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South Africa’s ruling African National Congress exists to serve the people of South Africa, and to serve the people today means that it must concentrate on achieving a higher economic growth path and the eradication of poverty, says President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 14 October 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>In its weekly online newsletter on Friday, the African National Congress has attacked an editorial piece in the <i>Financial Mail</i> that criticised the ANC’s support for Zuma in the week that Zuma appeared on corruption charges in the Durban Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 14 October 2005
The British government’s policy on deportation to Zimbabwe was thrown into serious doubt on Friday after a failed asylum seeker won his appeal against the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke. The man, who cannot be named, would be at risk of harm if he were returned to President Robert Mugabe’s regime, the asylum and immigration tribunal ruled.
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/ 14 October 2005
Two people in a Toyota were slightly injured when a man in a white BMW opened fire on them while they were stationary at a robot on Friday, Johannesburg police said.
Captain Schalk Bornman said the incident occurred in Marlboro Drive. Police have established that the Toyota was transporting money for a financial institute.
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/ 14 October 2005
Rapid urbanisation is causing the demand for housing to grow faster than the government can deliver it, Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu said on Friday. ”At this rate, we are not going to get very far. We have a serious problem,” she told the annual conference of the Black Management Forum in Johannesburg.
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/ 14 October 2005
The Dutch police arrested seven people on Friday suspected of planning terrorist attacks, officials said, as police sealed off government buildings in The Hague and carried out several raids in the city. The suspects, six men and a woman, were arrested in The Hague, Amsterdam and nearby Almere.
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/ 14 October 2005
Heads of state from central and south-east Europe insisted on Friday that European Union enlargement continue and include Turkey as well as the Balkan states that emerged from the bloody wars of the 1990s. Fifteen leaders are attending a summit in Zagreb to discuss European integration and expansion
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The European Parliament on Friday called for an end to harrassment of opposition groups in Ethiopia and warned of possible aid cuts to the impoverished Horn of Africa nation if it did not stop. The Strasbourg-based legislature deplored the government’s treatment of the opposition since disputed May elections that European Union observers said failed to meet international standards.
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/ 14 October 2005
World oil prices fell in New York on Friday but held firm in London, as a report on crude stockpiles in the United States suggested weakening demand in the world’s biggest energy consumer. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, shed 42 cents to ,66 per barrel in electronic trading.
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/ 14 October 2005
A handwritten score of one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most revolutionary works has been discovered by a librarian cleaning out a cabinet in a seminary in Pennsylvania after being missing for more than a century. The work was described by scholars of the German composer on Thursday as an ”amazing find” and ”extremely important”.