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Surgeon General Vijay Ramlakan confirmed on Friday that Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota had suffered a heart attack on Wednesday. ”He was alone in his official residence in Cape Town when the incident happened. Minister Lekota … was able to summon help from Staff Sergeant Andre Salamat,” he told reporters.
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A date for the corruption trial of dismissed deputy president Jacob Zuma will formally be set at his appearance in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. Police frisked supporters as they streamed to the court on Friday evening, and put the crowd inside their barriers at more than 2Â 000 by 11pm. More were gathered outside.
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/ 12 November 2005
The corruption scandal at Volkswagen (VW) this year robbed Europe’s largest carmaker of at least â,¬5-million in illegal kickbacks and theft, an independent report by auditors KPMG disclosed on Friday. The report brought closer criminal charges against Peter Hartz, the former personnel director.
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/ 11 November 2005
Zimbabwean authorities on Friday freed more than 100 protesters, including top labour leaders, arrested in the capital on Tuesday for demonstrating against economic hardships and shortages in the country. ”They are being released now,” lawyer Alec Muchadehama said in a telephone interview.
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The African National Congress noted ”with pain” the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal on Friday of an appeal by politician Tony Yengeni against a fraud conviction and four-year sentence. The party will continue giving Yengeni moral and political support, it added. The African Christian Democratic Party said Yengeni should be thankful his sentence was not increased.
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Johan Prinsloo, CEO of the South African Rugby Union, was found not guilty of sexual harassment subsequent to a formal disciplinary hearing held in Cape Town. Prinsloo’s legal representatives stated that although not surprised, they are satisfied with the outcome of the hearing.
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Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter on Friday described a report that he had ”quit” as coach of the South African national soccer team as a ”complete fabrication”. A newspaper report proclaimed he had already ”quit” his position and would make an official announcement to this effect immediately after the Nelson Mandela Cup game on Saturday.
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Pakistani police using canes and rifle butts broke up a march on Friday by earthquake survivors protesting what they said were orders to evict them from a makeshift refugee camp. Police denied they were forcing people to leave. Meanwhile, international lenders estimated the economic cost of the quake at more than -billion.
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The metropolitan area of Cape Town was without power for almost two hours on Friday afternoon, apparently due to a technical problem related to the Koeberg power station. An outage at the Koeberg nuclear power station cut the electricity supply to the Cape Town city centre, an Eskom spokesperson said.
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A senior United States envoy and Sudan’s vice-president discussed their efforts to bring peace to troubled Darfur on Friday. Also on Friday, the US moved to cement ties with the autonomous government of southern Sudan by opening a consulate in the south. The consulate is to be housed for the time being in a Red Cross compound.