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/ 22 December 2007
An elderly Vryheid woman who was savaged by a hyena on Thursday has undergone plastic surgery at Johannesburg’s Milpark Hospital. Alie Nel (83) was in a ”very stable condition” in the hospital’s trauma intensive-care unit on Saturday, said its marketing manager, Amelda Swartz.
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/ 22 December 2007
Controversial lawyer Christina Qunta has retained her position as deputy chairperson of the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). President Thabo Mbeki announced the public broadcaster’s new 12-member board on Saturday, just before he embarked on his annual leave.
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/ 22 December 2007
Three men accused of murdering a Botswana businesswoman were to be handed over by South Africa at the Ramatlabana border post on Saturday, said police — this after Botswana had agreed not to impose the death penalty on them should they be found guilty of killing Gloria Mahowe (37).
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/ 22 December 2007
Members of the South Africa A team that inflicted a humiliating 10-wicket defeat on the West Indies at Buffalo Park on Friday are putting certain Proteas players under pressure, and that is good for South African cricket, says South Africa A coach Kepler Wessels.
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/ 22 December 2007
President Thabo Mbeki was on Friday accused of double standards after he said he would not interfere with any prosecution for corruption of Jacob Zuma, who defeated the president in the race for the leadership of the African National Congress this week. Mbeki was speaking at his official residence in Pretoria.
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/ 22 December 2007
Wits University moved to the top of the Premier Soccer League log following a bruising 1-0 victory over Moroka Swallows on Friday — also due to a stroke of apparent good fortune when referee Daniel Bennett turned down a concerted injury-time penalty appeal by the Birds.
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/ 22 December 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday condemned the National Electricity Regulator for giving permission to Eskom to increase electricity prices by 14,2%. ”Poor households continue to face massive challenges in access to energy for basic household activities,” said spokesperson Patrick Craven.
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/ 22 December 2007
A 40-year-old man killed his wife and then handed himself over to police in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga police said on Friday. ”He took out a knife and stabbed her four times all over her body, and then he took a hammer and hit her on the back of her head,” said Superintendent Abie Khoabane.
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/ 22 December 2007
At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 injured in a collision when a bus ploughed into the trailer of a stationary truck near Estcourt in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on Saturday morning, paramedics and the provincial road traffic inspectorate said. Of those injured, eight were in a critical condition.
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/ 21 December 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) plans to examine further a proposal to set up a media tribunal, the party said on Friday. The notion was discussed and adopted at the ANC national conference this week, said ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama. A task team will now be set up to investigate ”the necessity or otherwise” of a media tribunal.
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/ 21 December 2007
South Africa has now entered a new era of expensive, unreliable electricity, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Friday. The 14,2% increase next year is well in excess of current inflation and justified by Eskom as a way of generating financial capacity for essential expansion, FF+ spokesperson Willie Spies said.
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/ 21 December 2007
The present South African government will serve out its term, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was speaking at his official residence in Pretoria a day after the closing of the African National Congress’s national conference in Polokwane that saw Jacob Zuma toppling him as party president.
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/ 21 December 2007
An internal forensic audit at the offices of KwaZulu-Natal Premier S’bu Ndebele has revealed that some of his employees were involved in fraud and corruption, the premier’s spokesperson said on Friday. A service-provider employee had been working ”in cahoots with employees” to make illegal and unauthorised payments to the provider.
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/ 21 December 2007
Former Springbok hooker James Dalton, accused of attempting to murder his wife, Andrea, appeared briefly in the Pretoria Regional Court on Friday. Dalton (35) was arrested in November after he handed himself over to the Boschkop police, about a week after his wife had laid the charge.
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/ 21 December 2007
Tickets for Durban’s much-anticipated A1 Grand Prix (GP) went on sale at 9am on Friday and confident organisers expect the event to attract thousands of motorsport lovers in February next year. The A1 GP, now in its third season, takes place in Durban from February 22 to 24.
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/ 21 December 2007
A KwaZulu-Natal farmer was shot dead on his farm in the Estcourt area, the KwaZulu-Natal Agriculture Union (KwaNalu) said on Friday. Initial information received by the union was that Greene (70) had been approached by a group of men on Thursday and sustained a single, fatal gunshot wound.
