday it was ready to talk with Zimbabwean unions over their social grievances, but renewed its vow to stop nationwide street protests planned for Wednesday. The opposition-allied Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called for the demonstrations to protest poor wages and workers’ lack of access to antiretroviral drugs.
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/ 12 September 2006
The Correctional Services department’s efforts to establish the prevalence of HIV/Aids in prisons is being hamstrung by a lack of co-operation from staff and inmates alike, it emerged on Tuesday. The department’s survey was launched last year with a pilot project in Gauteng, and was completed on May 24 this year.