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/ 19 October 2005
Where will they lead youth? As we approach our national Youth Day, the calibre of our youth leaders needs to be scrutinised. The breathtaking display of political imbecility by Fikile Mbalula of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and Buti Manamela of the Young Communist League (YCL) in response to Judge Hillary Squires’s findings […]
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/ 19 October 2005
Research commissioned by Visa and First National Bank (FNB) indicates that South Africans use a debit or credit card to make more than 50% of their payments — a number that Galia Durbach, CEO of FNB Core Banking Solutions, believes should increase. She says the popularity of card-based transactional products is increasing.
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/ 19 October 2005
Zimbabwe’s police chief says the authorities are ”dangerously underfunding” the police force, which does not have enough money to pay decent wages or buy new uniforms. Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri told a parliamentary committee in Harare on Tuesday that as a result morale in the police force was low and law enforcers are tempted to take bribes, the private Daily Mirror reported.
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/ 19 October 2005
Almost one in three people bitten by deadly saltwater crocodiles in Australia had been drinking alcohol before the animal attacked, new research has found. An Australian review of unprovoked crocodile attacks on humans between 1971 and 2004 found that 29% of the 62 attacks had involved some alcohol consumption by the victim.
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/ 19 October 2005
South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Pravin Gordhan confirmed on Wednesday that there is "money due" in back taxes from the estate of the late Brett Kebble, but did not put a figure to the amount. <i>Business Day</i> reported recently that Kebble was believed to have died owing up to R100-million in tax to Sars.
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/ 19 October 2005
A defiant Saddam Hussein, proclaiming he was still ”president” of Iraq, on Wednesday refused to give even his name as he appeared in court on the first day of a trial being watched across the globe. He delivered a widely predicted but feisty tirade against the judge and the legitimacy of the court.
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/ 19 October 2005
Education quality-assurance body Umalusi on Wednesday said it has instructed all matric-examination assessment bodies not to use teachers found guilty of examination irregularities to administer matric exams. A total of 61 teachers were implicated in the incident last year.
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Despite the fact that Jacob Zuma has asked the state to pay his legal costs during his corruption trial, the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust is still raising money for South Africa’s former deputy president, with the same objective. The trust is receiving ”sufficient support”, a spokesperson for the board of trustees said.
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/ 19 October 2005
The seclusion section of the psychiatric ward at the Dr George Mukhadi hospital in Ga-Rankuwa north of Pretoria was closed on Tuesday due to unsafe and unhygienic conditions, the Health Department said. Ministerial spokesperson Sibani Mngadi said the seclusion rooms had no toilets and the structure was also not in compliance with the Mental Health Act.
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/ 19 October 2005
The United Nations’s cultural agency, Unesco, is expected on Thursday to approve a convention that will allow countries to protect their cultures from globalisation, despite bitter opposition from the United States. The initiative could mean that countries will be able to subsidise domestic film industries and restrict foreign music and content on their radio and television stations.