<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday congratulated the Independent Electoral Commission on its readiness to hold Wednesday’s general election and urged political parties to do their part to ensure the poll is free and fair.
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<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34067">Tutu allays fears about ANC win</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34055">Eastern Cape ANC apologises to DA</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday addressed fears that the governing African National Congress could become too strong in South Africa as the party heads for its third election victory.
Special Report: Elections 2004
The Arabic television station Al-Jazeera showed footage on Tuesday of what it said are four Italian hostages abducted by insurgents in Iraq, as the top Italian diplomat in Baghdad confirmed four nationals are missing. A statement from the kidnappers called for ”a commitment to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq”, the station said.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe should be held accountable for crimes against humanity, delegates attending the Second World Bar Conference of the Forum for Barristers and Advocates heard in Cape Town on Tuesday.
A mother of seven has been kept locked up in a Kenyan hospital for a year because she cannot pay her medical bill, local media reported on Tuesday. The woman was admitted to a hospital in the town of Meru last April after a domestic quarrel, and shortly after gave birth to twins.
South Africa’s Grintek Aviation Systems has been awarded a contract to supply an instrument landing system and distance measurement equipment to Malaysia. The equipment will be installed at the Alor Setar Airport in the north of the country, Grintek said in a statement received in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The African National Congress in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday formally apologised for the disruption of three Democratic Alliance election meetings in the province last month. The apology follows incidents in which an ANC sound truck with 15Â 000 watt speakers was used to blast DA meetings in East London and Port Elizabeth.
Special Report: Elections 2004
Half the Iraqis killed in the United States offensive in the town of Fallujah were women, children and elderly people, a mediator said on Tuesday, but US officials insisted they take all precautions to avoid non-combatants. Meanwhile, a crashed US Apache helicopter was seen burning on the ground outside Fallujah on Tuesday.
Al-Jazeera airs hostage video
US pledges to arrest or kill Shia cleric
Trapped beneath a 20-ton truck, two motorists spent their last moments alive watching emergency personnel frantically trying to rescue them in Pretoria on Tuesday. The runaway truck’s brakes failed, its unlicensed driver said, and it careered through seven sets of traffic lights, smashing five vehicles in its path.
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has appealed to all South African employers to respect the constitutional rights of workers by allowing them to go and cast their vote on Wednesday April 14, a public holiday. "This holiday was declared specifically to allow South Africans to exercise their right to vote," he said.