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/ 20 February 2007
South African President Thabo Mbeki met FirstRand Limited chairperson GT Ferreira, FirstRand Limited CEO Paul Harris and FirstRand Bank CEO Sizwe Nxasana in Pretoria on Tuesday, the Presidency said. According to presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga, the group ”apprised the president on their widely publicised media advertisement campaign on crime”.
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/ 20 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki should explain why he needs a security wall worth R90-million for his residence if there is no crime problem in the country, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. ”He should tell us why he will have a wall … while ordinary South Africans continue to suffer the effects of crime without such luxury,” said DA spokesperson Dianne Kohler-Barnard.
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/ 20 February 2007
Gauteng provincial minister of transport Ignatius Jacobs has given his department six weeks to clear the backlog in driving-licence examinations. This would be followed by increasing automation at all centres, Jacobs told a media briefing on Tuesday to elaborate on Premier Mbhazima Shilowa’s state of the province address.
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/ 20 February 2007
The state has sought to counter outrage that met a recent court ruling on a Limpopo farmer who shot dead an 11-year-old boy he mistook for a dog. ”It cannot be argued that the conviction of culpable homicide is incorrect, having read the statement of the witnesses,” the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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/ 20 February 2007
Police called to a Long Island man’s house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set. The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to have died of natural causes.
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/ 20 February 2007
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will hold talks with Darfur rebels in Libya on Tuesday to try to advance peace efforts in the western Sudanese region. The talks will also be attended by Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and United Nations and African Union envoys.
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/ 20 February 2007
The Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday said that Donald Rumsfeld would be remembered as ”one of the worst secretaries of defence in history”. McCain’s comments came as he hit out at ”mismanagement” of the Iraq war.
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/ 20 February 2007
A new radio station targeting both Israeli and Palestinians will take to the airwaves this week based on a format that pioneered debate in apartheid-era South Africa. From Wednesday, 93.6 RAM FM will broadcast 20 news bulletins a day from studios in Jerusalem and the West Bank to a target audience of half a million people.
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/ 20 February 2007
The Department of Home Affairs has denied claims by a gay couple from Witpoortjie, Johannesburg, that officials at the Roodepoort office refused to marry them because of their sexual orientation. Spokesperson Mantshele Tau said on Tuesday that claims by Marius Olivier and Tommy Meyer were ”baseless”.
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/ 20 February 2007
A delay by the Competition Commission in deciding whether Fruit & Veg City and Pick’n Pay should enter into a partnership has forced the two bodies to withdraw from the proposed deal. Fruit & Veg City managing director Brian Coppin said the groups would not be pursuing their deal because of ”an already unacceptable regulatory delay”.