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/ 22 December 2005
A series of dropped catches by the home team enabled the Eagles to run out victors by four wickets in their Standard Bank Cup cricket match at Kingsmead on Wednesday night. Chasing 182 runs to win, the Eagles scored the runs with just five balls remaining.
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/ 21 December 2005
This year’s matric exams were valid and credible, education quality assurance body Umalusi said on Wednesday in Pretoria. It found that the country’s matric, adult education and vocational examinations were conducted in line with policy and the results were valid, reliable, fair and credible, said Umalusi chairperson John Pampallis.
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/ 20 December 2005
A concerned father checking up on his holidaying daughter called her cellphone only to be told she had been murdered, said police. The 16-year-old girl had only minutes earlier been declared dead by paramedics called by a security guard to the scene of her stabbing.
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/ 20 December 2005
Rain and a drop in temperature to below 20 degrees Celsius are predicted for the entire coast from Plettenberg Bay to Durban on Christmas Day, according to the South African Weather Bureau. Mpumalanga and Limpopo will be hit by the colder, wetter weather late on Sunday, but Cape Town should experience fine Christmas weather.
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/ 20 December 2005
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has dismissed as false a news report that he had fallen out with party secretary general Musa Zondi. The report, in a KwaZulu-Natal newspaper, also said Buthelezi suspended Zondi at the weekend. ”Both claims are false,” Buthelezi said in a statement on Tuesday.
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/ 19 December 2005
Since the beginning of December, 560 people have been killed on South African roads — mostly due to drunken driving, driver fatigue and speeding. At about the same time last year, 726 road deaths had been reported. Road accidents have also decreased, from 619 up to this time in December 2004 to 466 thus far.
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/ 18 December 2005
Dean Elgar of Free State was unfortunate to just miss a well-deserved century by one run when he scored 99 against Border at Fort Hare University, Alice, on Saturday on the second day of the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Cricket Week. Elgar made his runs off 154 balls with eight fours and Free State totalled 192-6 in their 50 overs.
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/ 15 December 2005
Gauteng police put a halt to a meeting on Thursday at Khutsong Stadium by residents protesting their municipality’s incorporation into the North West from Gauteng. Although the situation in Khutsong remained calm on Thursday, police maintained a strong presence in the area.
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/ 15 December 2005
Word from Cape Town that Parliament had rubber-stamped a Bill that put an end to cross-border municipalities triggered violent protests in Khutsong on Wednesday. By evening, a police officer had been badly burnt during a petrol-bomb attack and five houses had been torched.
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/ 14 December 2005
The National Council of Provinces gave the final green light to controversial legislation doing away with cross-boundary municipalities on Wednesday. The changes have sparked vehement protests, particularly in Khutsong — a part of Merafong municipality — where residents have been staging violent protests.
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/ 14 December 2005
A night vigil led by the South African Communist Party in Khutsong, outside Carletonville, went ahead on Tuesday night, despite police declaring it illegal. The government decides on Wednesday whether the municipality, currently in Gauteng, will be incorporated into North West province.
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/ 13 December 2005
Anthony Egan reviews two new books, which go a considerable way to helping us see the new South African Police Service (SAPS) more fairly.
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/ 13 December 2005
The National Assembly on Tuesday approved legislation giving effect to the Constitution’s Twelfth Amendment that abolishes cross-boundary municipalities. This affects 17 municipalities, including the contentious ones of Merafong (Gauteng to North West) and Matatiele (KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape).
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/ 13 December 2005
A call for members of the public not to panic over fuel shortages was made by Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks in the National Assembly on Tuesday morning. In Gauteng, the problem has been exacerbated by panic buying among motorists who do not even need to fill up with fuel, she said.
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/ 13 December 2005
South Africa is set to ban the age-old Zulu custom of virginity testing on young girls, even though traditionalists have vowed to disregard the new measure. The tradition, which involves the inspection of girls’ genitalia, has drawn an outcry from human rights advocates who say it is an invasion of privacy and degrading towards women.
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/ 13 December 2005
Parliament will have an attentive audience on Wednesday when residents of Merafong municipality gather to hear the result of their demand to remain part of Gauteng province. On Monday, a protest march ended in the handing over of a memorandum calling for the proposal that Merafong be incorporated into North West to be withdrawn.
