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Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe has recused himself from the rape trial of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma. He told the Johannesburg High Court he is stepping aside, but not for the reasons put forward by Zuma’s defence. Zuma addressed about 3Â 000 supporters outside the court after Ngoepe recused himself.
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SA Rugby president Brian van Rooyen has declined to comment on reports that Bok coach Jake White was trying to canvass votes on his behalf, News24 reported on Monday. It quoted him as saying he would not do or say anything that would adversely affect anyone in the run-up to the SA Rugby election on February 24.
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Police have made no breakthroughs yet in the murder of a Pretoria woman found in the boot of her boyfriend’s car over the weekend. Marlene Mauer (20), of Erasmia, east of Pretoria, appeared to have been killed by several blows to her head with a blunt object, said Inspector Lucas Sithole.
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The Constitutional Court will decide on Tuesday whether it can be directly accessed by the Matatiele municipality and others over a demarcation dispute. The municipality wants the court to rule on the constitutionality of the Twelfth Constitutional Amendment and the Cross-Boundary Municipalities Laws Repeal and Related Matters Act.
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A 35-year-old Blue Bulls rugby player was arrested early on Monday morning when he drove into a police vehicle near the Petroport, north of Pretoria, police said on Monday. ”He was so drunk he could not even stand properly,” police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramatoko said.
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Baby Jordan Leigh Norton’s biological father, Neil Wilson, burst out in tears when he heard that the child had been murdered, a former friend of his told the Cape High Court on Monday. Arendene Fourie said she had been good friends with Wilson, his then girlfriend, Dina Rodrigues, who is now on trial for the murder, and the infant’s mother, Natasha Norton.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on the world’s powerful nations to act immediately to help Africa extricate herself from problems like conflict, famine and disease. Speaking on M-Net’s Carte Blanche programme, Blair said it was high time that the world’s major players stopped debating Africa’s problems.
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Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe demanded to know what corruption and rape had in common as he heard an application for his own recusal from the rape trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Monday. Herman Broodryk, a member of the prosecution team, said Ngoepe had not made a credibility finding about Zuma when he granted the search warrants.
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The South African Treasury should set aside about R1,1-billion a year to increase the pace of land reform and protect the principle of willing buyer, willing seller, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance in its alternative Budget released ahead of Wednesday’s national Budget by Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
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Trade unions locked in a dispute with state-owned Transnet over restructuring have postponed their strike in the Eastern Cape until Friday to give the labour structures in the province enough time to finalise logistics and other outstanding issues, it emerged on Monday.
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Lawyers for Jacob Zuma have asked Transvaal Provincial Division Judge President Bernard Ngoepe to recuse himself from the former deputy president’s rape trial. Advocate Kemp Kemp said the reason for the recusal was because of past events, a reference to Ngoepe issuing the Scorpions a search warrant for several Zuma premises as well as those of his lawyers and associates.
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Anglo Platinum has announced a significant improvement in headline earnings for the year ended 31 December 2005. Headline earnings per share, attributable to ordinary shareholders, rose by 63,1% to R18,28 a share, it said on Monday. Contributing factors included higher United States dollar prices of metals sold, increased sales volumes, and gains on the repatriation of US dollar revenue.
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Orlando Pirates’ complement of players in Bafana Bafana’s ill-fated African Nations Cup campaign experienced mixed levels of success — and the group have provided an equally mixed legacy on their return to the Buccaneers’ training camp. A Buccaneers spokesperson revealed Benedict Vilakazi returned from Egypt with a hamstring injury, which is expected to keep him out of soccer for two to four weeks.
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The controversial song Msholozi — Jacob Zuma’s clan name — kicked off a carnival atmosphere at the former deputy president’s rape trial on Monday. The song, by the group Izinganizoma, called for charges against Zuma to be dropped.
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The main instrument of the state to effect change was the Budget and the government needed to be bolder in redistributing resources, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Sunday. ”The last Budget was marginally expansive and we must continue with that trend, but we see no radical change … if we don’t put money aside it’s all just dreams,” said Tony Ehrenreich, Cosatu’s Western Cape provincial secretary.
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The rape trial of former president Jacob Zuma gets under way in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday with Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe presiding over it. Zuma is accused of raping a close family friend and HIV positive Aids activist at his house in Forest Town in November last year — a charge he has repeatedly denied.
