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/ 23 November 2005
Ted Dumitru might be one of the few soccer voices not proclaiming in a loud and clear manner his imminent elevation as Bafana Bafana coach for the coming African Nations Cup tournament in Egypt — but the canny Romanian is predicting a major shake-up in the national team’s ranks nevertheless.
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/ 23 November 2005
Old Mutual on Tuesday apologised for any confusion and hurt caused by the arguments used by its counsel in the Labour Court racism case brought by a company employee, Xolile Finca. Finca claims Old Mutual did not act properly against another employee who allegedly referred to him as a ”kaffir”.
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/ 22 November 2005
The conflict in the African National Congress is not between a populist camp and a technocratic and aloof elite, according to United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa. ”This is hogwash,” Holomisa writes in a discussion document being circulated to party structures ahead of the party’s national congress next month.
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/ 22 November 2005
The Tshwane metropolitan council would not commit itself on Tuesday to removing all forms of advertising proclaiming Tshwane rather than Pretoria as South Africa’s capital. Such advertisements have been found to be misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority — a ruling the council said it respects.
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/ 22 November 2005
Cape Town motor mechanic Alan Gietzmann was on Tuesday found guilty of the premeditated murder of his teenaged girlfriend Caryn Lindesay. He was also convicted on five counts of incitement to rape or murder her. Cape High Court Judge Denis van Reenen said Gietzmann faces a ”very, very severe” penalty.
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/ 22 November 2005
At least nine of the University of South Africa’s (Unisa) top 28 officials earn considerably more than President Thabo Mbeki does — including his car allowance. At least 19 of the 28 earn more than Mbeki, excluding the allowance, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor has revealed in Parliament.
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/ 22 November 2005
A draft social plan to ease the effects of retrenching nearly 700 miners at De Beers’ underground operations in Kimberley has been formulated and presented for comment. This follows the decision in principle by De Beers Consolidated Mines to close its loss-making underground operations in Kimberley.
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/ 22 November 2005
More than a million South Africans registered to vote in next year’s municipal elections during the Independent Electoral Commission’s final registration drive over the weekend. This brings to 21-million the number of South Africans now on the voters’ roll. The country has a population of 43-million to 44-million.
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/ 22 November 2005
South African nuclear vendor PBMR has signed a contract with German company SGL Carbon for the supply of hardware for the construction of an envisaged demonstration power plant. The contract, worth about €20-million (or R154 million), was the largest hardware order placed by PBMR so far, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
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/ 22 November 2005
The Gauteng government plans to accelerate spending on infrastructure and social services in the next three years. Provincial minister for finance and economic affairs Paul Mashatile tabled the provincial medium-term budget policy statement to the Gauteng legislature on Tuesday.
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/ 22 November 2005
National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha’s application to have his suspension overturned was removed from the Pretoria High Court’s urgent roll on Tuesday and postponed indefinitely. Masetlha’s attorney, Imraan Haffegee, said his client will no longer pursue the matter in the form of an urgent application.
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/ 22 November 2005
South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance and its Mozambican counterpart, Renamo, have agreed to sign a record of understanding in the new year, the two parties announced on Tuesday. This follows a visit by DA leader Tony Leon to Mozambique to hold talks with Renamo, headed by Afonso Dhlakama.
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/ 22 November 2005
Both the media and the Western Cape Directorate for Public Prosecutions got a lashing in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday — the media for sensational coverage of the shoplifting case against the son of Cape Town mayor Normaindia Mfeketo, and the directorate for incompetence.
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/ 22 November 2005
A handful of residents of Kleinskool in Port Elizabeth were still burning tyres in the streets by 9am on Tuesday morning, in protest over alleged poor service delivery, Eastern Cape police said. Inspector Johan van Greunen said 10 people from the area set the tyres alight early in the morning.
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/ 22 November 2005
Crusty, ring-wise Romanian-born former Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates coach Ted Dumitru was on Monday unanimously proclaimed by the local soccer media as the hottest favourite to take over from Stuart Baxter as a caretaker Bafana Bafana coach for the African Nations Cup in Egypt early next year.
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/ 22 November 2005
Middle East-based news channel al-Jazeera International has opened offices in Johannesburg and has hired former South African Broadcasting Corporation senior reporter Kalay Maistry as its Southern Africa correspondent. Maistry, who has extensive broadcast journalism experience, described joining the channel as a ”fresh challenge”.
