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/ 17 February 2006
An escort-agency owner who murdered his sister-in-law and her husband, and then carried on with his life for three years before his wife exposed him, was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment on Friday. Abraham Carel Koekemoer (49) did not show much emotion after being sentenced for the December 2002 murders.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has singled out President Thabo Mbeki and Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang for criticism in a hard-hitting report to the African Peer Review Mechanism lashing the government’s response to the Aids pandemic. ”There has been a lack of leadership from the highest political level,” the TAC said.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s Durban district chairperson, James Maphalala, who was also an eThekwini municipal councillor, has died at his home in Lindelani, KwaZulu-Natal, after a long illness, the IFP said on Friday. IFP deputy national chairperson Velaphi Ndlovu expressed condolences to Maphalala’s family.
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/ 17 February 2006
Transnet will consider a proposal for mediation in the ongoing dispute with labour over the restructuring of the parastatal, a spokesperson said on Friday. John Dludlu said the company has informed the four labour unions involved in the dispute that it will consider their proposal for mediation as early as this weekend.
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/ 17 February 2006
Pakistan’s ambassador to Denmark has been called back to Islamabad ”for consultations” amid a continuing row over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the foreign office said on Friday. The move comes shortly after officials said that Denmark had temporarily closed its embassy in Islamabad.
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/ 17 February 2006
About 200 people were believed killed and 1 500 others were missing in the central Philippines on Friday when a landslide buried an entire village, the Red Cross said. The first footage from the devastated village showed a sea of mud covering what had been lush green valley farmland.
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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
Residents expressed their disgust at the incorporation decision and told the Mail & Guardian they would resist the move to the bitter end.
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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.