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/ 13 October 2005
The Cabinet voiced concern on Wednesday at public displays of anger at President Thabo Mbeki at the corruption court appearance of his dismissed deputy Jacob Zuma this week. Concern was expressed about the burning of T-shirts displaying Mbeki’s picture and insults directed at him, a government spokesperson said.
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/ 13 October 2005
Scorpions head Leonard McCarthy told the Khampepe commission on Wednesday it would be a ”nightmare” to relocate the unit and it should be left in place and enhanced by legislation. ”The DSO [Directorate of Special Operations] is a good institution,” he told the commission on its eighth day of public hearings.
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/ 13 October 2005
Giant mining group Anglo American warned on Wednesday that South Africa’s plans to increase the supply of diamonds to local cutters and polishers would affect employment, growth and investment in the sector. Anglo American spoke during public hearings in Parliament on the proposed Diamond Amendment Bill.
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/ 13 October 2005
A strong aftershock shook Pakistan on Thursday, rattling the nerves of those who lived through last weekend’s devastating earthquake and bringing an even greater sense of urgency to efforts to find survivors under the precarious rubble. The death toll is believed to be more than 35 000.
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/ 13 October 2005
Aziz Khan pushed impatiently through the crowd outside Mansehra hospital, gripping his blood-splattered son Javed by the hand. Moments later, the 11-year-old boy was lying on the emergency-room table, a bare metal bed frame in a chaotic room filled with quake victims and littered with bloodied swabs.
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/ 13 October 2005
Osama bin Laden’s deputy has sent a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the militant leader in Iraq, setting out a blueprint for taking control of the country when American troops leave, according to United States intelligence officials. The plans are set out in a 6 000-word letter dated July 9 this year.
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/ 13 October 2005
South African resources companies Anglo American and Kumba Resources on Thursday announced a major black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction that will result in the establishment of the country’s largest black-owned, -controlled and -managed company with an enterprise value of about R16-billion.
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/ 13 October 2005
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/ 13 October 2005
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany on Wednesday announced he is bowing out of public life and said he will not serve in a ”grand coalition” under Angela Merkel, despite earlier speculation he might stay on as foreign minister. ”I will not belong to the next government, definitely not,” said an emotional Schröder.
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/ 12 October 2005
A groundbreaking gender equality training course for local government officials has wrapped up in Johannesburg. ”The course was the first of its kind in South Africa and the region involving gender and local government,” said Colleen Lowe Morna, director of Gender Links, the NGO headquartered in Johannesburg that organised the training.