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/ 23 November 2007
Harmony Gold said on Friday one worker was injured and another was missing after a rockfall at its Elandsrand mine, which re-opened on Monday after it was shut down in early October following an accident. An official at Harmony said the mine had not been shut again after Friday’s accident, which took place about 3km underground at about 10.30am.
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/ 23 November 2007
A record television audience is expected to watch the 2010 Soccer World Cup preliminary draw when it takes place in Durban on Sunday afternoon. World Soccer governing body Fifa spokesperson Nicolas Maingot said on Friday that while television viewer figures would be hard to estimate, there would be 34 television channels broadcasting the draw live.
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/ 23 November 2007
A ”Rolling Enforcement Plan” was launched by the Department of Transport at the Heidelberg traffic control centre on Friday to improve road safety during the festive season. ”The main aim of this event is to promote cooperation between different law enforcement agencies,” said Mawethu Vilana, speaking on behalf of Transport Minister Jeff Radebe.
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/ 23 November 2007
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The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has thrown its weight behind Jacob Zuma for president of the ANC, with current president Thabo Mbeki not featuring on its list of 66 nominations released in Johannesburg on Friday. ”We didn’t support him [Mbeki] for president of the ANC,” said ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula.
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/ 23 November 2007
Fraud charges have been laid against an African National Congress (ANC) councillor in the Rustenburg municipality, the Independent Democrats (ID) said on Friday. ID deputy-president Agnes Tsamai said she had laid charges against Jabulile Nxumalo on Monday.
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/ 23 November 2007
A gay psychology student who in July allegedly shot dead both his parents to spare them the grief of his own suicide, is to go on trial in the Cape High Court next year on two charges of murder. Grant Harris (23) on Friday made his seventh appearance in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court, before magistrate Hafeeza Mohamed, since his arrest in August for the double murder.
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African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, are both unimpressive candidates for the ANC leadership, with a tendency to flout democratic principles, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said in her weekly online letter on Friday
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/ 23 November 2007
A flight was cancelled and another turned back when planes experienced technical difficulties on Friday. A 7.30am kulula.com flight — heading from Johannesburg to George — was cancelled after a fault with the aircraft’s public-announcement system was found, said Comair spokesperson Glenda Zvenyika.
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/ 23 November 2007
The National Union of Mineworkers plans to ask its members to down tools on December 4 to protest against a spate of deaths in the country’s mines, the president of the union said. Senzeni Zokwana unveiled the date of the planned action in a speech at a congress of global miners’ unions, which started in Thailand on Thursday, a statement said.
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/ 23 November 2007
South Africa’s ability to stage the world’s most widely watched sporting event will undergo intensive scrutiny on Sunday when it hosts the qualifying draw for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Thousands of football administrators and journalists will be present in Durban, with hundreds of millions more watching on television, for an extravaganza designed to silence the sceptics.
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/ 23 November 2007
World markets injected some life into the JSE at midday on Friday as the all-share index lifted 0,90%, led by a 1,78% gain in resources. By noon the gold mining index collected 0,35%, but the platinum mining index was up a slight 0,06%. Financials advanced 0,51% and banks inched up 0,28%. Industrials were 0,09% in the black.
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/ 23 November 2007
About 1 000 people have been evacuated from their homes and sections of the N2 near George has been closed, as heavy rains continued to pelt the southern Cape on Friday. Disaster official Gerhard Otto said the Red Cross was assisting with blankets and mattresses for those affected, mainly from low-income areas in Knynsa, Sedgfield and Plettenberg Bay.
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/ 23 November 2007
Two of the three metro cops implicated in Robert McBride’s alleged drunk-driving cover-up have resigned, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Friday. Spokesperson Zweli Dlamini said Itumeleng Koko and Patrick Johnson resigned earlier this week. It has been reported that the men received indemnity from prosecution by turning state witness against metro chief McBride.
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/ 23 November 2007
Standard Bank expects as much as -million in incremental earnings by the third year of the deal in which China’s biggest lender ICBC will buy a 20% stake for ,6-billion, it said on Friday. Standard Bank said in a presentation on its website that the bank expects incremental earnings of -million to -million.
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/ 23 November 2007
A Qalakabusha prison escapee died on Friday morning after a shoot-out with law enforcement officials, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Police spokesperson Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said the incident took place at 2am in Mtubatuba. Xolani Ngobese and nine other convicted criminals escaped from the prison in northern KwaZulu-Natal on August 4 this year.
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/ 23 November 2007
The Soweto derby, between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs, has captured the imagination of football lovers since 1970. The fixture has become the showstopper of the South African football calendar. This weekend’s match in Durban will export the passions of South African fans to Europe and those parts of Africa where it will be televised live.
