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/ 13 January 2006
Petro Props, developers of a Sasol filling station in Libradene on the East Rand, intends to apply for an urgent high court order on Tuesday to stop the whistle-blower, Nicole Barlow, from interfering with the development. If the action succeeds, Barlow could also face a damages claim of millions of rand.
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/ 13 January 2006
The United States and Europe formally declared an end on Thursday to two-and-a-half years of negotiations over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme and pledged to take the Iranians before the United Nations security council. Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, said the Iranians had crossed a threshold by their ”dangerous defiance of the entire international community”.
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/ 13 January 2006
The African National Congress is facing internal rebellion in some of its traditional strongholds ahead of the local government election. A growing number of party members in at least three provinces have indicated they will break ranks and stand as independent candidates.
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/ 13 January 2006
Hot on the heels of a Competition Commission finding that South African car prices are on average 14% more expensive than in Europe, the motor industry this week announced record vehicle sales last year of more than 600 000 units for the first time — R125-billion in total sales.
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/ 13 January 2006
At least 345 Muslim pilgrims were trampled to death on Thursday as they tripped over luggage in a scramble to hurl pebbles at symbols of Satan during the annual pilgrimage, Saudi officials said. It was the latest in a succession of stampede tragedies to hit the hajj pilgrimage despite efforts by Saudi authorities to avoid a repeat of disasters like the one that killed 1Â 426 people in 1990.
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/ 13 January 2006
The future of Western Cape Democratic Alliance leader Theuns Botha hangs in the balance after a bitter struggle over the mayoral candidate, Helen Zille. Only a win for his party in Cape Town and other Western Cape mayoral races in March will save his political bacon. While the party is now focused on getting Zille’s campaign into top gear the signs of a bloody battle ahead remain.
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/ 13 January 2006
After a year dominated by tsunamis, earthquakes and conflict, the small West African country of Liberia is seen as an unusual success story. The civil war was ended by international intervention, orderly and transparent elections were held and Africa’s first woman president was elected on a mandate of popular reform.
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/ 13 January 2006
Never a laughing matter in Greece, death is even more grave for the country’s non-Orthodox communities, whose shortage of sanctioned burial grounds has long been compounded by legal restrictions. "Discrimination against non-Orthodox believers in Greece also applies in cases of death," says Dede Abdulhalim, an activist of the Muslim minority.
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/ 13 January 2006
The far-flung jihadist movement, much like the United States-led world economy it seeks to disrupt, is undergoing a rapid globalisation, evolving into a nebulous and loosely knit network more dangerous than what remains of al-Qaeda, international security experts say.
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/ 13 January 2006
The mind boggles at the sometimes extra- ordinary advice South Africa’s so-called whites are being given about how to make it in the New South Africa. There have been caring suggestions even from a highly paid senior academic (well, he is employed at a university) from KwaZulu-Natal.