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/ 17 February 2006
The ANC in Kokstad’s Matatiele municipality has splintered over the government’s handling of the cross-border dispute in the area.
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/ 17 February 2006
Reminiscing on a 20-year political career, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Friday longed for the day when municipal councillors thrived on serving their constituencies. When he was elected to his first office in 1986, there were five words every councillor had to learn to keep voters happy: ”How can I help you?”, Leon said.
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/ 17 February 2006
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s holiday flight to the United Arab Emirates in December last year cost R519 857, according to Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota in reply to a parliamentary question. The flight came under fire from opposition parties in Parliament.
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/ 17 February 2006
Intense anger has erupted among academics after three major United States foundations pulled the plug on sponsorship of a conference to be held in Bellagio, Italy, after vigorous lobbying by pro-Israeli groups. The conference, organised by the American Association of University Professors, was to have debated academic boycotts.
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/ 17 February 2006
Hitomi Terada is in the mood to shop. The 18-year-old has no credit card and very little cash on her, but that doesn’t matter: all she needs to shop at her favourite mall is the cellphone that rarely leaves her sight. Two or three days later the goods arrive at her home, along with the bill, which she pays at her local post office.
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/ 17 February 2006
Dog breeders and foreigners moving to South Africa are barking mad at the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs after its officials destroyed or sent back their precious pets on the basis of a dodgy veterinary test. In the past four months, quarantine facilities have been crowded with dogs being brought into the country at great expense.
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/ 17 February 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s 10th Budget, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, reflects the correctness of the government’s economic policy path since coming to power in 1994, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. The president noted widespread praise in the media and elsewhere for the 2006/07 Budget.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Minority Front (MF) will only accept responsibility "for the conduct" of its member responsible for writing an MF advertorial described as "racist", said party leader Amichand Rajbansi on Friday. The controversial MF advertorial was published in the <i>Durban Chatsworth Tabloid</i>.
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/ 17 February 2006
Nigerian officials on Friday pressed on with mass poultry culling in the ravaged north to prevent bird flu from claiming human lives amid fears that the virus could have spread to yet another farm. Ali Hussani Dutsin-Ma, the top health official in the northern state of Katsina, said that the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus that can kill humans may have surfaced in a second farm near the state capital.
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/ 17 February 2006
A team of experts has located the ferry that sank this month in the Red Sea, killing about 1 000 people, an Egypt transportation ministry spokesperson said on Friday. The team found the Al-Salaam Boccaccio 98 on Thursday about 89km from the Egyptian port of Safaga at a depth of about 800m.