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South Africa

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/ 4 July 2008

Pikoli: Mbeki never ordered halt to Selebi probe

President Thabo Mbeki never ordered a stop to the prosecution of police chief Jackie Selebi, suspended prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli said on Friday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2008

Warning sounded as business confidence dips again

The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s business confidence index declined further to 92,6 in June.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2008

Court hears of Motata’s use of foul language

Being singled out as ”the white guy” is what prompted Richard Baird to record Judge Nkola Motata’s rantings, a court heard on Friday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2008

Police helicopter crashes in Soweto

Three police officers have been seriously injured after their helicopter crashed in Meadowlands, Soweto, on Friday morning, said Gauteng police.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2008

South Africans warned over poor savings culture

The majority of South Africans will retire with insufficient resources, the South African Savings Institute said in Johannesburg on Friday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2008

O’Sullivan takes Selebi to court over dismissal

Former airport security boss Paul O’Sullivan has filed court papers against suspended police chief Jackie Selebi to challenge his 2003 dismissal.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2008

Turning back time: Age cheating in football

Poverty, limited life chances and the desire to win at all costs are contributing to an epidemic of age cheating in football.

By Zodidi Mhlana
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/ 4 July 2008

Hlophe divides to rule

A divide-and-rule strategy has emerged from the response of Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe to the complaint laid against him.

By Mandy Rossouw
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/ 4 July 2008

ANC boss accuses judges of conspiracy against Zuma

African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe has launched an extraordinary attack on the country’s top judges.

By Matuma Letsoala, Mandy Rossouw and Sello S Alcock
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/ 4 July 2008

Politics 101

Many leaders of the ANC and its left-wing allies are avidly waiting for the government jobs that will open up after next year’s elections.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2008

Price strikes to hit SA

Cosatu is determined to take strike action against food and fuel prices, writes Matuma Letsoalo

By Staff Reporter and Matuma Letsoalo Author
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/ 4 July 2008

‘Ching Chong’ like the K-word

Chinese South Africans lived an oppressed twilight existence under apartheid, never really accepted by any group.

By Monako Dibetle
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/ 4 July 2008

Sasol the tax cow

Oil prices are rocketing and billions are flowing into the fiscus, Lynley Donnelly reports

By Lynley Donnelly
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/ 4 July 2008

‘No BEE for those who didn’t fight’

Black economic empowerment and affirmative action are not meant for Chinese people ­- no matter what apartheid did to them.

By Monako Dibetle
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/ 3 July 2008

Pikoli sticks to his guns over Selebi claim

Former National Prosecuting Authority boss Vusi Pikoli has defended his claim that he was suspended to stop the probe into commissioner Jackie Selebi.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Angry Motata disrupts court proceedings

An outburst by an angry Judge Nkola Motata on Thursday in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s court earned him a rebuke from the magistrate.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Kasrils: NIA hasn’t lost credibility

The National Intelligence Agency has not lost its credibility, Intelligence Services Minister Ronnie Kasrils said in Pretoria on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Mbeki says attacks on foreigners not xenophobia

The attacks on foreigners in the ”dark days of May” were not xenophobia, but ”naked criminal activity”, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Traffic demerit system launched

The Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences pilot project, including a demerit system for repeat offenders, was launched on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Eastern Cape circumcision toll rises

Circumcision deaths in the Eastern Cape continue to climb with reports on Thursday of four more fatalities in the Transkei region.

By Ben Maclennan
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/ 3 July 2008

Pared-down PAC prepares for congress

Far-reaching changes to the constitution of the PAC are to be put to the vote at the party’s national congress, which gets under way on Friday.

By Ben Maclennan
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/ 3 July 2008

Motata asleep at crash scene, court hears

A witness to Judge Nkola Motata’s accident said he did not speak to Motata for the first half hour on the scene because the judge was mainly asleep.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

The foibles that make us all human

Robyn Sassen reviews <i>Bar Flies</i>, now on stage at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

By Robyn Sassen
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/ 3 July 2008

The future is fat

South Africa’s is overweight, underactive and malnourished, with the highest smoking rates in Africa, according to a recent health survey.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Thank God for Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the voice of reason as the SAHRC opposes statements made by Julius Malema and Zwelinzima Vavi.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Browse Mole report a ‘mixture of fact and fiction’

Suspended head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli had a feeling that the the Special Browse Mole Report would cause trouble.

By Jenni Ogrady
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/ 3 July 2008

Memories of a human heart

The museum — small, intimate and in the very spot where it all took place — remembers the man, the remarkable history of heart transplant surgery.

By Leonie Joubert
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/ 3 July 2008

Motata lawyers probe recordings

Judge Nkola John Motata’s lawyers spent Thursday morning trying to find technical problems with five recordings capturing the judge’s rantings.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Shoplifters turn attention to stealing food

Shoplifters who usually steal luxury goods such as jewellery, electronics and clothing have shifted to basic necessities such as food.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Shock tactics or social consciousness?

In a society reeling from violence, how appropriate or helpful is it to see violence depicted on stage?

By Anja Muller-Deibicht
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/ 3 July 2008

New look at cancer causes

Environmental factors may contribute to about 90% of all cancers. Belinda Beresford reports.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 July 2008

Miners’ union will use strike to send ‘strong message’

South Africa’s biggest miners’ union said on Wednesday it would down tools on August 6 in a national strike that could halt production.

By James Macharia
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