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The blame for power cuts that hit large parts of the country over the weekend and continue in the Western Cape lies squarely with Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks and the African National Congress, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. The Western Cape, including Cape Town, was without power for most of Sunday.
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It is not every day that the president visits your house, but for Sandra and Beauty Maluleka the moment was so big they believe he ”cured” Beauty’s sickness. President Thabo Mbeki was electioneering in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, where introduced voters to the African National Congress candidates in their wards.
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/ 20 February 2006
A man suspected of murdering a Pretoria woman whose corpse was found in a car boot earlier this month was rearrested on Monday after his case was struck off the roll in the city’s regional court earlier in the day. Danie van der Walt, from Meyers Park, was rearrested him within an hour of the case being struck off.
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/ 20 February 2006
The Mamelodi campus of the University of Pretoria has been closed down for a week amid intimidation by striking students, the Student Representative Council (SRC) said. SRC deputy president Adel Vlok said students were ”using foul language and getting aggressive”.
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/ 20 February 2006
Three tourists were killed and four others were injured in an accident at the Shamwari Game Reserve near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. Spokesperson Superintendent Michelle Matroos said the driver at the reserve was taking seven visitors sightseeing on Sunday afternoon when he experienced difficulties on an uphill slope.
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/ 20 February 2006
The Transnet strike has severely affected Metrorail in the West Rand — most seriously in Soweto — an official said on Monday. ”We are not able to run a service, even with our contingency plan on the Soweto line,” said Thandi Mlangeni, Metrorail’s spokesperson.
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Protests against the incorporation of Khutsong into the North West province will end in time for the March 1 elections to take place there, African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota told the South African Broadcating Corporation on Sunday.
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/ 19 February 2006
Power had been restored to large parts of the Western Cape by Sunday afternoon, Eskom spokesperson Fani Zulu said. The entire Western Cape was without power early on Sunday following faults on transmission lines because of misty conditions and residual pollution from recent fires.
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/ 19 February 2006
Murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble had an intimate relationship with a young man, the Afrikaans-language <i>Rapport</i> newspaper reported on Sunday. The newspaper said the relationship came to light during the investigation into the wealthy businessman’s shooting death in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs in 2005.
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/ 19 February 2006
The South African women’s hockey team emerged as convincing champions of the inaugural Spar Cup at the Queensmead Astroturf in Durban on Saturday. They defeated Scotland 4-0 in the final to take top honours in the four-nation tournament. The first half saw an expert display from the South African side.
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/ 19 February 2006
Never write off a Cheetah — especially a wounded one. That was the lesson the Sharks learnt at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday when they lost their home Super 14 rugby encounter against the Free Staters by a single point in a 26-27 defeat, in which the Cheetahs also picked up a valuable bonus point.
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/ 19 February 2006
Veteran wing John Daniels scored a brace of tries as the Lions downed Western Province 24-20 in their Vodacom Cup match at Newlands on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Wildebeest produced one of the biggest upsets of this year’s Vodacom Cup when they beat the Blue Bulls in Durban.
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/ 19 February 2006
The Waratahs put in a strong second-half showing to beat the Stormers 32-26 in an action-packed Super 14 match at Newlands on Saturday evening. Trailing 20-10 at the break, the Waratahs’ superior experience and quality at the back ultimately told as they managed to feast off the Stormers’ mistakes.
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/ 19 February 2006
Defending champions Kaizer Chiefs limped to the top of the Premier Soccer League log with an anxious, unimpressive 2-1 victory over Dynamos on a slippery, rain-affected FNB Stadium pitch on Saturday night. Meanwhile, Bush Bucks beat a 10-man Jomo Cosmos 2-1 in a fast and entertaining match played in Katlehong on Saturday.
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Municipal councillors are the servants of the people and not the bosses of the communities, Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi told party supporters in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, on Saturday. Buthelezi was speaking during the IFP’s local government election campaign in the province.
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The African Christian Democratic Party will on Monday approach the Constitutional Court over a ruling that disqualified it from contesting the local government elections in Cape Town. The ACDP was disqualified from contesting the March 1 elections after it did not include the metropole when it paid its election fees.