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/ 12 December 2005
As motorists struggled to find petrol on Monday, the government denied any fuel shortages inland. The situation inland constituted ”an inconvenience rather than a crisis”, and motorists should not wait for their tanks to empty before filling up, Minerals and Energy Minister Lindiwe Hendricks told reporters in Pretoria.
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/ 12 December 2005
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The claim that Jacob Zuma confessed to having had consensual sex with a woman he is alleged to have raped was ”manufactured” by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and the journalist who wrote the story, Zuma said in a statement on Monday.
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/ 11 December 2005
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board member Noluthando Gosa has resigned amid allegations of corporate mismanagement and corruption within the board, the Sunday Times reports. Gosa was herself under investigation for possible violations of corporate governance, the report reads.
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/ 10 December 2005
A suspected arsonist was arrested on Friday afternoon not far from the blaze that had been raging across the Oudekraal area on the Cape Peninsula since early on Friday morning, Working on Fire spokesperson Val Charlton said. She said a member of the public spotted the man trying to start a bush fire.
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/ 2 December 2005
The Constitutional Court judgement on same-sex marriages is a step backward that will have serious repercussions on the moral and social fabric of society, the Council of Muslim Theologians said on Friday. ”Same-sex marriages are a violation of the limits prescribed by the Almighty,” the council said in a statement.
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/ 2 December 2005
As long as there are taxpayers, there will always be room at the inn for the Zulu king, his wives, children, grandchildren and wives-to-be, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 1 December 2005
A teenage girl in KwaZulu-Natal has been arrested for stealing her friend’s two-month-old son in Ubombo near Umfolozi, police said on Thursday. Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said the 18-year-old girl snatched the baby while visiting his mother, Simo Phethelaphi Ngobe (22).
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/ 29 November 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party must choose whether to serve in an African National Congress-led KwaZulu-Natal provincial government or pull out, said ANC chief whip in the province Mtholephi Mthikhulu on Monday. Tensions flared over a motion from the ANC’s Cyril Xaba to oust the IFP’s caucus leader, Lionel Mtshali.
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/ 28 November 2005
According to the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Jacob Zuma (JZ) is subject to a political agenda that seeks to marginalise left and working-class forces to promote the interests of a small elite capitalist faction within the African National Congress.
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/ 28 November 2005
”I am tiring of technocratic talk. Joel Netshitenzhe’s most recent statement, that the government would not change its mind on the provinces it has assigned to cross-border municipalities because to give in to peoples’s demands would be a ‘perverse incentive’, is really so much hogwash,” writes Rapule Tabane.
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/ 26 November 2005
In South Africa’s picturesque but Aids-ravaged Zulu heartland, the pandemic is rarely discussed and victims suffer in silence due to a mixture of ignorance, denial and fear. Nokuthula (54), who has been living with the disease for several years, says: ”If I tell the other people, they will be frightened and they will think I am going to die.”
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/ 25 November 2005
”If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do,” said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.
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/ 25 November 2005
SA betrays Palestinians I want to remind President Thabo Mbeki of the blatant betrayal committed by the silence of our government in the face of the daily humiliation, torture and bombing of the oppressed people of Palestine by the racist, bloodthirsty Israeli regime. The Palestine Liberation Organisation adopted and acted on the principle that Palestine […]
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/ 25 November 2005
A corrupting silence In drawing attention to the current anti-intellectual populism in South Africa, Graeme Bloch (”Where did the left go wrong?”, September 15) emphasises the need for humanist values and asks ”how we fell so quickly from political and moral leadership, integrity and worldwide respect”. In the same edition Ivor Chipkin questions the state […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Kirby’s nuclear ignorance Robert Kirby writes complete nonsense (”Alex in wonderland”, August 25) when he says Russia’s Chernobyl nuclear power station ”went out of control because of what Nersa [the National Electricity Regulator] recently diagnosed at Koeberg”. The primary reason for the accident at Chernobyl was a crazy reactor design that would never be allowed […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Take crime seriously! Sadly, Justine White’s experience of ill-treatment by the police is not isolated and Booysens is not the only police station where people who report crimes are treated shabbily (”The police must also respect the Constitution”, November 10). As a relative newcomer to South Africa, it saddens me and makes me angry. On […]