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A Western Cape taxi driver was arrested at a roadblock in Wynberg on Wednesday for R20 000 in unpaid fines, said police. Captain Randall Stoffels said another four taxi drivers abandoned their vehicles and ran away when they saw the roadblock in Ottery Road.
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A sacked Transnet human resources manager who took her case all the way to the Constitutional Court will have to start again by seeking arbitration, the court ruled on Wednesday. Petronella Chirwa worked as a human resources manager for the Transnet pension-fund business unit.
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The South African National Defence Force Union on Wednesday threatened to lay a criminal charge against Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota for contravening the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The union also wants the Labour Department to take action against the South African National Defence Force for non-compliance with health and safety legislation.
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Oprah Winfrey has met with the family of the first pupil to complain of abuse at her elite school for disadvantaged South African girls, and invited the girl to return to the academy. The United States magazine People quoted the father of the pupil as saying they met for two hours with Winfrey on Sunday.
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The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) will not ask President Thabo Mbeki to step down as a nominee for the top leadership position in the ruling party. ”We have got no right to ask anybody who has been nominated to step down. It’s undemocratic,” ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula said in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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Former spy boss Billy Masetlha was on Wednesday found not to have contravened the Intelligence Oversight Act by the Hatfield Community Court in Pretoria. His acquittal on charges of withholding information from Inspector General of Intelligence Zolile Ngcakani was greeted by loud applause from the public gallery.
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South African Tourism says that tourism has grown steadily every year since the introduction of the Tourism Growth Strategy in 2002. Chief operating officer Didi Moyle said on Wednesday, in presenting research findings from 2002 to 2006, that there were 35,4-million foreign arrivals in South Africa over the period.
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The Johannesburg city council is investigating the deaths of about 200 ducks at Zoo Lake in Parkview, spokesperson Nthatise Modingoane said on Wednesday. He said the ducks had died sometime last week and that two possible causes were being investigated. These were hail and botulism bacteria, which kill fauna.
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Last season Ajax Cape Town beat Mamelodi Sundowns four times under the guidance of Muhsin Ertugral, who also led the young Cape team to an emphatic victory in the Absa Cup, beating none other than Sundowns in the final. This Saturday Ertugral’s Kaizer Chiefs take on Sundowns in the final of the Telkom Knockout Cup.
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A makeshift Bafana Bafana side put five goals past a hapless Lesotho in a one-sided training match at the Germiston Stadium on Tuesday evening. Ajax Cape Town striker Thembinkosi Fanteni led the way with a brace, while Orlando Pirates’ Lebohang Mokoena, Santos’ Thando Mngomeni and SuperSport United’s Katlego Mphela netted a goal each.
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Former South Africa batsman Gary Kirsten said on Tuesday he has been offered the job as India coach. ”They have offered me the job,” Kirsten said from Delhi. ”I asked them for some time to consider it and they were very obliging, but it’s an extremely exciting prospect and, provided a few details can be worked out, I’m looking forward to the challenge,” he said.
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The JSE was down sharply by midday on Wednesday, led by an intense pull back by mining stocks on the JSE. Mining stocks retreated, along with resources, as a fall in commodity prices burdened stocks. At noon, the JSE’s all-share index lost 1,48%. The platinum mining index dropped 3,32%, and the gold mining index fell 2,57%.
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A 24-year-old Gauteng woman was found buried in a shallow grave 54m from her boyfiend’s KwaZulu-Natal home on Tuesday afternoon, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Captain Jabulani Mdletshe the grave was found at the Qakwini Reserve in Mtubatuba in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
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A constitutional crisis. Instability. Business as usual. Disillusionment. The jury was out on South Africa’s immediate political future at the Mail & Guardian‘s Critical Thinking Forum held in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening. Will the African National Congress’s Polokwane conference bring popular change or business as usual?
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South African fixed-line operator Telkom’s shares plummeted more than 10% in early trade on Tuesday on news that the negotiations it was in with cellphone operator MTN had terminated. In September, Telkom released a cautionary announcement advising shareholders that it had entered into discussions with Vodafone and MTN.
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Prominent businessman Tokyo Sexwale, seen as a possible African National Congress presidential candidate, said on Wednesday Jacob Zuma was likely to win the contest to lead the ruling party. He also denied in a radio interview media reports that he had offered to fund Zuma’s campaign.
