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Ten percent to 12% of the vote — that is what Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille predicts her party will get in next month’s general election. The fiery party leader, called the one-woman-show by many of her opponents, on Tuesday introduced her provincial leaders and premier’s candidates to the media.
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The first medicine-dispensing licences, allowing health-care practitioners to provide medicine to clients, were handed out by the Health Ministry in Pretoria on Tuesday. This follows a law promulgated last year to prevent doctors from dispensing medicine without the licences.
Seventy suspected mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea were remanded in custody on Tuesday after their first appearance at an improvised court room at the maximum security jail in Zimbabwe where they are being held. Five charges were read out to the suspects on Tuesday.
A train derailed on Sunday in the south of the Central African Republic of Congo, killing 31 people and injuring scores of others, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. It was unclear what caused Sunday’s crash, which occurred about 150km south of the capital, Brazzaville.
The drafting of a new Kenyan Constitution that shifts considerable powers from the presidency to a yet-to-be-created post of prime minister formally ended on Tuesday after a six-year gestation, but opponents of devolution still have a few cards to play.
Ten years after South Africa ended apartheid and returned to the international arena, the country is a model of good governance, freedom and democracy, Kenya’s agricultural attache in South Africa, Bernard Kitheka, said on Tuesday at a World Meteorological Day function hosted by the South African Weather Service.
The Western Cape director of public prosecutions has decided not to prosecute three men arrested in connection with a fatal shootout last week in front of former president Nelson Mandela’s Constantia home, SABC radio reported on Tuesday. The three men had been facing charges of attempted murder.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) will have to hold a formal hearing regarding a complaint lodged by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies concerning a broadcast on Muslim station Radio 786 that the board alleges was anti-Jewish.
Telkom does not believe software providing free international telephone calls on the internet will impact on its revenue, it said on Tuesday. "We are more concerned from a legal and regulatory perspective," said Andrew Weldrick, a Telkom spokesperson.