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/ 20 November 2007
Legislation relating to judicial conduct and ethics was unanimously approved in the National Assembly on Tuesday. Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Brigitte Mabandla said recent controversial incidents regarding alleged indiscretions by members of the judiciary had highlighted the lack of a credible legal framework.
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/ 20 November 2007
Pressure from the street against French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s programme of reforms intensified on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by rail workers. Teachers, postal staff, nurses, air-traffic controllers, tax officials and other civil servants staged a one-day protest.
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/ 19 November 2007
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A special meeting will be held before the African National Congress’s (ANC) 52nd annual conference in December, the party said on Monday. ”The NEC [national executive committee] agreed to hold a special meeting before the conference to further discuss issues for inclusion in the NEC’s report to conference,” ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said.
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/ 19 November 2007
South Africa’s former first lady, Graca Machel, on Monday joined President Thabo Mbeki in refuting claims that more South Africans are now poorer than they were in 1996. Machel said that while there was room for improvement, the African National Congress-led government had done exceptionally well in the fight against poverty.
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/ 19 November 2007
Councillors other than Badih Chaaban may also have been under illegal surveillance in Cape Town’s spy scandal and police have ”a lot of information and detail” to back this up, Independent Democrats deputy leader Simon Grindrod was quoted as saying on Monday.
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/ 19 November 2007
As the first serious female president on American television, Mackenzie Allen (played by Geena Davis) faced two tough choices in her first episode of the 2005 series Commander in Chief: what to wear and who to invade. As she drove to Congress to make her first address, her youngest daughter spilled grapejuice on her blouse. Using her assistant’s scarf to cover up the stain, she could then move on to the next challenge.
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/ 18 November 2007
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Former president Nelson Mandela has pulled a South African Broadcasting Corporation advert in which he appears with President Thabo Mbeki, fearing that he would be seen to be endorsing Mbeki in the ANC’s succession battle, a media report said on Sunday.
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/ 16 November 2007
A special Rwandan commission handed over on Friday a 500-page report on France’s alleged role in the country’s 1994 genocide, the commission’s president said. Paris has already rejected the competency of the commission of historians and jurists tasked to assemble evidence of France’s role in Rwanda’s genocide.
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/ 16 November 2007
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Reports that Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has entered the African National Congress (ANC) succession debate are devoid of truth, her spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Friday. The incorrect impression followed an interview she had with radio station Kaya FM on Thursday.
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/ 16 November 2007
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s largest economies gather in Kleinmond in the southern Cape this weekend for a meeting of the Group of 20 countries. The event is described by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel as probably the most significant gathering of economic policymakers seen to date in South Africa.