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/ 7 December 2007
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Aides of Jacob Zuma have drawn up contingency plans to try to force his rival President Thabo Mbeki out of office early, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Friday. If Zuma was elected party leader at the African National Congress’s five-yearly conference, he would insist on being privy to big government decisions.
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/ 18 November 2007
Criminals have infiltrated sensitive state structures, including security agencies, and ex-agents and ”comrades” were playing the system, a media quoted Reverend Frank Chikane as saying on Sunday. He also said that no ”political faction of any nature” could be allowed to use the levers of state to achieve its own narrow interests.
South Africa’s acting chief prosecutor said on Tuesday he would investigate police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi amid reports a warrant had been issued for his arrest for links to organised crime. Mokotedi Mpshe, acting director of the National Prosecuting Authority, said he could confirm an investigation of Selebi was under way.
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/ 25 September 2007
President Thabo Mbeki is about to act against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday. An inquiry into claims that Selebi had links with crime syndicates would be Mbeki’s second major step following the suspension of National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli, the newspaper said.
Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, has narrowly escaped death after being mysteriously poisoned.
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/ 29 January 1988
Dhlomo’s Mother, Sylvia Jele, said: ”My son had no quarrels with anyone to warrant such a cruel death.”