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/ 21 December 2007
Arthur Zwane will play his 99th match for Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday, but before that he has some important business to take care of. On Friday evening, the team he owns — Galatasaray Football Club — meet Inter Milan in a Meadowlands derby at the Discovery Walter Sisulu Challenge.
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/ 21 December 2007
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has not contacted new African National Congress president Jacob Zuma about corruption charges against him, he said on Friday. ”I have not been contacted, my advisers have not been contacted, but the media have been contacted,” Zuma said in an interview.
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/ 21 December 2007
A Democratic Alliance Cape Town city councillor, Frank Martin, appeared briefly in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Friday after his arrest on Thursday for allegedly encouraging homeless people in Delft to move into houses not allocated to them. Martin was released on R1Â 000 bail by a Bellville prosecutor.
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/ 21 December 2007
October 20 was South Africa’s biggest sporting day of the year. The venue was the Stade de France in Paris and the outcome was the right to call the Webb Ellis trophy ours for the next four years. The Springboks beat England 15‑6 in a tense final. Lucky Sindane looks back at the sporting highlights of 2007.
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/ 21 December 2007
The JSE extended its gains by midday on Friday as firmer world markets continued to direct it higher. By 12.02pm, the JSE’s all-share index had collected 1,95%, led by a 2,95% advance in the platinum mining index. Resources added 2,73% and the gold mining index rose 1,83%.
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>The African National Congress’s (ANC) new, 80-member national executive committee was announced at the end of the party’s 52nd national conference in Polokwane at midnight on Thursday evening. Topping the list with 2 845 votes (out of 3 605 votes cast) was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
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”Imminent” corruption charges against newly elected African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma, Zimbabwe and the death penalty were all issues that featured prominently in a press briefing on Thursday following Zuma’s closing address to the party’s 52nd national conference in Polokwane.
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>"We cannot have a Zuma camp or a Mbeki camp; there is only one ANC. None among us is above the organisation or bigger than the ANC," said new African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma on Thursday as the party’s 52nd national conference in Polokwane came to an end.
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/ 20 December 2007
A team of psychologists in KwaZulu-Natal has been tasked to deal with ”stressed” matriculants when they receive their results, the provincial department of education said on Thursday. Spokesperson Chris Maxon said the department was concerned by an increase in the number of attempted suicides by pupils.
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Finding a value-based overarching South African identity has become a priority for the African National Congress (ANC), national executive committee member Joel Netshitenzhe revealed on Thursday in a press briefing on the party’s strategy and tactics document.
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/ 20 December 2007
South Africa’s producer price inflation (PPI) slowed to 9,1% year-on-year in November, below forecasts, from a 9,5% rise in October. On a monthly basis, PPI rose by 0,3% after a 1,1% jump in October. Economists had forecast that annual PPI would come in at 9,7%, while the monthly rate of increase was seen at 0,8%.
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/ 20 December 2007
The JSE continued on its upward path by midday on Thursday, unaffected by surprisingly better PPI data but encouraged by the futures market close-out. By 1158am, the JSE’s all-share index had improved 0,83%. The platinum mining index climbed 3%, and the gold mining index added 0,94%,
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/ 20 December 2007
South African singer Dozi spent a night in a police cell after he apparently had too much to drink and drove home after a family dinner in Mossel Bay, a media report said on Thursday. ”It was probably God’s way of telling me not to drive further,” Dozi was quoted as saying.
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/ 20 December 2007
South Africa’s second-largest housing market, the Western Cape, continued to have the lowest house price inflation in the country, fresh data showed on Thursday. Price inflation in the province dropped from 12% in July to 11% in August, the Lightstone residential property index showed.
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/ 20 December 2007
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Newly elected African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma was facing the prospect on Thursday of being slapped with corruption charges as he prepared to deliver a keynote address at the party’s national conference in Polokwane.
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/ 20 December 2007
Who said comedy was dead? It was alive and well at Durban’s King Zwelethini Stadium on Wednesday night as SuperSport secured a 91st minute goal to beat Golden Arrows 1-0 in what turned out to be a comedy of errors. In the end it was left to Lithe Mozambican midfielder Elias Pelembe to cannon a 20m shot in additional time into the roof of the net.