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/ 24 January 2006
The Nelson Mandela metropolitan council has dropped plans to rebury the remains of President Thabo Mbeki’s late father, Govan, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. The municipality earlier announced plans to relocate his remains to the newly built Red Location Museum. However, the family objected.
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/ 23 January 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has yet to receive a complaint by the Democratic Alliance about its handling of the Oilgate scandal, spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said on Monday. ”When the said complaint is brought to the NPA’s attention, it will be given due consideration on the basis of its merits,” he said.
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/ 23 January 2006
The imminent fight for the presidency of the South African Rugby Union between incumbent president Brian van Rooyen and the man opposing him, KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins, will not end in a blood bath, Hoskins said on Monday. Hoskins confirmed last week Friday that he would be contesting SA Rugby’s presidency.
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/ 23 January 2006
Despite a well-managed start to the 2006 school year, problems remain in the primary-school sector, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. ”The gross enrolment rate is excellent, but reading and writing skills are not,” she said at a ceremony to rename Ga-Rankuwa’s Agisanang Primary School the Tim Modise Primary School.
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/ 23 January 2006
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Political parties have until Tuesday to rectify mistakes on their lists of proportional representation candidates for the March 1 election, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said at Monday’s handover to Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa of the 2004 electoral atlas on poll behaviour in South Africa.
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/ 23 January 2006
Malaria has claimed the lives of six of 483 people hospitalised for the mosquito-borne disease in Gauteng this year. The health department has denied that there is an outbreak of malaria in the province. ”We don’t have that breed of mosquitoes in Gauteng,” spokesperson Bhungani ka Mzolo said on Monday.
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Opportunities to tackle poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment have never been better, the African National Congress said on Monday. All South Africans should throw their weight behind this task, the party said after the annual lekgotla (meeting) of its national executive council at the weekend.
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/ 23 January 2006
Three more people were arrested for public violence during a service-delivery protest in Mabopane on Monday, bringing the number of arrests to 11, North West police said. Captain Thabo Makhafola said the arrests were made between 3am and 10am after a crowd of about 500 protesting poor service delivery turned violent.
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/ 23 January 2006
Three shabbily dressed men appeared in the Randburg Regional Court on Monday for the 1999 murder of Young Koo Kwon, the local president of the Daewoo Motor Corporation. Thomas Tshabalala (28), Bheki Simelani (29) and Mokwa Sedikane (32) were not asked to plead.
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/ 23 January 2006
The health department says inaccurate reporting of new cases of cancer in South Africa was making it difficult to fight the disease.
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/ 23 January 2006
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal has expressed shock at an Inkatha Freedom Party ultimatum to its councillors in the Umuziwabantu municipality on the South Coast to reinstate a suspended manager, or face dismissal. The IFP claims the ultimatum to its councillors was intended to ensure they follow procedure.
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/ 23 January 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The ruling African National Congress’s promise to clear 215Â 000 bucket toilets within a year — part of its local-government campaign pledge — is "simply not going to happen", says official opposition leader Tony Leon. He said the ANC has "systematically broken the promises it made in its 2000 local government manifesto".
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/ 23 January 2006
The national director of public prosecutions has refused to take any action on the Oilgate scandal for six months, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance. Spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt said the National Prosecuting Authority’s failure to take any action on this matter "is disgraceful and only serves to give the impression that it is desperately hoping the matter with simply go away".
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/ 23 January 2006
The Gauteng department of local government on Sunday announced it would be looking into closing all open manholes that were no longer in use. This follows the death of Mpho Raliete (3) of Katlehong on the East Rand, who died after falling into a manhole on Friday. The child’s body was washed through the sewage line and found 15km away at the treatment plant in Kliprivier.
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/ 23 January 2006
Listed health and beauty retailer New Clicks has reported a 15,1% increase in turnover for the four months to end-December 2005 compared to that of the year-earlier period. New Clicks said the group’s retail brands had increased sales by 9,8% during the period, while same-store sales were up 9,6%.
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/ 23 January 2006
Brian van Rooyen has vowed to fight off any attempt to unseat him as president of the South African Rugby Union (Saru), The Mercury website reported on Monday. Denying reports that he had been asked to leave, he said: ”I will make myself available for the elections on February 24. Reports that I have been asked to leave are factually incorrect.”
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/ 23 January 2006
The wife of the man allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail scandal on Sunday appealed to the public for help following his disappearance. Durban-based IT executive Muziwendoda Sikhona Kunene was last seen on Friday when his wife, Belinda, dropped him off at a BP garage to board a taxi to Sandton City.
