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/ 26 February 2007
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) says its insistence on the president of the ruling party and the country being the same individual has nothing with its support for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma. ANCYL secretary general Sihle Zikalala said on Monday that it is a policy position that whoever becomes president of the ANC must be the president of the country.
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/ 26 February 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s condition is ”improving speedily”, her spokesperson Sibani Mngadi said on Monday. ”The minister remains in a high-care unit at the Johannesburg General Hospital where she was admitted on Tuesday February 20,” he said. Tshabalala-Msimang is being treated for anaemia and pleural effusion.
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/ 26 February 2007
Democratic Alliance (DA) national chairperson Joe Seremane on Monday announced he will stand for election as his party’s new leader. ”I state it, unequivocally, right now, that I shall make myself available as candidate for the DA leader’s vacancy at our coming congress in May this year,” he told reporters in Cape Town.
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/ 26 February 2007
The United Nations’s top court on Monday cleared Serbia of genocide during the war in Bosnia, but said Belgrade did breach international law by not acting to prevent the 1995 genocide at Srebrenica. "The court finds that Serbia has not committed genocide," Rosalyn Higgins, the president of the International Court of Justice, said.
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/ 26 February 2007
A suicide bomber who triggered an explosive device outside a Baghdad business school and slaughtered at least 40 people was a woman, a security official said Monday. An attacker on Sunday detonated a bomb packed with ball bearings amid a crowd of mainly-Shi’ite students and guards.
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/ 26 February 2007
Synthetic-fuels group Sasol said on Monday it planned to respond in detail to the National Treasury on the windfall-tax report. The group said it had conducted a preliminary study of the task team’s report on possible reforms to the fiscal regime applicable to windfall profits in South Africa’s liquid-fuel energy sector, with particular reference to the synthetic-fuel industry.
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/ 26 February 2007
The South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) will embark on a strike this week at Autopax, a division of Transnet that deals with bus transportation, the union announced on Monday. Satawu national spokesperson Ronnie Mamba said Autopax was served with a notice of strike on Monday morning.
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/ 26 February 2007
Two helicopters and mobile water-purification plants are scheduled to head for Mozambique this week to help with flood relief. Department of Provincial and Local Government spokesperson Luzuko Koti said negotiations are going on between government departments for further items that will contribute to the neighbourly help effort.
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/ 26 February 2007
The Mozambican government has declared tuberculosis (TB) as a national emergency, Vista News reported on Monday. The Health Minister, Ivo Garrido, in an interview with the national radio service, Radio Mozambique, said public hospitals had limited capacities to treat the more than 35Â 000 cases that were recorded in the country last year.
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/ 26 February 2007
Iraq’s vice-president and its public works minister were both slightly hurt on Monday when a bomb hidden in the ceiling of a ministry building exploded, a lawmaker in their party said. Four other people were killed in the attack, medics said. The senior Shi’ite officials were quickly released from a United States military hospital.