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/ 24 December 2007
The conduct of some African National Congress delegates at its conference in Polokwane last week showed they did not understand what the party stood for, President Thabo Mbeki has told the South African Broadcasting Corporation. He was disappointed at how little some people understood of the ANC’s political workings and policy implementation.
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/ 24 December 2007
Heidelberg police are searching for the driver of a yellow Toyota Cressida that was involved in an accident in which one person died, Ekurhuleni police said on Sunday. The Toyota Cressida — bearing the number plate CJM 710 GP — collided with a white Hyundai three-tonne truck, leaving the driver of the truck dead.
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/ 24 December 2007
Worried that it may be seen as insensitive to the food needs of Africa, the South African government, which is facing a general election in 2009, has chosen food security in framing a biofuel policy. After months of dilly-dallying, a strategy for the biofuel sector was accepted by the Cabinet at the start of December.
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/ 23 December 2007
AmaZulu beat Orlando Pirates 1-0 in a drab Absa Premiership encounter at the packed Princess Magogo Stadium in Durban on Sunday. AmaZulu striker Dumisani Ngwenya scored the only goal of the game to send his team into the top half of the table.
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/ 23 December 2007
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The battle between President Thabo Mbeki and new African National Congress president Jacob Zuma is far from over, if perceptions conveyed in the Sunday newspapers are anything to go by. An unnamed Mbeki ally was quoted as saying ”all is not lost”.
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/ 23 December 2007
It was always going to be a Premier League game in which a solitary goal — much like a bolt of lightning on a cloudless sky — would decide the issue at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Saturday night. And, in a dour clash lacking in inspiration, the bolt of lightning was provided by a 24th minute Rudi Isaacs header.
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/ 23 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Some call it brainless, others inappropriate in the post-apartheid era but Jacob Zuma, the new leader of the African National Congress, is in no mood to stop singing his signature <i>Umshini Wami</i>. "If you erase the songs, you erase the record of history," said Zuma of the anthem.
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/ 23 December 2007
Jomo Cosmos showed why they are at the bottom of the Absa Premiership table with another insipid performance against Thanda Royal Zulu at the Ackerville Stadium in Witbank on Saturday. The hosts, who lost 2-1, will remain at the bottom of the log until the season kicks off in February.
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/ 23 December 2007
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Former president Nelson Mandela has praised Jacob Zuma, the new leader of the African National Congress (ANC), as a man who could unify the divided party. In a message of congratulations, Mandela said: ”Our experience of Comrade Zuma is of a person and leader who is inclusive in his approach, a unifier and one who values reconciliation and collective leadership.”
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/ 23 December 2007
The new chairperson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Khanyisiwe Mkhonza, paid tribute to the outgoing board in a statement to the media on Sunday. Mkhonza, who is the current chairperson of the public broadcasting services board sub-committee, also acknowledged challenges facing the new board.
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/ 23 December 2007
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Nothing will stop African National Congress president Jacob Zuma from becoming the next president of South Africa, the party’s KwaZulu-Natal secretary Johan Mchunu said on Saturday. He was speaking at a beachfront celebration in Zuma’s honour in Durban.
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/ 23 December 2007
Mamelodi Sundowns coach Gordon Igesund appeared as ebullient as a schoolboy who had raided the cookie jar after his team’s hard-earned 1-0 Premier league victory over Free State Stars at a sultry Goble Stadium in Bethlehem on Saturday afternoon.
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/ 23 December 2007
The resolution on climate change adopted in Polokwane by the African National Congress (ANC) is a critical milestone that should be applauded, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, said on Sunday. He said the resolution strengthened the mandate of the government to ”take the tough decisions that will be required”.
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/ 23 December 2007
Kaizer Chiefs were held to a 1-1 draw by the Black Leopards in an Absa Premiership match at the Loftus Stadium on Saturday night. This was Chiefs’ ninth draw from 15 league games and the Soweto giants are now 10th on the log while Leopards are in 15th place with 14 points.
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/ 22 December 2007
Zimbabwe wrapped up a come-from-behind win against the South African Composite XI shortly before lunch on the third day of the SuperSport Challenge match at Paarl on Saturday. Their bowlers decimated the home team in the second innings as they fell well short of a moderate target of 150.
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/ 22 December 2007
Durban paddler Darryl Bartho snatched victory in the gruelling 56km Men’s Health Cape Point Challenge surf-ski marathon, ending a title drought during which he has regularly been the runner-up in many major events. A delighted Bartho ran up the beach at Fish Hoek to claim the title.
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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.