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No news would be good news for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma right now. But if he could choose, what model for a pan-African TV news channel would reduce his humiliation in the eyes of the continent?
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/ 7 December 2005
Zimbabwe Cricket chairperson Peter Chingoka and managing director Osias Bvute will be charged with contravening the Exchange Control Act, police said Wednesday. Chingoka and Bvute were arrested Tuesday and remain in police custody.
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/ 7 December 2005
Telkom congratulated its first and only competitor on Wednesday for completing the second network operator licensing process, saying it looked forward to the competition. A recent report said that about half of South Africa’s top 350 companies would consider switching to the SNO if it got off the ground.
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Jacob Zuma will be the African National Congress’ deputy president in name only until his rape trial is over, the party said on Wednesday following Zuma’s decision to suspend himself from leadership structures.
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/ 7 December 2005
The South African Competition Tribunal has, with a condition, ruled in favour of Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) in a deal that will see the investment firm increasing its stake in Johnnic Holdings. HCI owns a regional youth radio station Yfm, free-to-air e.tv and co-owns the two-year-old Tsogo Sun with Johnnic and SABMiller.
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The SA National Editors Forum was consulting editors and lawyers on Wednesday about the media’s exclusion from former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s rape hearing. Reporters were barred from the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, when Zuma was charged with rape. They were also not allowed immediate access to the docket.
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/ 7 December 2005
Despite its numerous sad revelations, Anne Schuster’s <i>Foolish Delusions</i>, is an absorbing read and a fine, multi-faceted achievement, writes Shirley Kossick.
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/ 7 December 2005
Eritrea has ordered the expulsion of United States, Canadian, Russian and other European staff of the United Nations peacekeeping mission that monitors the tense border with neighbouring Ethiopia, United Nations officials said on Wednesday. In a letter sent to the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the staff were told that they have 10 days to leave the Horn of Africa nation.
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/ 7 December 2005
In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness. A fitting name for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace.
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/ 7 December 2005
Saddam Hussein refused to attend his own trial in Baghdad on Wednesday morning after declaring he had been mistreated by an ”unjust court”, a court official said. The former Iraqi dictator was today talking to his defence lawyers about whether to return to the hearing.