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AngloGold Ashanti shut one of its larger mines in South Africa on Friday after a miner was killed in a rockfall as a miners’ strike to protest against the spate of mine deaths in the country loomed. AngloGold, the world’s third-biggest gold producer, shut its TauTona mine after the worker died in the early hours of Friday.
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/ 2 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki devoted a large part of his speech to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Friday to criticising the behaviour and ownership of the media. Speaking in Pniel, outside Stellenbosch, where the NCOP was holding a provincial sitting, he emphasised that the government has ”absolutely no intention to limit press freedom”.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Home Affairs has ditched the South African Post Office (Sapo) as the distributor of its documents because of inefficiency. Initially, the Sapo contract with the department to deliver documents went very well, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told a media briefing at Parliament on Friday.
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/ 2 November 2007
Former anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman has not been given the recognition she deserves in the new South Africa, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday. In a tribute to Suzman ahead of her 90th birthday next week, he said she had tirelessly used her position as MP during the Sixties and Seventies to break the apartheid mould.
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/ 2 November 2007
The JSE recouped some of its earlier losses, but remained lower at midday on Friday on hopes that United States jobs data due out later in the day would support a case for another rate cut in the US. The local bourse was down more than 340 points in early trade following similar drops overseas stemming from renewed US subprime housing-market concerns.
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/ 2 November 2007
South African vehicle sales fell by 5,9%, or 3 423 units, year-on-year in October to 54 387 units with the decline driven by the passenger-car market, new data showed on Friday. Sales data showed that aggregate sales for the first ten months of the year were 3,5% lower than the same time last year.
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/ 2 November 2007
With prospects of yet another foreigner winning the Soweto Marathon, Athletics South Africa has decided to invest in the future of the sport. And that future, it says, lies with middle-distance runners such as 24-year-old University of Free State star Boy Soke. On Sunday, Soke will run the 10km route of the Soweto road race.
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/ 2 November 2007
The retail price of all grades of petrol will increase by three cents a litre on Wednesday November 7, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel — all grades — will decrease by six cents a litre.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Labour said on Friday that preliminary findings of the ongoing inspections of compliance by the South African iron and steel industry painted a picture of an industry "fraught with high disregard of labour legislation countrywide".
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/ 2 November 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Friday at a <i>Financial Mail</i> medium-term budget briefing that the world had changed in the past 12 years and developing countries needed to become more involved in the world trade regime or else they would just be following the procession.
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The battle for leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) would be either a two- or three-way race, businessman Saki Macozoma told students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand on Thursday. ”That’s what I read,” he said in a lecture facilitated by the Platform on Public Deliberations.
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/ 2 November 2007
Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel is under police investigation for fraud and corruption, a media report said on Friday. Nel led the investigation into the shooting of mining magnate Brett Kebble and led the state’s aborted probe into alleged criminal activity by police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 1 November 2007
Two commuters and a taxi driver were injured when they were caught in the crossfire of a taxi-violence shoot-out in Edenvale on Thursday. Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Inspector Jimmy Maboko said between 100 and 150 members of the Germiston Taxi Association and the Tembisa Taxi Association had gathered and began shooting at each other.
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/ 1 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki has ignored all written parliamentary questions addressed to him by the official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday. DA parliamentary leader Sandra Botha said Mbeki had not responded to all nine questions that the party had addressed to him this year.
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/ 1 November 2007
The inspector general of intelligence will take the witness stand in the Hatfield Community Court on Friday after former spy boss Billy Masetlha’s defence was granted an application to recall witnesses. Zolile Ngcakani is to be asked whether he received a report that Masetlha said he sent to him on September 30 2005.
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/ 1 November 2007
Arthur Magerman can still vividly remember the summer’s morning half a century ago when he joined thousands of fellow township residents on the long walk to work in a protest seen as the first major salvo in the battle against South Africa’s apartheid regime.
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/ 1 November 2007
The district of Matatiele moved a step closer to being permanently incorporated into the Eastern Cape after the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday voted by a narrow margin in favour of the controversial Constitution 13th Amendment Bill. Heated debate between opposition parties and the ruling African National Congress preceded the vote.
