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/ 13 December 2006
South Africa will help the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to find a diplomatic solution to the ongoing fighting in the country, South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Wednesday. He was speaking only a day after the forces of warlord Laurent Nkunda apparently attacked and killed three men who wanted to return to the regular army.
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/ 13 December 2006
Dance ’99 mines a rich and defiant strain of contemporary local choreography, reports Charl Blignaut.
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/ 13 December 2006
“We are not the Third World. Africa was here first, so we are the First World. People everywhere are interested in the culture here,” says Vincent Mantsoe, 1996 winner of the Standard Bank young choreographer’s award. And he should know. He’s the obvious icon of South African contemporary dance and has just returned from a […]
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/ 12 December 2006
People should keep their hands off the deputy president, the ruling party on Tuesday said. Reacting to the flight-cost saga, African National Congress (ANC) spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said in a statement: ”The ANC remains concerned that even with clear evidence to the contrary, some people are hell-bent on tarnishing the image of the deputy president.”
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/ 12 December 2006
Zimbabwe’s finance minister has dismissed rumours he is at loggerheads with central bank Governor Gideon Gono as the country’s economic crisis deepens, reports said on Tuesday. In an interview with the state-controlled Herald newspaper, Herbert Murerwa said he had no problems with the feisty Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe chief.
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/ 12 December 2006
Despite recent controversies over the Koeberg nuclear power plant near Cape Town, locals in the coastal city have shown little resistance to the government’s plan to build another nuclear reactor on their doorstep. Last year the area was hit by several successive power failures. Indications were that a loose bolt that damaged a non-nuclear gas turbine at Koeberg was one of the causes.
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/ 11 December 2006
The African National Congress (ANC) has dismissed as ”scurrilous” Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) claims that President Thabo Mbeki has left the ANC ”fractious and deeply divided”. Cosatu’s criticism could not stand up to ”honest scrutiny”, the ANC said in a statement on Monday.
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/ 11 December 2006
South Africa, which has the world’s second-heaviest caseload of HIV/Aids, has seen average life expectancy fall by 13 years since 1990 to 51, a new study has revealed. A survey by the Medical Research Council and Actuarial Society of South Africa said life expectancy this year was ”estimated to be 49 years for males and 53 years for females”, or an average of 51.
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/ 11 December 2006
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Monday that Iran will respond to any action against its nuclear activities amid growing signs of a consensus on United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran. ”From now on, considering your insistence on confronting the Iranian nation, we consider this move of yours as hostile and will act accordingly,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
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/ 11 December 2006
France armed and trained radical militia blamed for most of the killings in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, two Rwandan ex-soldiers told a panel probing alleged French complicity in the massacres on Monday. The pair said French troops had worked closely with the former Rwandan army and members of the Interahamwe militia.