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/ 6 December 2006
United States troops should begin withdrawing from combat and Washington should launch a diplomatic and political push to halt a ”grave and deteriorating” crisis in Iraq, a high-level panel studying the war said on Wednesday. US President George Bush said he would take the highly anticipated report ”very seriously”.
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/ 6 December 2006
What a strange business the Nationwide fracas has been. What is spin and what is the truth?
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/ 6 December 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority is to ask the Durban High Court to request that Mauritian authorities hand over documentation which may show that a meeting took place between Jacob Zuma, Schabir Shaik and the former chief executive of French arms manufacturer Thint.
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/ 6 December 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena are the government’s top 2006 performers, while Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang continues to languish at the bottom of the class, according to the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) end-of-year Cabinet report card.
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/ 6 December 2006
Joseph Kabila was sworn in on Wednesday as the first democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at a colourful ceremony attended by thousands of guests and seen by many as a possible turning point for the war-ravaged nation. Kabila raised his right hand before Supreme Court judges and pledged to ”uphold and defend the Constitution”.
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/ 6 December 2006
There is little joy for consumers in Zimbabwe this festive season where the cost of living shot up by nearly 50% last month, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe was reported as saying on Wednesday. An urban family now needs ZÂ 000 () to meet its basic food, housing, transport and clothing needs for a month, way above the average wage, the consumer watchdog said.
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/ 6 December 2006
South Africa and Australia signed a letter of intent on Wednesday to cooperate on climate-change issues, the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said. ”South Africa and Australia are at comparable latitude in the southern hemisphere and consequently have similar climatic conditions,” Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in a statement.
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/ 6 December 2006
The nine provincial police commissioners on Wednesday expressed anger and disgust at ongoing media allegations that police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi is linked to criminal activity. Speaking on behalf of the provincial commissioners, Western Cape Commissioner Mzwandile Petros said the commissioners met on Tuesday with the National Prosecuting Authority.
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/ 6 December 2006
Many South Africans can expect a bumper Christmas season — and probably a record season for retailers — in spite of the recent interest rate hikes. This is the forecast of the latest First National Bank and Bureau of Economic Research Consumer Confidence Index, released on Wednesday by the bank’s chief economist Cees Bruggemans.
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/ 6 December 2006
Scorpions advocate Portia Refiloe Kgantsi is to go to trial in the Johannesburg High Court on April 16 on 12 counts including fraud, corruption and extortion. She was served with the indictment against her in the Randburg Regional Court on Wednesday.