Nearly two years after it made a public commitment to do so, the ANC has made no progress in developing legislation to regulate private funding to political parties. The ANC’s pledge to develop legislation followed the dismissal in April 2005 of a high court application by civil society group Idasa aimed at forcing the DA, the ANC, the IFP and the former New National Party to reveal major private financial donors.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday it would push for a left-wing candidate to succeed President Thabo Mbeki as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) gears up to elect new leaders later this year. ”This time around we are taking a keen interest,” secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi told reporters after a three-day Cosatu national committee meeting.
A "feel-good factor" is creating a comfort zone for thousands of upwardly mobile families as they add to their personal possessions — but without proper insurance safeguards, these householders could find the good times turning bad. This consumer alert comes from short-term insurer Mutual & Federal.
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/ 28 February 2007
In May, Algeria will inaugurate a reserve around a small oasis in the south-west where plants and animals will be protected in the service of a broader goal. Hopes are that the Taghit National Park will help stop the advance of the Sahara Desert, which already stretches across almost all of this North African country.
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/ 27 February 2007
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata appeared briefly in a magistrate’s chambers in the Hillbrow courts on Tuesday morning in connection with an alleged drunken-driving incident, instead of in open court. Magistrate H Visser said Motata will appear again in court three in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on April 13.
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/ 27 February 2007
A Milan schoolteacher lost her job after slashing a seven-year-old student’s tongue with a pair of scissors to punish him for talking too much, the Education Ministry announced on Tuesday. "Faced with such grievous actions there is only one possible response: zero tolerance," Education Minister Giuseppe Fioroni said in a statement.
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/ 27 February 2007
Iran on Tuesday vowed never to yield to the key Western demand on its nuclear programme after world powers agreed to work on a new resolution that could lead to more United Nations sanctions against Tehran. Diplomats from six key world powers had pledged in London on Monday to work on a new UN Security Council resolution.
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/ 26 February 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) is ”more than capable” of speaking for itself on its state of organisation and other matters affecting it, party spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said on Sunday. His remarks follow a call by the South African Communist Party for a ”major transformation and renewal” of the ANC.
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/ 25 February 2007
Tensions were rising between Iran and the West this weekend as Britain prepared to push for tough new United Nations sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear enrichment programme. Talks in New York this week aimed at agreeing the text of a UN resolution follow a weekend of tough verbal exchanges.
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/ 25 February 2007
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Saturday at the party’s 29th Robert Sobukwe Commemoration rally, at the Collie Koeberg Stadium in Graaff-Reinet, that the PAC will never join hands with the African National Congress (ANC), which it accuses of ”cut-throat capitalism” that only benefits its own party officials.