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Captain Shoaib Malik and Misbah-ul Haq put on a century partnership as Pakistan stunned Australia by six wickets in a Twenty20 World Championship match at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The pair put on 119 off 78 balls for the unbroken fifth wicket to help their team recover from 46-4 and surpass Australia’s 164-7 with five balls to spare.
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The mother of a schoolboy who was stabbed to death on the weekend is a senior Gauteng education official, the department confirmed on Tuesday. Mfundo Ntshangase, a grade 11 pupil at King Edward VII high school, was stabbed seven times by pupils from another school at a party on Sunday.
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) profits have dropped by R200-million in the past financial year, the public broadcaster reported on Tuesday. The decrease was from R382-million in the 2005/06 financial year to R182-million in the past year.
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Despite the Western Cape having scored the highest matric pass rate in the country last year, only half of its learners reach matric, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday. Addressing a sitting of the provincial parliament on expenditure trends and service delivery, Manuel said the high number of learners who dropped out of school was a cause for concern.
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A distraught Randburg mother determined to meet the teenagers arrested after her son was stabbed to death was advised against it by police on Tuesday. ”I want to see for myself that the culprits … were arrested and are behind bars,” Nonhlanhla Ntshangase said. Her 18-year-old son, Mfundo, was stabbed seven times by pupils from another school at a party on Sunday.
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A disciplinary committee has found Frere Hospital whistleblower Dr Nokuzola Ntshona guilty of speaking to the media, Dispatch Online reported on Tuesday. She was found guilty on Monday on three of four charges of speaking out against the government’s reaction to a Daily Dispatch probe of Frere Hospital’s maternity section.
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Christian parents are required by God to use a rod on their children if they are defiant or rebellious, MPs heard on Tuesday. ”We do not have the option … this is a command of God,” George Raath of Life Enrichment Ministries told members of Parliament’s social development portfolio committee on Tuesday. The committee is holding public hearings on the Children’s Amendment Bill.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki and his Mozambican counterpart Armando Guebuza reached agreement Tuesday on moves aimed at increasing access and levels of trade across their common border. In a briefing to reporters after the meeting in Pretoria, senior ministers said the main crossing between the neighbours would soon undergo a major revamp.
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Four Athlone Boys’ High pupils were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the stabbing of two pupils, and other suspects are being sought, Johannesburg police said. Captain Cheryl Engelbrecht said the boys would face charges of murder and attempted murder.
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New Zealand beat England by five runs to squeak home in their Twenty20 World Championship Super Eight match at Kingsmead in Durban on Tuesday. It was more a case of England throwing away a probable victory — crazy run outs and some reckless batting cost England important wickets — and a possible place in the semifinals.
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South African Airways (SAA) is to increase capacity on more than half its routes in Africa as part of a bid to reverse its flagging fortunes, the national carrier announced on Tuesday. General commercial manager Rushj Lehutso said SAA would either increase the number of flights or the size of its aircraft serving 11 of its 19 African destinations.
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Escalating violent crime could reduce an already weak skills base in the country, an economic consultancy company said on Tuesday. ”Every effort should be made to contain negative influences like crime, especially since the South African economy is currently experiencing its most exciting growth phase since the 1960s,” the chief economist at Econometrix said.
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”Palace politics” are the biggest threat facing the national democratic revolution, South African Communist Party secretary general Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday. ”Like all palace politics, it is the politics of backstabbing, the pursuit of individual wealth,” he told delegates at the Congress of South African Trade Unions central committee meeting.
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The difficulty in implementing policies designed to protect the interests of farm workers and farmers has prompted the South African Human Rights Commission to conduct an inquiry into conditions on farms. SAHRC spokesperson Vincent Moaga said on Tuesday that public hearings would look into three issues: land-tenure security, labour relations and safety on farms.
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South African tobacco farmers should plant more in the coming season to benefit from soaring cigarette prices and fulfil expected orders from China. Louis Smit, CEO of agribusiness group Afgri’s producer services division, said farmers could increase the size of their crop from 12-million kilograms to at least 20-million kilograms.
