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The Supreme Court of Appeal was expected to hear argument in an appeal by Auditor General Shauket Fakie on Wednesday against a high court ruling that he was in contempt of court in a matter related to the multibillion-rand arms deal. Fakie appealed against a Pretoria High Court judgement that he had failed to comply with a court order to give CCII Systems certain documents pertaining to the government’s arms procurement process.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party does not play the political games of power and patronage that are ”known to be part and parcel of the politics of the Western Cape”, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi told a campaign meeting in the Cape Town suburb of Hanover Park on Tuesday evening.
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/ 14 February 2006
A loan allegedly made by Imvume Management head Sandi Majali to the wife of a Cabinet minister should be probed by the police as it might be a criminal offence, the Public Protector said on Tuesday. He did not have the powers to conduct criminal investigations or prosecute guilty parties, the office of the protector, Lawrence Mushwana, said in a statement.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Tuesday sternly rebuked both sides fighting in the brutal civil war in Sudan’s war torn region of Darfur and demanded that peace talks be speeded up. Straw told delegates to Africa Union-sponsored peace talks in Abuja that they had failed to live up to their promises.
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A kaleidoscope of white butterflies, like cherry blossoms, have been wafting over Johannesburg this week, caused by the recent rains. Professor Graham Alexander, a zoology lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the butterflies, commonly known as the "brown-veined white" or <i>Belenois aurota aurota</i>, take wing when their population level rises.
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/ 14 February 2006
Inside a gloomy tower block on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow a team of young computer programmers is deep in concentration. In a former life it was a nuclear research facility at the heart of the Cold War. Now this dark skyscraper is home to a different kind of power struggle.
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The jailing of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s son Omri has further thickened the stench of corruption in Israel, where the public has grown weary of political scandal in the newspaper headlines. Omri, a former MP, was handed a nine-month sentence over a string of charges linked to his father’s leadership campaign just a day after another MP was found guilty of corruption.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Monday morning told supporters he would be back in court on March 6. He was addressing a crowd of supporters outside the Johannesburg High Court where Judge Ezra Goldstein had postponed proceedings to give the defence more time to prepare for Zuma’s rape trial.
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Voter turnout could be as high as 60% in the March 1 local government elections, a Human Sciences Research Council study has found. There was a 49% poll turnout in the 1995/96 local government election, and a 48% turnout in the 2000 local government election.
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Inflation in Zimbabwe soared to 613% in January, the state Central Statistical Office said on Tuesday. Inflation hit a record 623% in early 2004. Last month, the central bank predicted it would reach 800% by March, the highest rate in the world. The highest price increases recorded during the year were for postal services, up 3 000%, bicycles, 2 687%, and medicines, 1 367%.