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/ 5 November 2007
An Eastern Cape man was on Monday convicted of indecently assaulting and murdering his aunt because she owed him R20. Grahamstown High Court Judge Jeremy Pickering found that Caswell Nkanunu, of Emasimini, murdered Nomanci Taliwe (47), of Elliot, in her house on December 11 2004.
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/ 5 November 2007
International nuclear-power technology company Westinghouse Electric on Monday announced that it had acquired South African company IST Nuclear for an undisclosed amount. Westinghouse launched its newly acquired South African operation under the name Westinghouse Electric South Africa.
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/ 5 November 2007
United States television magnate Oprah Winfrey said on Monday that abuse charges at her all-girl academy in Johannesburg was one of the most devastating experiences in her life. ”This has been one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating, experiences of my life,” she said in a video news conference from Chicago.
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/ 5 November 2007
Union representatives and management of the company contracted to build Durban’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium will meet on Tuesday in a last-ditch attempt to avert a strike that would halt construction at the stadium. The National Union of Mineworkers is demanding project bonuses of R1 500 a month for each worker.
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/ 5 November 2007
Former Tshwane mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was admitted to hospital on Monday after the vehicle in which he was travelling collided head-on with a Toyota Tazz in Pretoria, Tshwane metro police said. Spokesperson William Baloyi said the accident occurred at about 9am at the corner of Pretorius and Church streets.
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/ 5 November 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>A reported networking lounge at this year’s African National Congress (ANC) national conference could set taxpayers back by up to R40-million, the Democratic Alliance warned on Monday. Media reports said that big business is to fork out R5-million for a seat on the sidelines of the ANC’s national conference in Polokwane next month.
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/ 5 November 2007
The government is busy changing environmental legislation to ”streamline” further the way environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are carried out, Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced on Monday. ”Using EIAs as the only means of dealing with environmental impacts is severely limiting,” he said.
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/ 5 November 2007
A German manufacturing company has invested about R284-million in South Africa’s first fabrication yard for oil and gas platforms as part of a R1,7-billion investment pledge, government news agency BuaNews reported on Monday. MAN Ferrostaal has opened the fabrication yard for oil and gas platforms at Saldanha Bay near Cape Town.
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/ 5 November 2007
A former dormitory employee at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg was released on R3Â 000 bail by the Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Virginia Mokgobo was arrested on charges of indecent assault, assault and crimen injuria.
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/ 5 November 2007
The takeover bid of media company Johncom by Koni Media Holdings — belonging in part to President Thabo Mbeki’s political adviser Titus Mofolo — was met with strong opposition by the Democratic Alliance and the South African Communist Party on Monday.
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/ 5 November 2007
African nations are failing to control tuberculosis and could be overwhelmed by drug resistant strains of the infectious lung disease, with dire implications for the war on HIV/Aids, a leading Aids activist said on Monday. ”The explosion of tuberculosis on the continent is combined with the explosion and advance of the HIV epidemic,” said Zackie Achmat of the Treatment Action Campaign.
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/ 5 November 2007
Fire damaged five operating theatres at Coronation Hospital in Newclare, Johannesburg, on Monday, causing several patients to be moved to nearby hospitals, the provincial department of health said. Patients who require emergency medical operations were moved to Johannesburg and Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospitals.
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/ 5 November 2007
South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti said it expected a government inspection to be conducted on Monday at one of its larger mines, which was shut on Friday after a miner was killed in a rock-fall. AngloGold shut its TauTona mine after the worker died in the early hours of Friday.
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/ 5 November 2007
A British warship, the HMS Southampton, is expected to arrive in Cape Town on Monday for a visit on the final part of an eight-month deployment from the United Kingdom. The ship has operated around the Pacific, South America and the South Atlantic as the UK’s ”on call” warship in the area.
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/ 5 November 2007
A Durban motorist shot a hijacker on Sunday night when a gang pounced on him, police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Captain Debbie O’ Brien said several armed men had attempted to hijack a man in Sandhurst Road in New Germany at about 9:30pm.
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/ 5 November 2007
A television exposé of horrific conditions in South Africa’s prisons has earned Hazel Friedman this year’s prestigious Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award. The national winners in various categories were announced at a ceremony held at Vodaworld in Midrand on Sunday evening.
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/ 5 November 2007
Johannesburg police arrested a man on Monday in connection with an armed robbery at a Pick ‘n Pay supermarket in Mulbarton over the weekend. Police spokesperson Captain Julia Claasen said the man was found in a ditch where he had been hiding since the robbery on Sunday evening.