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/ 12 February 2006
South Africans of all colours this weekend celebrated the return to its original name of Johannesburg’s most famous suburb, once blighted by apartheid bulldozers more than half-a-century ago. The working-class area in western Johannesburg was renamed Sophiatown on Saturday as it was once known by the 65 000 black residents who lived there before being forcibly removed by the white minority government in 1955.
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The Stormers opened their Super 14 account with a well thought out display of rugby to outwit the Cats 23-12 at Ellis Park on Saturday. Playing on a greasy turf after a day of persistent rain in Johannesburg, the Cape Town-based Stormers cleverly opted to play running rugby rather than to take the cautious approach applied by the Cats.
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Attempts by robbers to break into the house of the Eastern Cape health MEC raised suspicion on Saturday as to whether he was being targeted, his office said. Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said MEC Bevan Goqwana noticed on Saturday morning that attempts had been made to gain entry into his Southernwood home in Mthatha.
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Elected Inkatha Freedom Party councillors found guilty of any act of corruption will be removed from office, party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Saturday. Speaking at an election campaign in Amajuba District, Buthelezi said there was ”no room at all for frittering away the limited funds through corruption”, especially when it came to delivering services to rural municipalities.
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The Cape Cobras eliminated defending champions the Titans at the semifinal stage when they won their Standard Bank Pro20 match at SuperSport Park by 22 runs on Saturday. Australian Ian Harvey, who had scored just 52 runs in five innings in the competition, finally pitched up at the crease — and in a big way.
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South Africa’s former deputy president Jacob Zuma was steadily working his way to the highest office when his career crashed under corruption and rape charges. Zuma, who goes on trial on Monday for the rape of a 31-year-old woman, rose from poverty and moved rapidly through the ranks of Africa’s oldest liberation movement, the governing African National Congress (ANC).
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/ 11 February 2006
The reclaiming and renaming of Sophiatown, which has had two names for far too long, is a past we dare not forget, said Johannesburg Mayor Amos Masondo on Saturday. Masondo was speaking at a ceremony to rename Triomf back to Sophiatown, west of Johannesburg.
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President Thabo Mbeki has appointed a commission of inquiry into the alleged corrupt involvement of South African companies in the United Nation’s oil-for-food programme. Advocate Michael Donen SC would chair the commission, with advocate Khehla Chauke and Senior Superintendent Lucy Moleko as additional members, the Presidency said on Friday.
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An application for the recusal of Judge Bernard Ngoepe from former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s rape trial is on the cards, media reports said on Saturday. Citing an unnamed legal source, the Saturday Star said an application for Ngoepe’s recusal would likely be discussed in the preparation of Zuma’s defence.
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/ 10 February 2006
The police’s water wing and the Ekurhuleni emergency services had to evacuate Atlasville residents from homes flooded in a heavy downpour on Friday. Police said several blocks of the Boksburg suburb were flooded by a cloudburst. The storm, accompanied by hail, delayed outgoing flights at Johannesburg International airport.
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/ 10 February 2006
President Thabo Mbeki has appointed a commission of inquiry into the alleged illicit activities of certain South African companies or individuals relating to the United Nations oil-for-food programme in Iraq. The commission will be chaired by advocate Michael Donen.
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma goes on trial in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday for allegedly raping a family friend. Zuma (63), who has not yet pleaded to the charge, is out on R20Â 000 bail. Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe will preside over the trial.
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/ 10 February 2006
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool has again raised the prospect of a provincial development levy to boost funds for subsidised housing. Speaking at the opening of the provincial legislature on Friday, Rasool said it has become clear that the current subsidy budget is inadequate for growing housing demand.
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Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota must hand over certain documents about the multibillion-rand arms deal to Richard Young, whose company CCII Systems was one of the losing bidders, the Pretoria High Court decided on Friday. Judge Brian Southwood turned down Lekota’s application for leave to appeal against a judgement given last year.
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Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Anton Rupert, who died in January, has been described as ”a man of worth” by President Thabo Mbeki. In his regular internet column on Friday, ANC Today, Mbeki described Rupert as ”as an outstanding son of our people”.
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During a protest outside the Danish embassy in Pretoria on Friday, South African Muslims have demanded an apology from the Danish government for the publication in one of its newspapers of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.