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Two private detectives claim they know who killed Stellenbosch student Inge Lotz, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday. The two had laid charges of intimidation and obstruction of justice against two police officers who they claim knew the details and did nothing about it.
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The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is quite unacceptable that Eskom does not give adequate warning to the public about its load shedding. "It is a crying shame that Eskom can paralyse the economic powerhouse of Africa — Gauteng province — every time it needs to do maintenance to power-generating equipment," the DA said on Tuesday.
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The majority of South Africans prefer to have African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma as their next national president, a recent TNS survey has found. Conducted on 3Â 000 adults between September and October, the survey saw Zuma emerge as frontrunner to succeed Thabo Mbeki when he steps down in 2009.
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The South African Airways (SAA) Open, formerly the South African Open, which tees off at the Pearl Valley Golf Estates in Paarl on Thursday, has attracted the strongest field in the history of the championship. The Open will include Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman, Retief Goosen, Tim Clark, US Open champion Angel Cabrera, veteran Greg Norman and Darren Clarke.
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South African maize futures continued their rebound from a two-week slump as the market reversed a heavy selling trend, traders said on Tuesday. Prices have fallen since the Crop Estimates Committee unexpectedly hiked South Africa’s maize crop forecast for the 2006/07 season two weeks ago.
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Candles and cold dinners will be the order of the day again on Tuesday as Eskom warned of further load shedding countrywide. ”Unfortunately there is load shedding today [Tuesday] again,” said spokesperson Andrew Etzinger, waiting for the power cut in his office in Sunninghill to roll over to another area while working on his laptop.
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The man caught up in the national hoax email saga, Muziwendoda Kunene, briefly appeared in the Bethlehem Magistrate’s Court in the Free State on Tuesday. A court official said Kunene’s case was postponed and transferred to the Kestell Magistrate’s Court, where he was expected to appear on Wednesday.
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South Africa’s current account plunged further into deficit in the third quarter of 2007 as both oil-import costs and payments to foreign investors surged, but household spending eased due to higher interest rates. The central bank said in its latest quarterly bulletin the shortfall on the current account swelled to a record R162,6-billion, or 8,1% of gross domestic product.
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The West Indies do not have a good record in South Africa, but captain Chris Gayle believes they should be able to turn things around on their coming tour of this country. Speaking just after the team’s arrival from Zimbabwe on Monday, Gayle said he thought there was an excellent spirit within the West Indies team.
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Zwelinzima Vavi was ”a bit reckless” in the comments he made about women’s equity, said African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday. ”History will judge him. I would expect a leader of his stature to be more circumspect,” Motlanthe said on Talk Radio 702.
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Prison officials denied whistle-blowing Pollsmoor doctor, Paul Theron, entry to the prison hospital when he reported for duty on Tuesday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. The Department of Health had suspended him after Theron had complained about poor conditions at the prison hospital.
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The African National Congress (ANC) said on Monday it had suspended an activist for launching a legal battle to postpone the party’s leadership conference. Votani Majola has asked the country’s Supreme Court of Appeal to grant his request to have the ANC’s December 16 to 20 congress delayed for six months.
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Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has dismissed media reports that she summoned African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League delegates from Mpumalanga to her Pretoria office to chide them for nominating Jacob Zuma as party president.
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More than 250 people have been killed on South African roads since the beginning of the festive season, the Department of Transport said on Monday. Spokesperson Ntau Letebele said 275 people were killed in 230 crashes — 65 drivers, 84 passengers and 126 pedestrians.
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The boy was thrown into the fire and left to die by Janjaweed fighters in Sudan’s bedevilled Darfur province. But 12-year-old Rachid Dahiye Zakaria survived. Then, badly disfigured, he walked for days to a refugee camp across the border in Chad with his sole remaining relatives — a grandmother and a sister.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu accused the United States and Britain on Monday of pursuing policies like those of South Africa’s apartheid-era government by detaining terrorism suspects without trial. He said the detention of suspected al-Qaeda members at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay was a ”huge blot on a democracy”.