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/ 22 January 2006
Hank McGregor and Martin Dreyer won the Hansa Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon in a titanic struggle with Ant Stott and Wayne Thompson, until the race was decided by an accident in a major rapid on the final leg from Inada Dam to Durban. Bad luck continued to plague the top crew of Shaun Biggs and Loveday Zondi.
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/ 22 January 2006
Showing vast improvement, the Southern Spears gave the Cats a good go for their money in going down 29-11 in their Super 14 warm-up match at the Absa Stadium on Saturday. The match was watched by a large, appreciative crowd dressed in red, but the weather was sultry enough to make even the skinniest person sweat.
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/ 22 January 2006
It was the Bryan Habana show at Newlands on Saturday as the brilliant wing ran in five tries in the Bulls’ 44-13 thumping of the Stormers. Although the Cape side fielded a predominantly second string, the Bulls will nevertheless take great satisfaction from the performance.
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/ 22 January 2006
A succession of guided Russian missiles in a penalty shoot-out that Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Rowen Fernandez had precious little chance of saving gave FC Moscow an entertaining, action-packed victory in the international club friendly at the FNB Stadium on Saturday night.
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/ 22 January 2006
A total of 108 people, most of them from the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress, joined the newly formed National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) in Gauteng on Saturday. ”Every week, we receive leaders of substance,” said Ziba Jiyane, Nadeco’s founder and national leader.
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/ 22 January 2006
A bizarre plan to relocate the remains of President Thabo Mbeki’s father to a Port Elizabeth struggle museum has been slammed as illegal and immoral by his family, the Sunday Times reported in its first edition. The plan is driven by Nelson Mandela metro mayor Nceba Faku and was detailed by the municipality last week.
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/ 22 January 2006
The African National Congress in the Western Cape and the Democratic Alliance in Pretoria reported on Saturday that both parties’ election posters were being removed. The DA filed charges against five people on Saturday afternoon for allegedly removing DA election posters in Centurion.
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/ 22 January 2006
No aircraft other than a sophisticated Gulfstream V intercontinental jet was available to take Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to Sun City this week, Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota said on Saturday. According to media reports, the 13-minute journey cost taxpayers an estimated R75 000, and use of alternative planes could have cost less than half that amount.
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/ 21 January 2006
Winning cricket returned to Newlands on Friday night as the Cape Cobras celebrated their first limited-overs win of the season against the Dolphins in their opening Pro20 Series match. Since beating the Lions in a Supersport Series match in Johannesburg in November, the Cobras had played 11 matches in the various competitions without a victory.
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/ 21 January 2006
Springbok lock AJ Venter was at his enthusiastic best in Durban on Friday night when he led a rampaging Sharks side (a Raggies side on the night) to a 14-try romp against the Leopards who were savaged to the extent of 70-5. Furthermore, the Sharks’ second side (the Great Whites) got a five-to-two try account against the Leopards in a 25-10 win.
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/ 21 January 2006
Threats of sanctions are against Iran are immature, and a referral to the United Nations Security Council would not help alleviate the nuclear crisis in Iran, its acting Foreign Minister, Mehdi Mostafavi, said on Friday. Speaking after a week-long visit to South Africa, Mostafavi said Iran will not be deterred from its nuclear programme.
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/ 21 January 2006
An electricity blackout in Cape Town had nothing to do with the maintenance work at Koeberg nuclear power station, Eskom and the city of Cape Town said on Friday. ”It has nothing to do with us, it has to do with the City of Cape Town,” said Carien de Villiers, a spokesperson for Koeberg.
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/ 21 January 2006
The KwaZulu-Natal government has pulled out of the annual re-enactment of the historic Battle of Isandlwana on Saturday, costing the event a financial injection of R200 000. The treasury said anyone authorising expenditure on the event would have to reimburse the province with his or her own money.
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/ 20 January 2006
Opposition leader Tony Leon on Friday criticised the African National Congress government’s attempts to ”place the judiciary under executive control”. He said the 14th Constitution Amendment Bill would give ”power over the administration and budgets of courts to the minister of justice, effectively putting judges at her mercy”.
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/ 20 January 2006
The third accused in the Hoedspruit lion murder case, Richard Mathebula, has died in hospital, Polokwane police said on Friday. Superintendent Moatshe Ngoepe said Mathebula (36) died in the Nelspruit prison hospital after a long illness. Mathebula fell ill at the start of the trial in January last year.