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/ 23 November 2007
Three people died and a number were injured during a fierce storm in Johannesburg on Thursday, paramedics and emergency officials said. Netcare 911 spokesperson Nick Dollman said a young man was killed and two people injured by a large tree that fell over in Perth Road in Auckland Park during the storm.
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/ 22 November 2007
South Africa will launch a nationwide safety audit in December on all mines in the world’s largest producer of precious minerals in a bid to reduce deaths and accidents, a senior official said on Thursday. Stung by the loss of lives that union officials have called a ”genocide,” the government has vowed to temporarily shut mines whenever deaths occur.
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/ 22 November 2007
The parole of former bouncer Gary Beuthin is to be revoked following his re-arrest in connection with an assault case, the Department of Correctional Services said on Thursday. Correctional services spokesperson Manelisi Wolela said the department was in the process of revoking his parole conditions.
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/ 22 November 2007
Minutes before being shot dead in an argument over a baseball cap, Godfrey Hendricks challenged his two alleged killers to take the cap from him by force. The two men then fetched a firearm from their car parked nearby. Two shots were fired, leaving Hendricks lying dead on the ground, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday.
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/ 22 November 2007
Fifa president Sepp Blatter arrived in Durban on Thursday amid tight security. His arrival ahead of the 2010 preliminary draw came on the same day that 2010 South African local organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan unveiled the 2009 Confederations Cup emblem at Durban’s International Convention Centre.
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/ 22 November 2007
As Piet Koornhof quietly shuffled of this mortal coil last week, an Eastern Cape man said he still had a question for the apartheid-era Cabinet minister.
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/ 22 November 2007
It would be a recipe for disaster if the intelligence services had to apply to the courts every time it wanted classified documents kept from the public, the Constitutional Court heard on Thursday. ”This would be hopelessly impractical,” said David Unterhalter, counsel for the Intelligence Ministry and the Presidency.
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/ 22 November 2007
International bodybuilding legend Reg Park (79) passed away in Johannesburg on November 22 from advanced skin cancer. ”In his dying moments he was talking in his sleep and training people and exercising them,” his son, Jon Jon, said. Jon Jon said Reg had suffered with the debilitating illness for eight months but had accepted that he was going to die.
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/ 22 November 2007
Jacques Kallis will play for South Africa in Friday’s Twenty20 international against New Zealand, captain Graeme Smith said on Thursday. Kallis, the nation’s leading run-scorer in Tests and one-day internationals, was controversially omitted from the squad for the Twenty20 World Championship, which they exited before the semifinal stage, hosted by South Africa in September.
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/ 22 November 2007
South African rugby boss Oregan Hoskins says he played a key role in helping outgoing Springbok coach Jake White survive his four-year tenure. Without his support, Hoskins said on Thursday, White would not have been able to continue in his role as coach of the national side. ”All I want to say is that my conscience is abundantly clear towards Jake. I’ve stood by Jake.”
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The African National Congress (ANC)’s December national conference will serve as a springboard to propel the party to new heights, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Thursday. Speaking during the launch of the ANC parliamentary caucus website in Cape Town, Mlambo-Ngcuka said the party would surprise its critics.
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/ 22 November 2007
A total of 170 countries will go into Sunday’s draw for the 2010 World Cup preliminary competition being held in Durban, Fifa said on Thursday. The teams will be chasing 31 places at the World Cup finals to be hosted by South Africa in 30 months’ time.
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/ 22 November 2007
Africa’s biggest packaging group Nampak posted a 22% jump in full-year headline earnings per share (EPS), and said on Thursday it expected real earnings growth in the current year. The company had said on Friday it expected full-year headline EPS to rise by 20% to 25%.
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/ 22 November 2007
South Africa’s trade union federation Cosatu on Thursday threatened to call a strike if state-owned electricity utility Eskom is allowed to raise electricity tariffs by 18%, as requested. Cosatu’s general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, told reporters that the federation was canvassing members for a possible general strike next year.
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/ 22 November 2007
A final decision on which country will host the giant Square Kilometre Array radio telescope is now expected in 2011, the Cabinet announced on Thursday. South Africa was confident it would win the bid, government communications head Themba Maseko told a media briefing at Parliament on Thursday, following the Cabinet’s fortnightly meeting the day before.
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/ 22 November 2007
Heavy rainfall in the Southern Cape on Wednesday resulted in a number of people calling for assistance, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Thursday. ”The NSRI Mossel Bay helped evacuate residents near Groot Brak River as rising water threatened to burst the river bank in the vicinity of Pine Creek,” said NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.