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/ 1 November 2007
The national office of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in Harrison Street, Johannesburg, was damaged by a fire on Wednesday, CCMA director Nerine Kahn said on Thursday. Kahn told the Mail & Guardian Online that the cause of the fire was not known.
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/ 1 November 2007
The release on bail of Najwa Petersen, accused of the murder of her entertainer husband, Taliep, was essential to save her young daughter from long-term emotional damage, Cape Town psychologist Rosa Bredenkamp told the Wynberg Regional Court on Thursday. Petersen has launched a second bail application after her first was rejected.
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/ 1 November 2007
Hammer murder accused Fred van der Vyver has lost a quarter of his weight since his girlfriend Inge Lotz was killed, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday. The revelation was made by the senior advocate in his defence team, Henri Viljoen, in closing argument. Van der Vyver is charged with killing Lotz in her Stellenbosch flat in March 2005.
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/ 1 November 2007
Corruption-related complaints about the South African Police Service surged dramatically after its Anti-Corruption Unit was shut down in 2002, according to research by the Institute for Security Studies. An average of 43 cases were lodged each year between 1997 and 2002. This shot up to an average of 125 cases each year between 2002 and 2006.
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/ 1 November 2007
Gauteng tourism is one of the best performing sectors in the province — recording an annual growth of more than 10%, economists said on Thursday. Mike Schüssler, economist at T-Sec, said over 9,4-million people walked through the turnstiles at the OR Tambo International Airport from January up to September this year.
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/ 1 November 2007
About 150 students were arrested at a South African university overnight in the latest in a series of violent campus protests, police said on Thursday. About 1 000 students of the University of Limpopo’s Turfloop campus in the north of the country went on the rampage, breaking windows and throwing stones at passing cars late on Wednesday evening.
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/ 1 November 2007
The government is to invest R100-million next year in six marine fish-farming projects, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced on Thursday. ”There are huge opportunities in marine aquaculture, which will not only reduce the pressure on wild stocks, but provide new economic opportunities,” he said.
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/ 1 November 2007
Tackling crime required community involvement and could not merely be solved with more police officers, a seminar on policing in Pretoria heard on Thursday. ”Because crime is a social problem, [there] has to be a social solution, involving more players than just the police,” Temba Mathe of the National Secretariat for Safety and Security said.
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/ 1 November 2007
South Africa’s purchasing managers index (PMI) rebounded sharply to 56,1 in October, as robust demand pushed new sales orders up, sponsor Investec said on Thursday. The index, which measures underlying manufacturing activity, leapt from a near two-year low of 51,6 in September and snapped a two-month decline.
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/ 1 November 2007
A <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> reader, Simon van Gend from Cape Town, ran into trouble with his geyser last week after he followed national electricity supplier Eskom’s advice to switch his geyser off each day, to help save electricity and prevent load shedding. But is Eskom really at fault?
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/ 1 November 2007
It might not have been the kind of ”Hand of God” goal that Diego Maradona immortalised, but battling Premier Soccer League champions Mamelodi Sundowns secured a much-needed 1-0 victory over Bloemfontein Celtic at the Free State Rugby Stadium on Wednesday night with what could be termed ”a gift from the gods”.
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/ 1 November 2007
After being up about 280 points from its previous close at one stage, the JSE had turned around by midday on Thursday in what traders described as "solid profit-taking." By noon, the all-share index was off 0,31%, led by a 0,57% fall in resources, a 0,98% decline in the gold-mining index and a 1,58% easing in the platinum-mining index.
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/ 1 November 2007
Félicien Kabuga has a reward of several million dollars on his head, and tops the list of fugitives of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Yet, he’s managed to escape justice for years. The ICTR was set up in northern Tanzania by the United Nations in 1995 to bring high-level perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide to justice.
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/ 1 November 2007
Construction on Durban’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium is set to come to a halt next Wednesday when workers down tools, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday. Mzi Poswa, NUM’s regional organiser and chief negotiator said the strike would start on November 5.
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/ 1 November 2007
AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third biggest gold producer, reported flat third-quarter headline earnings per share on Thursday after costs rose, undermining an increase in gold output. AngloGold’s new chief executive officer Mark Cutifani said the firm was reviewing its operations with a view to disposing of assets that did not add value