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The Freedom Front Plus has lodged criminal charges in Pretoria/Tshwane against the official opposition Democratic Alliance over what it regards as the spreading of ”false information” through the broadcasting of a DA advertisement for the local government election.
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Nigerian separatist guerrillas taunted the army with claims of further attacks on Monday after a weekend of violence forced energy giant Shell to slash the country’s oil exports by a fifth. There was still no news of nine foreign oil workers seized by the gang on Saturday.
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The United States ambassador to Iraq warned Iraqi politicians on Monday they risk a loss of American support if they do not establish a genuine national unity government, saying the US will not invest its resources in institutions run by sectarians. Meanwhile, at least 24 people were killed by bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere.
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Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu launched a R400-million housing project at Olievenhoutbosch, south-west of Pretoria, on Monday. ”This project will provide decent homes for many low-income people and the poor. We will build on this partnership until all informal settlements are eradicated by 2014,” Sisulu said.
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Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal charges of denying the Holocaust and conceded in court he erred in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz. ”I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz,” Irving told the court as his trial opened in Vienna.
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The South African Police Service and the Zion Christian Church in the Vhembe district of Limpopo last year joined forces on a project that claims to have reduced rape in the area by 7%. But social workers at four local victim empowerment projects say they have never heard of the project and other groups argue that the figures are higher than statistics suggest.
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More than a year after two damning reports of financial mismanagement at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), potentially costing R150-million, no action has been taken against the senior staffers indicted in the report. In fact, Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza stepped in to reverse the suspension of the ARC’s chief financial officer, Lazarus Gopane.
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Transnet’s strike badly affected Metrorail in Gauteng but left the company’s other operations in the country unaffected, the firm said on Monday. Metrorail, one of Transnet’s divisions, was, ”as expected”, affected by the first of day of strike, which left only a handful of trains operating in central Gauteng during peak hour on Monday.
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The blame for power cuts that hit large parts of the country over the weekend and continue in the Western Cape lies squarely with Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks and the African National Congress, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. The Western Cape, including Cape Town, was without power for most of Sunday.
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It is not every day that the president visits your house, but for Sandra and Beauty Maluleka the moment was so big they believe he ”cured” Beauty’s sickness. President Thabo Mbeki was electioneering in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, where introduced voters to the African National Congress candidates in their wards.