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/ 5 December 2006
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Youth Brigade has come out in support of President Thabo Mbeki over what it said are attempts by Jacob Zuma supporters to create no-go areas for the African National Congress (ANC) leader. ” … the ANC continues to create ‘no-go’ areas for the country’s president in KwaZulu-Natal,” the organisation said in a statement on Tuesday.
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/ 4 December 2006
A 45-year-old woman died after being attacked by a swarm of bees at her home near Sodwana in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Monday, police said. Superintendent Jay Naicker said Zodwa Sikhosana and another woman were sitting in her house at Mbazwana at about 2.45pm when a swarm of bees flew into the house and attacked them.
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/ 4 December 2006
Recent union remarks over outstanding payments to teachers are ”misinformed and inflammatory”, the Department of Education said on Monday. A settlement agreement for wage increases has been fulfilled by the department, said spokesperson Lunga Ngqengelele.
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/ 4 December 2006
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The most influential provincial leadership of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has voted in favour of President Thabo Mbeki remaining head of the ruling party next year, a potential blow to his former deputy, Jacob Zuma. Political analysts said the resolution signalled the start of the fiercest contest for the leadership of the ANC in its 94-year history.
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/ 4 December 2006
It’s funny how things pan out. When the great intellectual and stalwart of the struggle, a young man still only in his 30s known as Mzala, died in London somewhere in the 1980s, there was much talk about whether he should be buried where he had ”fallen” or whether his remains should have been repatriated to what was then a bitter South Africa to be laid to rest, as they say, at the place of his birth.
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/ 4 December 2006
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape on Sunday passed a resolution encouraging Thabo Mbeki to stand for a third term as party leader. The resolution came at the provincial ANC’s three-yearly conference in Alice, a few hours after Mbeki loyalist Stone Sizani was named as the new provincial chairperson.
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/ 4 December 2006
"This thing [the taxi recapitalisation programme] is going to kill our businesses once and for all. Where will we get customers if all taxis are new and are serviced in town?" asks mechanic and Soweto taxi owner Edward Singo. Singo is one of Gauteng’s vehicle mechanics in the informal minibus taxi support industry who is worried about the government’s taxi recapitalisation programme.
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/ 2 December 2006
Two men were arrested in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning for the murder of a policeman. They allegedly repeatedly stabbed Inspector Goodman Simelane (41) in his Ulundi home last week Saturday. The men, aged 26 and 18, were being detained in Ulundi and were expected to appear in the Mahlabathini Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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/ 30 November 2006
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Less than half of South Africa’s 15-year olds will live long enough to collect a pension, according to an actuarial report on the Aids epidemic released on Thursday. Fifteen-year-olds now have a 56% chance of dying before turning 60. In 1996 youngsters of the same age only had a 29% chance of not making their 60th birthday.
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/ 30 November 2006
The extreme drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been detected at 39 KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) hospitals, the Witness newspaper reported on Thursday. This emerged during a session of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature being held in Dududu on the province’s south coast.
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/ 30 November 2006
Nuggety Clive Barker, who will indelibly be remembered for guiding Bafana Bafana to the African Nations Cup title on home soil in 1996, was on Wednesday unceremoniously removed from his position as head coach of Amazulu. Barker has confirmed he no longer occupies the position at Amazulu.
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/ 28 November 2006
The vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the chairperson of the council have stepped aside from their positions pending investigations into claims of sexual harassment and victimisation. Vice-chancellor Professor Malegapuru Makgoba has taken a leave of absence, while council chairperson Dr Vincent Maphai stood down.
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/ 28 November 2006
More South Africans are voluntarily getting counselled and tested for HIV with figures rising annually, the Department of Health said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Sibani Mngadi said 1Â 715Â 588 people utilised the free voluntary counselling and testing services between April 2005 and March 2006. ”The trend is that it seems to be doubling every year,” he said.
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/ 28 November 2006
Dear Comrade Vavi,
Your article in last week’s Mail & Guardian (”The media must own up to its massive blunder”) will be seen as the view of organised labour on all the issues that you discuss. While this may be the case with many of your statements, some do fill one with concern.
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/ 27 November 2006
Lance Klusener came back to haunt the visitors on the final day of the four-day Supersport Series cricket match between the Highveld Lions and the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins. The Dolphins won by five wickets. In East London, eight bowlers were used by the Warriors in an attempt to break some stubborn partnerships by the Cape Cobras.