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/ 5 November 2007
Two more men have been arrested in connection with the murder of former crime journalist Elaine Anderson, police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Henry Budhram said the two men -– aged 24 and 33 — were nabbed by police on Saturday in the Ntoubeni area in Edendale.
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/ 5 November 2007
A slim majority of the population favoured racial quotas in national sports teams, a survey by the Human Sciences Research Council said. The results from the South African Social Attitudes Survey showed there were still strong racial disparities in the level of support for quotas.
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Big business is to fork out R5-million for a seat on the sidelines of the African National Congress (ANC) national conference next month, with some of that money likely to end up in the party’s coffers. Thirty businesses have applied for a stall in the ANC’s network lounge.
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/ 5 November 2007
The JSE remained weak at midday on Monday, in line with overseas markets as the troubled US subprime housing market continues to unsettle investors worldwide. At noon, the JSE’s all-share index was off 0,96%, resources fell 1.70%, the platinum mining index weakened 1,74%, but the gold mining index added 0,98% as the gold price stayed above $800/oz.
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/ 5 November 2007
Platinum Stars and Wits shared the spoils in a goalless draw in their Absa Premier match played at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Mmabatho on Sunday. The home team, Stars, controlled both halves but were let down by their strikers who failed to get past Wits goalkeeper Moeneeb Josephs.
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/ 5 November 2007
Andre Petim, the Ajax Cape Town goalkeeper, was his side’s hero as he saved a late penalty to share the spoils with Free State Stars in a goalless Absa PSL match at the Athlone Stadium on Sunday evening. Ajax were out to avenge the 1-0 defeat they suffered at the hands of Stars, who eliminated them from the Telkom Knockout competition.
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/ 5 November 2007
Koni Media Holdings on Sunday denied government involvement in its bid to take over media and entertainment company Johncom. ”Koni Media strongly denies any involvement of the Presidency or any other government structures in its bid for a 100% stake in Johncom,” said group CEO Groovin Nchabeleng.
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/ 5 November 2007
Five robbers were arrested — four of them with gunshot wounds — after a shoot-out with the police after a robbery at the Checkers supermarket in Bryanston, north of Johannesburg, on Sunday. Johannesburg police spokesperson Captain Julia Claassen said the five-man gang robbed staff and customers of an undisclosed amount of money and cellphones.
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/ 4 November 2007
The emerging Orlando Pirates lost 2-1 to Mamelodi Sundowns at a packed Loftus Stadium in an Absa Premier League game played on Sunday. Esrom Nyandoro scored first for the two-time league champs in the 37th minute and then Lucas Thwala netted the equaliser four minutes later.
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/ 4 November 2007
SA Rugby has confirmed the names of the finalists in the main categories of the 2007 Absa SA rugby player of the year awards. The awards banquet, which will be attended by the Springbok squad, takes place on November 7 at the Sandton Convention Centre.
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/ 4 November 2007
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After eight years at the helm of Africa’s economic powerhouse, Thabo Mbeki cuts an increasingly lonely figure as the battle for the reins of the African National Congress (ANC) approaches its finale. As well as taking fresh blows from his political foes, the president has also become the target of senior ANC party members.
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/ 4 November 2007
Zimbabwe’s judicial system has ground to a halt following a nationwide strike by magistrates, judges and prosecutors for higher wages, according to state radio on Saturday. A junior magistrate earns the equivalent of about a month, while a high court judge is paid about .
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/ 4 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki’s political adviser and a government official are among a group who want to take over Johnnic Communications (Johncom). Koni Media Holdings, a company belonging to Mbeki’s adviser Titus Mafolo, Foreign Affairs Department spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa, former chief of state protocol Billy Modise and a businessman, have launched a R7-billion bid.
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/ 3 November 2007
With hardly anyone in the PSL able to place the ball in the back of the net, Amazulu goalkeeper Tshepo Motsoeneng decided to give all and sundry a lesson in the Premier League game against SuperSport United at a noisy, but relatively deserted Super Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
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/ 3 November 2007
Veteran bowler Shaun Pollock has been included in a 12-man squad named for the first Test against New Zealand at the Wanderers from Thursday, but it is by no means a foregone conclusion that he will play. Although he travelled to Pakistan for both the Test and one-day internationals, Pollock did not play in either of the Test matches.