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Municipal councillors are the servants of the people and not the bosses of the communities, Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi told party supporters in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, on Saturday. Buthelezi was speaking during the IFP’s local government election campaign in the province.
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The African Christian Democratic Party will on Monday approach the Constitutional Court over a ruling that disqualified it from contesting the local government elections in Cape Town. The ACDP was disqualified from contesting the March 1 elections after it did not include the metropole when it paid its election fees.
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Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon welcomed former New National Party (NNP) leader in the Free State Inus Aucamp into the party during a local government election rally in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Leon told about 800 supporters at the Oranje Girls High School his party is grateful and glad to have Aucamp in its ranks.
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African National Congress chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota warned Khutsong residents on Saturday afternoon that those who participate in ”destruction” in the area will be dealt with by police. Some community members threatened earlier this week to boycott the upcoming local government elections.
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President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday hailed the recent democratic elections in Haiti and presidential winner René Préval. However, Mbeki’s message said nothing about the future for Haiti’s former president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, who has been living in exile in South Africa for about two years.
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A Cape Town-based property magnate on Saturday criticised the proposed moratorium on the sale of South African land to foreigners. The Democratic Alliance also criticised the proposal on Friday, saying it could have profoundly negative economic consequences for South Africa.
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The entire Western Cape was without power early on Sunday and no trains were running following faults on transmission lines that were the result of misty conditions and residual pollution from recent fires, according to Eskom. Meanwhile, power failures also affected northern Johannesburg and most parts of Ekurhuleni.
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The world of professional flower growing is one dedicated to the pursuit of beauty. But it is also a world of rapacious piracy, as was revealed by a break-in at the offices of one of Italy’s most successful flower growers last week in which a computer containing the firm’s most closely guarded secrets was stolen.
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Search teams looking for the estimated 1 800 people missing after a landslide buried a village on Leyte island in the Philippines on Friday found only bodies, as rescuers warned there is now no hope of finding any more survivors from the mudslip that buried three farming villages, including Guinsaugon.
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A new Palestinian Parliament, dominated by the militant group Hamas, was sworn in on Saturday amid threats of an international boycott and domestic paralysis that could lead to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority. Israel has promised to enforce an economic blockade of Palestinian areas.