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/ 27 November 2006
In a country where HIV/Aids kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new. But at one hospital in rural KwaZulu-Natal province, what could be a new public health nightmare is taking its toll as doctors and nurses grapple with a new, highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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/ 25 November 2006
The Highveld Lions can consider themselves to be in the driving seat after two days of their Supersport Series match against the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins at the Maritzburg Oval, but they will be hoping for better weather over the next two days if they are to press for victory.
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/ 24 November 2006
Indigenous evergreen forests comprise only 0,56% of South Africa’s land surface area. These forests form the smallest of our natural biomes, made up mostly of tiny slivers and corners, coppices scattered across the land. There are the greater forests of Knysna and places like Dukuduku in KwaZulu-Natal, but political, social and commercial forces are putting enormous strain on these.
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/ 23 November 2006
A total of 303 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have been confirmed across the country, the Department of Health said on Thursday. ”They are in the hospitals, they are on treatment. Some of them have died,” said the department’s head of TB, Dr Lindiwe Mvusi. Mvusi did not have details at hand of how many had died.
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/ 23 November 2006
The noose on companies violating employment-equity laws is to be tightened, the Labour Department said on Thursday. It quoted Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana as saying earlier this week: ”The issue of employment-equity violation is going to be my project next year.”
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/ 22 November 2006
Over five million South African pupils and 13Â 000 schools will be exempt from school fees from January, the Department of Education said on Wednesday. ”The Department of Education wishes to announce that all the nine provincial departments of education have submitted their lists of the number of learners and schools [that] would benefit,” the department said in a statement.
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/ 17 November 2006
A fortnight ago, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched its Human Development Report 2006 in Cape Town — a diabolically appropriate choice. South Africa is apparently considered the UNDP’s ideal setting — and maybe deservedly so — for what might be called ”talk left” policies accompanied by ”turn right” practices: turning the tap off, that is to say.
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/ 17 November 2006
A grade eight pupil is to appear in the Frankfort Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly stabbing a classmate, Free State police said. Following the incident on Tuesday at 8am, police arrested an 18-year-old pupil at the Reseng Thabo High School in Tweeling, said Captain Hennie Labuschagne. The victim was in the classroom together with his classmates.
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/ 15 November 2006
Following the recent announcement by the Department of Health on the revised dispensing fee, South African retailer Pick ‘n Pay announced on Wednesday that all medicine prices in its pharmacies will remain at the current levels until the end of this year.
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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
Nine African elephants in KwaZulu-Natal facing death following a successful land claim were moved to a wildlife sanctuary in Limpopo over the weekend, animal rights activists said on Tuesday. The previous land owners were planning to kill the elephants as the new owners intended using the land solely for farming, said Animal Rights Africa’s Michele Pickover.
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/ 13 November 2006
Judge Hilary Squires’s denial that he had referred to a ”generally corrupt relationship” between former deputy president Jacob Zuma and Schabir Shaik has no legal implications, said the National Prosecuting Authority on Monday. The denial has led to fierce comment from political parties and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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/ 13 November 2006
The search for four crew members of a supply tug that went missing on the KwaZulu-Natal coast last week will continue indefinitely, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday. ”We’re not speculating that the crew may have drowned,” said NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.
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/ 9 November 2006
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik cut a lonely figure in the back of the police van that carried him through the gates of Durban’s Westville Prison on Thursday. It was the start of the 15-year sentence for fraud and corruption that the former financial adviser to Jacob Zuma had tried so desperately to avoid, but his hopes were dashed by a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday.
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/ 9 November 2006
Convicted fraud convict Schabir Shaik handed himself over at the Durban High Court around 8.30am on Thursday. The Durban businessman, also convicted of corruption, was expected to arrive at Durban Westville Prison later in the morning to start serving a 15-year jail term.
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/ 8 November 2006
For many HIV-positive people in South Africa’s Embo area, south-west of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, accessing treatment at public health facilities is as difficult as navigating the steep and muddy paths between their homes. People from these parts usually have to travel distances of up to 25km to access treatment.
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/ 7 November 2006
A KwaZulu-Natal businessman who was arrested at Cape Town International Airport for joking about bombs in his bag was on Monday released on R2 000 bail. Mluleki Thokozani Zulu (42), of Mkuze in KwaZulu-Natal, appeared in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court.