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An 18-year-old youth appeared in the Frankfort Magistrate’s Court on Thursday in connection with the rape of two French exchange students in December last year. The teenager from Namahali township in Frankfort faces two rape charges and remains in custody. Two other suspects are still at large.
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/ 2 February 2006
The housing shortfall in Alexandra, eastern Johannesburg, will be under the spotlight in the Pretoria High Court on March 6 when the Gauteng housing MEC gives evidence. ”I welcome the opportunity to present the department’s side of the story and the type of challenges we are facing in implementing the Alexandra Renewal Project,” said MEC Nomvula Mokonyane.
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/ 2 February 2006
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday officially launched what he called a ”landmark” anti-poverty plan that promises 100 days of work a year to every rural family in the country. ”The main focus of the scheme is the poorest of the poor,” Singh said, calling the initiative ”revolutionary”.
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/ 2 February 2006
Heavy shelling broke out for an hour on Thursday around Rutshuru in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, provoking panic and flight by local residents while the defence minister was in town. Rutshuru has been tense since rebel soldiers loyal to a renegade army general briefly took control of it on January 20.
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/ 2 February 2006
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and eight senior party officials were on Thursday deported from neighbouring Zambia. Spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said he thought the incident was ”politically motivated”. Chamisa dismissed a claim on Zimbabwean state radio that Tsvangirai and his delegation had violated Zambian immigration laws.
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/ 2 February 2006
The single wound which killed baby Jordan-Leigh Norton was applied with such force that it severed the trachea and left incisions on the vertebrae, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday. ”The cause of death was a penetrating, incisive wound to the neck and the consequences thereof,” testified Yolande van der Heyde, a forensic pathologist.
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/ 2 February 2006
President Thabo Mbeki’s ”failed promises” in finance, service delivery and health were the focus of opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon’s speech in Pretoria on Thursday. Leon cited power cuts, fuel shortages, and poor sanitation that led to a typhoid outbreak in Mpumalanga as examples of this decline.
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/ 2 February 2006
Mittal Steel chief executive Lakshmi Mittal said on Thursday that opposition to his hostile takeover bid for European steelmaker Arcelor could not weaken the "industrial logic" of his plan which would protect European jobs. The bid by Mittal would create by far the biggest steel group in the world, accounting for 10% share of global steel production.
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/ 2 February 2006
Royal Dutch Shell posted on Thursday net profit of $22,94-billion for 2005, the highest full-year profit figure in British corporate history, as the Anglo-Dutch energy group benefited from record oil prices. Net profit, excluding gains from the value of its crude oil inventories, soared by 30% last year compared with a profit of $17,595-billion in 2004.
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Almost half of the Pan Africanist Congress’ municipal election candidates for the Cape Town metro have been disqualified because of inadequate documentation. PAC leader Motsoko Pheko said on Thursday that 23 of the 76 candidates had been rejected by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).