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Apartheid-era defence minister Magnus Malan has joined former South African Defence Force chief Constand Viljoen in denying any knowledge of mass graves found near a former South African military base in northern Namibia. Two mass graves have been found near Eenhana, 850km north-east of Windhoek.
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Parastatal arms manufacturer Denel on Monday posted a R1,6-billion loss for the financial year ended March 31. ”The board believes there are adequate funding facilities to meet the group’s immediate future obligations,” Denel said in a statement released after its annual general meeting.
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Eritrea on Monday denied reports by the United Nations that it has been moving troops near its tense border with Ethiopia, a move that has increased tension between the Horn of Africa foes. ”It is not true at all that there is an Eritrean troop movement,” Information Minister Ali Abdu said.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has criticised the Sunday Times for publishing rape claims from ”faceless sources” against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”There can be no worse violation of human rights than this,” Cosatu said.
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French artist Raymond Hains, a member of the new-realism movement who was famous for his shredded posters, has died at age 78, French officials said. Hains banded together with leading artists, including Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely and Arman, to found new realism in 1960.
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Graham Payn, a South African-born singer and actor who was a post-war fixture in London’s West End, has died, agents for the estate of Payn’s long-time companion, Noël Coward, said on Monday. He was 87. Payn, a product of the white-tie-and-tails school of song and dance, made his breakthrough in Coward’s 1945 Sigh No More.
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Twenty-five people, mainly children, were taken to hospital after eating food believed to be dog meat in an Eastern Cape village on Monday, the provincial health department said. Departmental spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the parents of a 17-year-old boy had told him to kill a dog that was attacking and killing their sheep.
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”Massive” educational deprivation continues to plague sub-Saharan Africa, South African Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. ”It is clear that an extraordinary effort will be required to ensure that all countries are directly assisted to succeed,” she told the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Police used rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of disgruntled Sydenham residents, and arrested 45 of them for marching illegally on Monday, Durban police said. Angry residents marched on the mayor’s office to hand over a memorandum that cited dissatisfaction over housing and the alleged removal of basic services from shack dwellers.
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A man who went to a Portuguese police station to beg for money wound up behind bars after officers found he was a wanted criminal, daily newspaper Correio da Manha reported on Monday. The 32-year-old man told officers that he needed the cash to return to his home in northern Portugal.