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/ 3 February 2006
Sandi Majali’s controversial R65 000 loan for the renovation of Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya’s home was made only four weeks after a consortium, IT Lynx — of which he was a part — demanded that Skweyiya award it a stalled R400‑million tender. This new evidence casts doubt on Majali’s earlier excuse that he had no motive to try to bribe Skweyiya.
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/ 3 February 2006
The South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco), a long-standing but lately dormant ally of the African National Congress, has made a political intervention that seeks a constitutional amendment to allow President Thabo Mbeki to serve a third term as the country’s president.
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/ 3 February 2006
South African homeowners are rushing to get a free property evaluation courtesy of a new online automated valuation website.Jose Rodrigues, MD of Cerno Cubed, the company behind the website, says the Real Estate Evaluation Portal is one of the most popular websites in South Africa.
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/ 3 February 2006
The manne would like to congratulate African National Congress Youth League President Fikile Beebopaloola on his unanimous re-election as President of the International Union of Socialist Youth at its congress in Denmark a fortnight ago. They would also like to ask him if this august appointment is what’s persuaded him to start using the royal plural in his online briefies.
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/ 3 February 2006
Abducting oil workers for ransom has become so common in Nigeria that beer mats in expatriate bars read, "Eat a lot — fat people are harder to kidnap". But for the four foreign hostages released unharmed earlier this week, the ordeal was no laughing matter. The group succumbed to malaria and was held for three weeks.
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/ 3 February 2006
Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni kept interest rates unchanged, with the repo rate at 7% and in turn a prime rate of 10,5%. And this week the JSE breached the magical level of 20 000 points, and factories showed signs of bleeding because of the strong rand.
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/ 3 February 2006
President Thabo Mbeki presents an extraordinary State of the Nation address this year: he is politically weaker than he has ever been, and paradoxically, because of the economy, stronger too. In this context, he should ditch the usual format of his address, lose the PowerPoint presentation of numbers of homes electrified, jobs created and promises kept to focus on the genuine state of the nation.
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/ 3 February 2006
How easily we forget what makes the present. In the current conflict between Ashwin Desai and Malegapuru Makgoba, old angers take their revenge under cover of procedural technicalities and formal institutional codes. Ten years ago, a similar fight was unfolding at the University of Witwatersrand. Only then, Makgoba was under attack.
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/ 3 February 2006
As revelations about a multimillion-dollar scam involving the Anglo Leasing and Finance company riveted public attention in Kenya , a report about investigations into the country’s biggest corruption scandal to date was gathering dust in an office at State House.
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/ 3 February 2006
In this new landscape, everyone is in the dark. After Hamas won an enormous victory that shocked even them, all the players in the Middle East conflict are stumbling around, unsure how to negotiate the new terrain. No one knows quite what to do.