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The African National Congress took a conciliatory stance on Monday in its spat with Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, saying the archbishop remained highly respected as a South African leader. Earlier on Monday, Tutu used irony to rebuke President Thabo Mbeki for his scathing attack last week on the archbishop, in a newsletter on the African National Congress website ANC Today.
Tutu reads SA the riot act
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Sudan on Monday ordered the expulsion of the directors of two British-based humanitarian organisations for their statements on the Darfur crisis. The Humanitarian Affairs Commission said the program directors of Save the Children UK and Oxfam International had violated the laws on non-intervention in the country’s political, ethnic or sectarian issues.
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Up to 70 KwaZulu-Natal teachers faced arrest on Monday as part of an education department and police clampdown on fraud and theft. Officials believed a syndicate operating within the department devised a scam whereby bogus qualification bonuses were fraudulently paid into some teachers’ bank accounts.
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Rocky the sniffer dog and handler Daniel Richardson were back on their Australian beat Monday after a Sydney appeals court ruled that nosing up to a man in a nightclub queue didn’t amount to an assault or even an unlawful search. Glen Darby, 23-year-old estate agent , instigated the appeal court process after police allege that Rocky alerted Richardson to a pocketful of amphetamines and cannabis.
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Swazi Queen Sibonelo Mngomezulu tackles her kingdom’s record-high HIV/Aids rates with as much passion as she fights to bring women out of men’s shadows in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Married to polygamist King Mswati III for nearly 20 years, she has broken the mould many times, completing a law degree, speaking out against polygamy, producing her own television show and setting up the first HIV/Aids charities.
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The Afrikander Lease announced on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based Nufcor International Limited. In terms of the memorandum, Nufcor, which is equally owned by AngloGold Ashanti Limited and Rand Merchant Bank, will now be the exclusive global marketer and distributor of Aflease’s U308 uranium oxide concentrates.
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Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin on Friday opened Turbomeca Africa’s new manufacturing and maintenance facility at Kempton Park, Johannesburg, that will manufacture gear boxes, civil and military helicopter engine, according to government news agency BuaNews. Turbomeca Africa is a joint company formed by South Africa’s arms manufacturer Denel, and French Group Turbomeca.
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First the pop stars sang for aid to Africa, and now an illustrious group of authors are helping victims of Aids in the continent. Twenty-one writers, including five Nobel prize winners, have produced an anthology to raise money for a charity helping those with Aids and HIV in Southern Africa.
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Clara Petacci, Benito Mussolini’s lover, took turns with her sister in the bed of Italy’s wartime dictator, according to a newly released account by one of those closest to him. Immediately after the World War II, Ercole Boratto, Mussolini’s chauffeur from 1922 to 1943, wrote up his recollections of the Duce at the request of United States intelligence.
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Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin. The incident was not as shocking as the recording of an Israeli officer pumping the body of a 13-year-old girl full of bullets and then saying he would have shot her even if she had been three years old.