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When patients hear they have Aids, their first reaction often is to think they have been given the death sentence. But, between the disease and dying lies a grey area, and that’s when palliative caregivers are most needed by patients. Palliative care aims to relieve the suffering and improve the quality of life of patients with life-threatening illnesses.
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/ 28 November 2007
Five minutes in the company of Rhodes Park library assistant Edith Mvelase is sufficient to dispel any residual images of librarians as people with pursed lips and dusty fingers. Not only does she have apple cheeks and laughing eyes, Mvelase is also quite likely to have muddy hands from digging in the library’s food garden.
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Bombarded by HIV/Aids campaigns, South Africans have grown almost immune to the messages so crucial in the fight against the pandemic. For many it is a case of ”we’ve heard it all before”. This is why many organisations have put on their creative shoes to find unique ways to reach affected people and help the cope.
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The South African National Aids Council (Sanac) has adopted a strategic plan to respond to HIV/Aids challenges in the country, it said on Tuesday. This was announced at a Sanac conference in Johannesburg. Spokesperson Mark Heywood said the plan might not be perfect, but it was the best available as it had been endorsed by the Cabinet.
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It would have seemed all but unthinkable two years ago, but Jacob Zuma appears set to become leader of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC). Despite being dogged by graft allegations, analysts say he has patiently capitalised on the political blunders of his rival, President Thabo Mbeki, to win overwhelming support.
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Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool has apologised to the provincial legislature for ”incorrect” statements made before it on overspending. ”To bring finality and closure to an unfortunate episode, I apologise for anything I said that led to the conclusion of the ad-hoc committee,” he said in Cape Town on Tuesday.
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Tertiary institutions do not have the capacity to enrol an estimated 100 000 extra students by 2015, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday. ”We need to look at the carrying capacity and whether it should not be considered for expansion to take on more young people,” Pandor said.
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) must not be used to bring down Jacob Zuma ahead of the African National Congress conference to elect its next president, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday. Zuma, the current ANC deputy president, is the frontrunner to become the party’s next president.
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The trial of the Swiss design engineer Daniel Geiges, who was allegedly part of an international nuclear smuggling ring, was postponed on Tuesday because he was too ill to stand trial. The Pretoria High Court was earlier told that Geiges (69) had been diagnosed with cancer of the rectum and was undergoing ”severe treatment”.
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Johannesburg has been ranked as one of the top 50 cities in the world that are hubs of the new worldwide economy, according to an index released on Tuesday. Johannesburg — the only African city to make the top 50 — was ranked 47th in the MasterCard ”Worldwide Centres of Commerce Index”.
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Western Cape provincial minister for local government Richard Dyantyi’s announcement that he intends to probe spy allegations against the City of Cape Town is an African National Congress (ANC) ploy to divert attention from Premier Ebrahim Rasool’s woes, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Tuesday.
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Progress was being made in strengthening Gauteng’s economy but unemployment was still a concern, Gauteng minister of finance Paul Mashatile said on Tuesday. ”[W]hen we report back to the people of Gauteng [in 2009] we will be able to say boldly and without fear of contradiction that we have successfully completed our five-year mandate,” he said.
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Two cousins took their battle for chieftaincy of the Valoyi tribe to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, in a case that challenges customary law in their tribe that says only men may be chiefs. Tinyiko Shilubana and Sidwell Nwamitwa each insist that they are the rightful head of the Valoyi tribe.
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Local online retailer Kalahari.net, a popular stop on the web for South Africans looking to buy especially CDs, books and DVDs, has been chosen as best e-commerce store of the year, for the second year in a row. The South African e-Commerce Awards is an initiative hosted by online shopping search engine Jump Shopping.
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A taxi driver saw British citizen Anthony Cooper flick a burning cigarette on to dry grass, which started a runaway fire on Table Mountain, the Cape Town Regional Court heard on Tuesday. The driver, Craig Ward, testified before magistrate Wilma van der Merwe in Cooper’s trial on a charge of culpable homicide and one of contravening the National Forestry Act.
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Telephone connections have been restored to East Rand offices of the Department of Home Affairs, a home affairs official said on Tuesday. ”All telephone services are working correctly,” the regional home affairs manager for Springs, Themba Ndebele, said.