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The decision to fire Jacob Zuma as the country’s deputy president was correct, the African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday. ”The ANC accepts and supports the decision of President Thabo Mbeki to release deputy president Jacob Zuma from his duties in government following due consideration of the ruling in the Shaik trial,” said ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe.
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/ 14 November 2006
While South Africa still has one of the highest crime rates in the world, the past three years has seen a significant reduction in crime, according to a South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) report. ”The number of serious crimes reported to the South African Police Service declined by almost 18% between 2002/03 and 2005/06 according to the report,” read a SAIRR statement released on Tuesday.
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/ 14 November 2006
The whole wine industry should provide aid for those affected by Monday’s fatal railway accident at Faure in the Western Cape, according to leading figures in the industry. Nineteen wine farm casual workers died and 17 were injured when the truck carrying them was hit by a train at a level crossing.
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/ 14 November 2006
A 17-year-old pupil was in a serious but stable condition in hospital after he was stabbed at his school in Nyanga on Tuesday, Cape Town police said. The boy was in a classroom at Oscar Mpetha High when two youths stormed in at 10.15am and stabbed him in the head and back, Captain Randall Stoffels said. Two teenagers were arrested.
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/ 14 November 2006
Markus Wolf, the ”man without a face” who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, has died. He was 83. Wolf passed away early on Thursday November 9 in his apartment in Berlin, his stepdaughter Claudia Wall said in a statement. The cause of death was not released.
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/ 14 November 2006
A senior journalist with the East London Daily Dispatch, Lew Elias, has died. His wife, Liesl, said Elias, who had been diagnosed with cancer about three months ago, passed away at his East London home at about 6am on Sunday November 12.
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/ 14 November 2006
South African musician Jabu Khanyile (47) died in a Johannesburg hospital on Sunday November 12. Khanyile began his music career in Soweto at a very young age. He played with different bands for a decade before joining Bayete, first as a drummer and then as the band’s lead vocalist, radio news reported.
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/ 14 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki has appointed Deputy Auditor General Terence Nombembe to replace retiring Auditor General (AG) Shauket Fakie with effect from December 1, Parliament announced on Tuesday. Nombembe has been Deputy AG for the past five years and his term of office in the top post will be seven years.
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/ 14 November 2006
The regional trade imbalance in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries has remained in favour of South Africa despite major tariff removals, President Thabo Mbeki told the SADC parliamentary forum on Tuesday. The forum consists of representatives from the legislatures of SADC member countries.
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/ 14 November 2006
United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland appealed to Uganda’s government and Lord’s Resistance Army rebels on Tuesday not to let a fragile peace process fail and to end civilian suffering caused by 20 years of war. Both sides signed a new truce this month, raising hopes for an end to the brutal war in northern Uganda that has killed tens of thousands.