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The JSE’s all-share index came out of the morose state it was in earlier, edging up into positive territory by midday on Tuesday driven by the turnaround in the United Kingdom’s FTSE 100. Shortly before midday, the FTSE 100 was at 6 224,10 points, 0,67% better than Monday’s close as the Bank of England added liquidity to the United Kingdom market,
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Zimbabwe is ”closer than ever to complete collapse” under the weight of a deepening economic crisis that threatens to destabilise Southern Africa. The International Crisis Group (ICG) called on the Southern African Development Community group of nations to overcome internal divisions and focus on ways to persuade Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down.
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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Tuesday reiterated that it was "not at odds" with petrochemical giant Sasol over its proposed R7-billion employment share-ownership scheme. "Media reports about the Sasol … black economic empowerment [BEE] deal would seem to indicate that there is some confusion about the department’s position," the DTI said in a statement.
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One of the runaway Kruger National Park lions was killed on Monday night after it was found eating a cow, said the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency. Spokesperson Jimmy Masombuka said the agency received a tip-off on Monday evening about the whereabouts of the lion and surrounded the area.
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Traders said South African markets may be under pressure on Tuesday as credit worries persist, but the upcoming United States interest rate decision will be the main focus. At 6.35am GMT, the rand stood at 7,23 to the dollar, softer than its New York close of 7,22 on Monday. Traders said the rand will probably trade in a ,17 to ,27/range.
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The vacancy rate in the Presidency, which comprises the offices of President Thabo Mbeki, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad, is 25% and staff turnover stands at 13,5%. CEO for the Presidency Trevor Fowler said the high turnover was a result of public-service salary structures, which could not compete with those in the private sector.
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A 101 partnership for the fourth wicket by Pakistan’s Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik set up a comfortable 33 win over Sri Lanka in a Super Eight Twenty20 World Championship match at the Wanderers on Monday. Pakistan scored a credible 189/6 in their 20 overs with Sri Lanka only managing 156 for the loss of nine wickets.
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The name Grahamstown is a step closer to being renamed after a Makana council meeting resolved that ”Grahamstown must go”. Makana mayor Phumelelo Kate told Grocott’s Mail on Monday that the name change proposal was based on historical reasons.
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A council of peacemaking world leaders and Nobel laureates launched by former South African president Nelson Mandela is taking up Darfur as its first mission, with a trip to Sudan planned later this month, the organisation said on Monday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who chairs the group known as The Elders, will lead a delegation.
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A kulula.com email advertisement has been banned because it failed to convey mandatory airport charges in its selling price, the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) said on Monday. ”The selling price must include all necessary costs without which the product cannot be purchased,” said ASA spokesperson Lillian Mlambo.
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France is to invest about €400-million in the next four years to help South Africa with service delivery, job creation and environmental and sustainable development, French ambassador Denis Pietton said on Monday. ”In terms of service delivery, we will help with providing development assistance,” the ambassador said in Pretoria.
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Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha came under fire on Monday from his own executive for the way he handled the matter of a R500Â 000 ”donation” to the South African Communist Party. The executive was particularly critical of the public statements he made on the issue, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said.
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Negotiations in a bid to resolve a crippling motor-industry strike will resume on Monday night, the Retail Motor Industry said on Monday. The four-day strike has seen several motoring-manufacturing plants temporarily closing their doors as parts became unavailable.
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Proposals are on the table to increase the salary scale of teachers substantially, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Monday. Speaking in Cape Town after a meeting of the Council of Education Ministers, she said the entry salary for graduates to the profession, for example, will rise from R99Â 625 to R115Â 492.
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South Africa remains concerned that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is still unable to draw any conclusions regarding North Korea’s nuclear activities, Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Monday. ”It is our hope that [North Korea] will return to the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty],” she said during the 51st session of the IAEA general conference.
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Four people appeared in the Manguzi Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with the murder of two women accused of bewitching a northern KwaZulu-Natal school. Police spokesperson Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said police had conducted an ”operation” that resulted in 13 people being taken into custody last week.
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The Environmental and Tourism Affairs Department has secured R500-million for the installation of energy-efficient facilities in the country’s national parks. Speaking at the launch of South Africa’s National Parks week, Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said the funds would ensure that the country’s national parks were projected as exemplary sites for energy efficiency.