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/ 21 November 2005
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former financial adviser Addy Moolman is finally to start serving his four-year jail sentence, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday. Judge MF Legodi on Monday dismissed Moolman’s urgent application for bail, pending an application to the Constitutional Court about the constitutionality of his sentence.
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/ 21 November 2005
The matric results will be announced on December 29, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. The date was agreed to at a Council of Education Ministers meeting in Pretoria on Monday, where school uniforms, a language policy, new school premises and the Education Laws Amendment Bill were also discussed.
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/ 21 November 2005
The African National Congress on Monday called on its members to exercise ”caution and discipline” over their views on who is suitable for party leadership. In a lengthy statement after its weekend national executive committee meeting, the party said there is no conspiracy or divisions within the ANC, but noted that one of its new challenges is in-fighting and factionalism.
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/ 21 November 2005
President Thabo Mbeki called on Monday for good leadership in South African soccer. He was speaking at the laying of the foundation stone of the new headquarters of the South African Football Association at the FNB Stadium. ”Let us have a place where we can work and have good leadership,” he said.
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/ 21 November 2005
Vitamin entrepreneur Dr Matthias Rath has added Health-e news service to the long list of individuals and organisations he is suing for defamation with a R1,6-million claim. Health-e recently carried a series of investigative articles on Rath’s activities in Cape Town’s black townships.
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/ 21 November 2005
In an attempt to smooth ruffled feathers, South Africa’s churches came out in support of fast-food company Nando’s on Monday after it denied any involvement in an allegedly distasteful advertisement depicting Christ’s Last Supper. Nando’s was recently the target of an SMS and e-mail campaign opposing the advertisement.
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/ 21 November 2005
Gender equality is ”taking root” in African leadership, Pan African Parliament (PAP) president Gertrude Mongella said in Midrand on Monday. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s election as President of Liberia shows ”the equality of women and men in organs of power is taking root on this continent”, Mongella said on the first day of the PAP’s fourth ordinary session.
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/ 21 November 2005
Minutes after Rob Matthews heard his daughter’s killer wanted a retrial, the ransom he paid was returned to him, Independent Online reported on Monday. It said a cheque for R50 000 was handed over to Matthews by advocate Camilla Botes of the Johannesburg asset-forfeiture unit on Friday.
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/ 21 November 2005
The Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa (ABC) has formally adopted new rules on the way publishers report on their circulation figures. ”The ABC will now report audited circulation data on a quarterly basis,” it said on Monday. The new rules will apply to circulation data for the first quarter of 2006.
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/ 21 November 2005
The opposition Democratic Alliance party has urged the government not to use Zimbabwean flying instructors to train South African Air Force (SAAF) pilots. DA defence spokesperson Rafeek Shah questioned if Zimbabwean Air Force instructors have sufficient knowledge of, or experience with, SAAF aircraft.
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/ 21 November 2005
At least 85% of South Africans in need of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) had still not received them by mid-2005, a United Nations report revealed on Monday. The report said the South African Aids crisis shows no signs of abating. Preventing infection and providing ARVs is key to halting the death spiral from Aids on the continent.
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/ 21 November 2005
Last week’s discovery of mass graves in Namibia proves once again that truth often is the first casualty of war. In the conflict between the South African Defence Force and the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia, both sides were accomplished in propaganda by 1989.
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/ 21 November 2005
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If the rape claims against Jacob Zuma turn out to be ”serious allegations” and go to court, the party will take action, African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday at a media briefing on the party’s national executive committee meeting at the past weekend.
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/ 21 November 2005
South African Airways and SA Airlink will extend their existing partnership until October next year, the two airlines announced on Monday. They were to have ended their current commercial agreement at the end of this year, they said in a joint statement.
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/ 21 November 2005
The threat of an al-Qaeda bioterrorism attack was a ”clear and present danger of the highest order”, secretary general of international policing organisation Interpol Ronald Noble said on Monday. He was speaking in Cape Town at the opening of an Interpol-organised workshop for African police departments on bioterrorism — an attack using biological weapons such as anthrax, smallpox or plague.
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/ 21 November 2005
The port of Richards Bay, the largest in South Africa by volume, is to get a R600-million boost to improve its cargo handling capacity, a National Ports Authority official said. Port manager Thami Ntshingila said the investment, which will be made in 2006, will enable the port to handle increased cargo volumes spurred by the country’s economic growth.