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Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon welcomed former New National Party (NNP) leader in the Free State Inus Aucamp into the party during a local government election rally in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Leon told about 800 supporters at the Oranje Girls High School his party is grateful and glad to have Aucamp in its ranks.
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African National Congress chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota warned Khutsong residents on Saturday afternoon that those who participate in ”destruction” in the area will be dealt with by police. Some community members threatened earlier this week to boycott the upcoming local government elections.
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/ 19 February 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday hailed the recent democratic elections in Haiti and presidential winner René Préval. However, Mbeki’s message said nothing about the future for Haiti’s former president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, who has been living in exile in South Africa for about two years.
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/ 19 February 2006
A Cape Town-based property magnate on Saturday criticised the proposed moratorium on the sale of South African land to foreigners. The Democratic Alliance also criticised the proposal on Friday, saying it could have profoundly negative economic consequences for South Africa.
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/ 19 February 2006
The entire Western Cape was without power early on Sunday and no trains were running following faults on transmission lines that were the result of misty conditions and residual pollution from recent fires, according to Eskom. Meanwhile, power failures also affected northern Johannesburg and most parts of Ekurhuleni.
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/ 18 February 2006
These are early days yet and the South African Football Association may need the wisdom of Solomon in making the final choice — but according to a public poll instituted by Kickoff magazine, Gordon Igesund is the front-runner in the race to be the next Bafana Bafana coach. The smooth-talking Igesund has received 28,5% of the votes in the ongoing poll.
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/ 18 February 2006
Gauteng’s Tebogo Mashela (Absa/University of Johannesburg) blitzed her way on Friday to a new South African record in the 3 000m women’s steeple chase. After two events in Secunda and Tswane in January, and one in Stellenbosch earlier this month, this was the fourth Athletics South Africa Champions Challenge event.
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/ 18 February 2006
The Free State will spend almost half of its R11,6-billion budget for the 2006/07 financial year on education, provincial finance minister Tate Makgoe said on Friday. ”Education produces future leaders. [It is] an investment into the future of the province,” Makgoe said after delivering the provincial budget in Bloemfontein.
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/ 18 February 2006
A Nigerian citizen stripped naked in protest on Friday when the Johannesburg metro police tried to arrest him. Metro police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the incident began on the corner of Polly and Grahamstown streets in Jeppestown, where the man was repairing a car in the road.
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/ 18 February 2006
The heaviest rains in nearly 20 years have killed five people in Lesotho and forced thousands more to flee their homes, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Friday. The Lesotho disaster-management authority said bridges, houses and fields of crops were swept away or buried in landslides.
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/ 17 February 2006
An escort-agency owner who murdered his sister-in-law and her husband, and then carried on with his life for three years before his wife exposed him, was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment on Friday. Abraham Carel Koekemoer (49) did not show much emotion after being sentenced for the December 2002 murders.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has singled out President Thabo Mbeki and Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang for criticism in a hard-hitting report to the African Peer Review Mechanism lashing the government’s response to the Aids pandemic. ”There has been a lack of leadership from the highest political level,” the TAC said.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s Durban district chairperson, James Maphalala, who was also an eThekwini municipal councillor, has died at his home in Lindelani, KwaZulu-Natal, after a long illness, the IFP said on Friday. IFP deputy national chairperson Velaphi Ndlovu expressed condolences to Maphalala’s family.
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/ 17 February 2006
Transnet will consider a proposal for mediation in the ongoing dispute with labour over the restructuring of the parastatal, a spokesperson said on Friday. John Dludlu said the company has informed the four labour unions involved in the dispute that it will consider their proposal for mediation as early as this weekend.
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/ 17 February 2006
Reminiscing on a 20-year political career, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Friday longed for the day when municipal councillors thrived on serving their constituencies. When he was elected to his first office in 1986, there were five words every councillor had to learn to keep voters happy: ”How can I help you?”, Leon said.
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/ 17 February 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s 10th Budget, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, reflects the correctness of the government’s economic policy path since coming to power in 1994, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. The president noted widespread praise in the media and elsewhere for the 2006/07 Budget.