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Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota was ”fine” on Friday morning after being rushed to a Cape Town hospital due to a medical emergency, his office said. ”He had a good night’s sleep, and he is doing fine,” ministerial spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi said from Pretoria.
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/ 11 November 2005
The African National Congress government seems paranoid about disaffected minorities staging a counter-revolution, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday. ”The president seems to think that foreign-funded non-governmental organisations are out to undermine the government,” Leon said.
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/ 11 November 2005
A four-year jail term imposed on fraudster politician Tony Yengeni ”errs significantly on the side of leniency”, the Pretoria High Court found on Friday in dismissing his appeal against conviction and sentence. An effective five-year sentence would have been more appropriate, judges Eberhard Bertelsmann and Ferdi Preller said.
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/ 11 November 2005
United States software giant Microsoft said on Friday it has sealed a -million deal with South Korean internet portal Daum Communications to settle an anti-trust suit and put the two firms in a new partnership. The deal ends a legal battle with Daum, which had accused Microsoft of violating anti-trust rules.
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/ 11 November 2005
The Gautrain could need as much as R560-million a year in government subsidies, over and above the R20-billion that its construction is currently expected to cost taxpayers. This is despite repeated insistence from project leader Jack van der Merwe that the private consortium that is to build and operate the train would not receive a subsidy on its operating expenditure.
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/ 11 November 2005
The Cabinet has approved two Bills dealing with the structure and functioning of courts for tabling in Parliament. They are the Superior Courts Bill and the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Amendment Bill 14. The announcement suggests that the deadlock between the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and the judiciary about planned reforms to the justice system has eased slightly.
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/ 11 November 2005
Mining companies are homing in on diamond-rich land under restitution claims in the Northern Cape, fragmenting the recipient communities into warring factions.
Sugar Ramakarane, regional land claims commissioner in the Northern Cape and Free State, said the community of Schmidtsdrift, near Kimberley, had broken into seven factions over which company should partner them in mining the diamonds.
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/ 11 November 2005
Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter has the blueprint to beating Senegal in the Nelson Mandela Cup on Saturday. However, crucial in exposing Baxter’s master plan and ending Bafana Bafana’s disastrous nine-match winless streak will be Aaron Mokoena and his charges.
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/ 11 November 2005
Scolding herself to ”fight, fight, fight” in the third set, Maria Sharapova outlasted top-ranked Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 at the WTA Championships on Thursday night, with both players advancing to the semifinals. Amelie Mauresmo of France defeated Russian Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-3 to ensure a spot in the semifinals.
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/ 11 November 2005
Graham Rix, then, has arrived in the heart of the Romanovs’ ruthless empire, sidestepping the gore on the Tynecastle carpet. Now, after the departure of the former manager George Burley and the chief executive Phil Anderton, a further apparent shock for Hearts: Vladimir Romanov, the Lithuanian banker and industrialist, is funding the club with loans only.