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/ 11 November 2005
An outbreak of dysentry — believed to be caused by polluted water — has hit Harare and Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Friday. It said more than 200 cases had been reported in Mbare and at three residential blocks in Chitungwiza in the last few weeks.
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/ 11 November 2005
No trains were running between Johannesburg and Vereeniging via Midway on Friday after Metrorail suspended the service, spokesperson Brenda Motau said. ”There are no trains running and there will be no shuttle service either,” said Motau. By Thursday afternoon the railway line was closed following the torching of 28 coaches.
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/ 11 November 2005
African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, have failed to resolve their acrimonious dispute — posing a major problem for the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC). The NEC meets next weekend to consider a report by secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe on Mbeki and Zuma’s progress in settling their differences, which have deeply split the ANC.
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/ 11 November 2005
Sally Vincent speaks to Richard E Grant about growing up in Swaziland and putting it all on film.
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/ 11 November 2005
Some people are of the view that short stories, like poetry, are the fast food of literature, but one cannot doubt their importance. Sabata-Mpho Mokae looks at three recent collections of short stories to be published in South Africa.
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/ 11 November 2005
Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf appeared poised on Friday to become Africa’s first democratically elected female president, claiming victory after results from most of the West African country gave her an apparently unbeatable lead. With almost 91% of ballots counted, the electoral commission said 67-year-old Johnson-Sirleaf held about 59% of Tuesday’s vote.
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/ 11 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Jacob Zuma’s lawyers are preparing an application to set aside charges laid against their client, based on arguments that he will be denied a fair trial. Zuma’s attorney, Michael Hulley, confirmed that such an application was being prepared and would be launched some time before Zuma’s corruption trial next year.
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/ 11 November 2005
The contrast is quite remarkable. Instead of the neatness of Zurich, you have the winds of Chicago. Media coverage is also a little different. But for the Johannesburg Gay Games bid delegation, the agony of suspense in Chicago this weekend will be as intense as it was for Danny Jordaan and his soccer World Cup 2010 team in Switzerland last year.
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/ 11 November 2005
The three big black economic empowerment deals announced this week suggest South Africa’s empowerment process is in a transitional phase. Some interesting new models are being tested. But this does not change the fact that deeply disturbing trends are being entrenched. The upside is clearest in the case of De Beers, which announced what looks like the most thorough staff empowerment scheme yet.
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/ 11 November 2005
A recent spate of armed robberies by soldiers and security officers is an indication that all Zimbabweans are feeling the impact of the country’s shrinking economy.Two soldiers in Masvingo recently went on a robbery spree while in uniform, brandishing AK-47 rifles they had stolen from their battalion’s armoury.