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/ 13 December 2005
An application for the setting aside of an arrest warrant for an information technology consultant implicated in an alleged National Intelligence Agency hoax e-mail scam was put on ice on Tuesday. The application was removed from the Pretoria High Court’s urgent roll by consent of all the parties involved.
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/ 13 December 2005
The South African government says an investment climate survey — a joint Department of Trade and Industry and World Bank initiative — has provided encouraging information as well as challenges as the country prepares to embark on accelerated growth.
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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
In an exciting finish, the Nashua Dolphins beat the Mercedes Warriors by three wickets with five balls to spare in a Standard Bank Cup cricket match at Mercedes-Benz Park in East London on Monday. Everything seemed to be going the Warriors’ way until the advent of Dolphins skipper Lance Klusener.
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/ 13 December 2005
The grim reality of facing a charge of rape will not result in Orlando Pirates midfield dynamo Benedict Vilakazi being declared ineligible for the African Nations Cup tournament. ”The decision was left to the coach,” said South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack. ”Safa decided not to interfere with his decision.”
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/ 13 December 2005
Squirming and defiant to the end, controversial Bafana Bafana general manager Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala has been removed from his position with the national team for the forthcoming African Nations Cup tournament in Egypt. The decision was confirmed on Monday by South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack.
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/ 13 December 2005
Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils is on his way to Zimbabwe to fetch a South African agent jailed there for spying on the ruling Zanu-PF. ”Yes, Minister Kasrils is on his way to Johannesburg International airport now. He will probably board a flight at about 10am,” his spokesperson Lorna Daniels said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 December 2005
Sanlam, one of South Africa’s largest life insurers, on Monday confirmed the cost to it of the announced joint settlement agreement between the life-insurance industry and National Treasury at R600-million (pre-tax). Sanlam CEO Johan van Zyl earlier on Monday said that the post-tax cost would be R500-million.
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/ 13 December 2005
Adding zinc to the diets of HIV-positive children helps protect them, researchers report.
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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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/ 13 December 2005
South African government officials at the highest level would not be drawn on Monday evening on reports that South African spy Aubrey Welken would be brought home from Zimbabwe on Tuesday. Welken was arrested by Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Organisation operatives at Victoria Falls on December 10 2004.
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/ 12 December 2005
Two children died in Pola Park east of Johannesburg on Monday after their mother’s ex-boyfriend allegedly set fire to the shack they were sleeping in, police said. The man, in his 40s, had an argument with the children’s mother while she was with her boyfriend in a shack at the Britti squatter camp on Sunday night, police said.
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/ 12 December 2005
Lawyers for Trevor Ncube, owner of the Mail & Guardian, will be filing an urgent application in the Zimbabwe High Court on Monday against that country’s relevant authorities to explain why his passport was confiscated last week. ”I don’t see why they would not want to give me back my passport,” Ncube said on Monday morning.
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/ 12 December 2005
The state has failed to prove its corruption case against former Western Cape premier Peter Marais, his lawyer told the Bellville Regional Court on Monday when applying for his client’s discharge. Marais’s co-accused, former Western Cape environment minister David Malatsi, has also applied for his discharge.
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/ 12 December 2005
Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, whose alter ego is Evita Bezuidenhout, has sent a Christmas message to South Africa and President Thabo Mbeki. He has played on the words of the Lord’s Prayer in what he described as a festive-season message of good hope for South Africa.
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/ 12 December 2005
A man was arrested for driving at 219kph on the N3 highway in Linksfield on Sunday morning, metropolitan police said. Ekurhuleni metropolitan police spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng said the man, driving a BMW, was arrested in an anti-speeding operation held between 6am and 10am.
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/ 12 December 2005
Having carved a niche as South Africa’s first black showjumper in a sport traditionally reserved for rich whites, Enos Mafokate has now taken his love for horses to the heart of Soweto township. Mafokate is cultivating the hope that township children will one day too fly high the colours of South Africa’s rainbow nation.
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/ 12 December 2005
Newly elected Côte d’Ivoire Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny on Sunday said he is confident that the task of organising new elections as well as disarming fighters in the divided West African state will be met. Banny met South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday for talks.
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/ 12 December 2005
The share price of hotel and gaming group Sun International jumped as much as 4,6% or R3,50 on Monday morning after the company said it expects adjusted headline earnings per share for the half-year ending December 31 to be between 30% and 40% higher than those of a year earlier.
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/ 12 December 2005
The Titans jumped back to the top of the Standard Bank Cup table after stuttering to an exciting two-wicket win over the luckless Cape Cobras at Supersport Park on Sunday. The visitors now prop up the bottom of the log without a win in five outings. Set a small target of 171, the Titans got off to a cautious start.
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/ 12 December 2005
Okkert Brits, the South African pole-vault champion and record holder, recorded his best height of 2005 at a special pole-vault contest in Bellville over the weekend when he cleared an excellent 5,65m. It was his first competition since winning the national title in Durban in April with a modest 5,2m.
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/ 12 December 2005
In only his second tournament following a five-month injury break, Ernie Els returned to the winner’s enclosure at the Dunhill Championship on Sunday. Els may have coughed and spluttered through the early rounds at the par-72 Leopard Creek golf course this week, but class and experience told in the final round.
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/ 12 December 2005
The decision by the Cabinet to go ahead with the R20-billion Gautrain project will be a decision that in all likelihood it will live to regret, the Democratic Alliance spokesperson on transport, Stuart Farrow, said on Sunday. The parliamentary portfolio committee on transport’s concerns seem to have been ignored, he said.
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/ 12 December 2005
Residents of Khutsong on the West Rand of Gauteng will hold a protest and stayaway on Monday against a decision to incorporate the community into the North West province. The community believes it will receive better services from the wealthier Gauteng province. The government has denied this.
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/ 12 December 2005
Flight schedules at Cape Town International airport might be running on time again from Monday morning, South African Airways said on Sunday evening after many flights were delayed at the weekend due to a lack of jet fuel. Meanwhile, Cape Town and Johannesburg motorists have been warned to fill up with petrol while they can.
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/ 11 December 2005
Fuel tanks were still dry at Cape Town International airport on Sunday, South African Airways said. Tanks ran dry on Saturday, causing airlines and passengers major inconvenience — Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan apparently suffered a delay of six hours on a flight to Johannesburg.
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/ 11 December 2005
The Durban home of the 31-year-old woman who has accused former deputy president Jacob Zuma of raping her was broken into and trashed days after he was formally charged, City Press reported on Sunday. Kwa-Mashu police confirmed they are investigating the incident.
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/ 11 December 2005
Ulrich van den Berg has acknowledged that invaluable encouragement from veteran golfer Fulton Allem has given him the conviction to win a tournament like the Dunhill Championship. He will have the perfect opportunity to achieve that aim on Sunday when he takes a two-shot lead into the final round.
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/ 11 December 2005
Dynamos earned three valuable points when they beat high-riding Ajax Cape Town one-nil at a windy Athlone Stadium on Saturday night. The only goal was scored in the 35th minute. Ajax were all over the visitors but poor passing and shooting saw them finish goalless.
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/ 11 December 2005
Bush Bucks and Moroka Swallows shared the points with a one-all draw in their Premier Soccer League match in East London on Saturday. It was a game of two halves, with the first half belonging to the Birds, who raided the Bucks’ goal mouth but failed to finish, with Mamecheick Niang and Dennis Lotter the main culprits.
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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.