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History is littered with the legacy of tyrants and leaders who abused the rights of citizens to hold on to power, African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma said on Monday. He was delivering the keynote address on International Human Rights Day at Wits University in Braamfontein. Zuma said some leaders still did not understand the needs of the people or their rights.
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Denel Munitions has secured a R200-million order from the United Kingdom for 40mm target-practice grenades, the arms manufacturer said on Monday. ”Coming at the close of the calendar year, this order is most welcome for our Western Cape facility,” said chief executive Monwabisi Kalawe.
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Just beyond Johannesburg’s affluent suburbs, with their manicured lawns and swimming pools, the shack dwellers of Diepsloot live amid stinking garbage, raw sewage and rats. Disillusioned with politics, many squatters have little faith that their once-champion, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), will find them better homes and opportunities.
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The Wynberg Regional Court in Cape Town on Monday recommended that Najwa Petersen, accused of the murder of her famous husband Taliep, be moved from the Breederivier Prison at Worcester to one nearer her home. The court dismissed her second application on the grounds that she had misled the court in the first application.
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The African National Congress (ANC) has welcomed reports suggesting that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is trying to iron out differences between President Thabo Mbeki and the party’s deputy, Jacob Zuma, SAfm reported on Monday. Madikizela-Mandela plans to invite the two men to meet her before the Limpopo conference.
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The bail application of Muziwendoda Kunene, the man caught up in the African National Congress hoax email saga, was abandoned in the Atteridgeville Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Magistrate Allan Cowan postponed the case attempted murder against Kunene to January 15.
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Virtually every sector in South Africa that relies on skilled labour is facing a skills shortage, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Monday. ”There is clearly a skills crisis,” said SAIRR’s Marius Roodt, who released a report last week that indicated the country was facing a ”dire” skills crisis.
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Megawatt Park was without megawatts on Monday when Eskom load-shedded itself. The power company could not even access its own website to check which areas were without electricity — the server was down, said an official who asked not want to be named.
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An elderly British tourist found dead after a fire on Table Mountain could have died of a heart attack, the doctor who did the post-mortem examination conceded on Monday at the trial of British national Anthony Cooper, who is alleged to have started the fire in January last year by tossing a burning cigarette butt on to dry grass.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, together with former president of Ireland Mary Robinson and Graça Machel, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, on Monday launched a human rights campaign marking the 60th year since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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D-Day for the approximately 600 000 people who wrote matric in South Africa will be December 28 when the Department of Education releases this year’s final exam results. The results will be available in newspapers at 6am, said department spokesperson Lunga Ngqengelele.
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/ 10 December 2007
DaimlerChrysler South Africa would from Monday be trading as Mercedes-Benz South Africa, the car manufacturer said. The name change will not affect present contracts and undertakings. ”It is business as usual, with a fresh focus and renewed energy,” said Hansgeorg Niefer, chairperson of Mercedes-Benz South Africa.
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The prospect of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma becoming president is profoundly concerning, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said on Monday at a press conference at Parliament to release the DA’s annual ”report card” on the performance of Cabinet ministers.
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/ 10 December 2007
Power cuts rolled out across the country on Monday as Eskom tried to load-shed after planned and unplanned power-station maintenance resulted in an electricity supply shortage. Eskom had to shed 1Â 000MW, although this could go as high as 1Â 500MW, said general manager of demand-side management Andrew Etzinger.
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Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s office on Monday would not comment on a newspaper report that he was involved in criminal activities, saying the information was stale and had already been commented on. The Mail & Guardian has reported that Selebi could be charged as early as this week.
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De Beers Consolidated Mines’s R1-billion sale of its Cullinan diamond mine in Pretoria to the Petra Diamonds Cullinan Consortium has taken an important step forward with Monday’s announcement that the Department of Minerals and Energy has agreed to convert the old-order mining right held by De Beers into a new-order mining right.