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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s trial date has been set for July 31 next year, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday. ”We are very pleased with this as it offers us what we wanted all the time — which is enough time to prepare for this case,” NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said.
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Thirty people were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a large crowd of people outside an army recruitment centre in the north-western Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police said. The attack, which also left 35 people wounded, came just a day after another attack in the town killed 30 people at a crowded market.
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The chairperson of the General Council of the Bar, advocate Norman Arendse, on Wednesday denied being part of any conspiracy to discredit John Hlophe, Judge President of the Cape division. Media reports suggested Hlophe had deliberately tried to sabotage his fellow judge and colleague, Wilfred Thring.
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Controversy over the frequently tragic attempts of African immigrants to storm the European Union’s Spanish borders clouded European Union talks on Wednesday, amid a claim the bloc is trying to erect new "Berlin walls". EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini briefed ministers about an EU mission to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa, which have been assaulted by waves of African would-be EU immigrants.
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A 60-year-old communications millionaire and the world’s third space tourist clattered back down on to the barren steppes of Kazakhstan early on Tuesday morning after an eight-day stay at the International Space Station. Gregory Olsen and a two-man Russian-American crew appeared a little shaken when their small Soyuz capsule was opened by rescuers.
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Sensitive information falling into the hands of Scorpions investigators may be abused to the detriment of the country, the Khampepe commission heard in Pretoria on Tuesday. The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusi Pikoli, conceded that it is possible that his organisation is a threat to national security.
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South Africa’s transport parastatal Transnet may need up to R25-billion in funding over the next five years from the financial markets, Transnet group treasurer Swazi Tshabalala told the parliamentary public enterprises portfolio committee on Wednesday.
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Judgement is to be passed on Thursday on William Nkuna, accused of having murdered missing Constable Frances Rasuge. Judge Ronald Hendricks heard closing arguments on Tuesday from prosecutor Johann Smit and defence attorney Post Moloto in the Mmabatho Circuit Court sitting in Ga-Rankuwa.
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The national executive committee (NEC) of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) has become the latest body to express concern over floor-crossing. ”The NEC remains concerned that the floor-crossing periods have become free-for-alls in which the pursuit of personal power and status eclipses concern for the public good,” it said.
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Global brewing giant SABMiller plc said on Wednesday that the group’s financial performance in the six-month period to September 30 this year was "in line with management’s expectations", and organic growth of about 5% in lager volumes was recorded.