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African National Congress (ANC) president Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday criticised individuals within the party who campaign for leadership positions within the movement. Mbeki told the South African National Civic Organisation conference in Bloemfontein that ”this is a matter that worries me and the leaders of the ANC movement”.
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/ 13 December 2006
Botswana’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that more than 1Â 000 Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari Desert and should be allowed to return. The court ruled 2-1 for the Bushmen in the key issues of the case, which saw Africa’s last hunter-gatherers take on one of the continent’s most admired governments.
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/ 13 December 2006
The United Nations new human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan’s Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against the civilian population. The 47-state Human Rights Council approved a consensus proposal leaving the naming of the five ”highly qualified” team members up to the council chairperson.
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/ 13 December 2006
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked Pope Benedict on Wednesday to denounce personally a conference in Iran questioning the Holocaust, an Olmert aide said, to reinforce criticism of it by the Vatican. The Israeli leader and the head of the world’s one billion Roman Catholics spoke for about 40 minutes at the Vatican.
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/ 13 December 2006
Denel Munitions, a subsidiary of Denel Holdings, has appointed ex-Airports Company South Africa boss Monwabisi Kalawe as its new chief executive, the company said on Wednesday. Said Kalawe: ”I have always enjoyed leading and actively contributing towards business-turnaround situations and this opportunity provides exactly that.
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/ 13 December 2006
French animal lovers said on Wednesday they had filed a lawsuit after a publishing company issued a hunter’s year book extolling the virtues of "hedgehog stew". The recipe appears in the <i>Almanach du Chasseur</i> (<i>The Hunter’s Almanach</i>), published by a company called CPE in Romorantin, central France.
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/ 13 December 2006
The World Cup goes on with or without Cape Town — this was the stark warning emanating from chairperson Irvin Khoza on Wednesday at a Local Organising Committee media briefing on the progress towards the 2010 tournament. Khoza was commenting on the niggling succession of obstacles that have emerged surrounding the construction of a new stadium for the World Cup.
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/ 13 December 2006
European Union leaders should support tough action against Sudanese leaders for their failure to end abuses in the strife-torn region of Darfur, the International Crisis Group and Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. On the eve of a two-day EU summit in Brussels, the campaigning groups called for individual sanctions on Sudanese leaders, an assets freeze and a travel ban.
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/ 13 December 2006
The government will ban canned hunting, despite media reports to the contrary, the Department of Environmental Affairs confirmed on Wednesday. The ban will come into effect in March next year, with the promulgation of regulations in terms of the Biodiversity Act, it said in a statement. The new regulations were unveiled to the media in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
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/ 13 December 2006
South Africa are set to pick an all-pace bowling attack as they seek to exploit India’s frailty against the lifting ball in the first Test starting at the Wanderers Stadium on Friday. Left-arm spinner Nicky Boje was not replaced after his sudden retirement from international cricket on Tuesday while unorthodox left-armer Paul Adams was released from the squad to play for his franchise team.