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South Africa on Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary of Steve Biko’s murder as the country’s current leaders face accusations they have neglected the poor masses. His legacy is a rallying cry for some of the discontented, who believe the ANC leadership have placed the interests of the business community above those of the country as a whole.
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A team of 30 rescue-workers stretchered an injured base-jumper off Table Mountain at 10pm on Wednesday after an operation lasting eight-and-a-half hours, said Wilderness Search and Rescue. The 19-year-old hurt his back and ribs and sustained other minor injuries when he plummeted 30m down Platteklip Gorge at 2pm.
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Former director general of the National Intelligence Agency Billy Masetlha has implicated Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils in a ”counter-revolution” meant to destroy the African National Congress (ANC). ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe had said that certain things happening in the party bordered on ”counter-revolution”, Masetlha testified on Wednesday.
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Eyewitnesses have claimed that the engine of a two-seater Tiger Moth failed before it crashed into a truck, bus and car on a road in Ennerdale on Wednesday. A passenger in the plane died in the crash, which also killed the driver of the Iveco bus and injured 23 of the 40 security guards on board.
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The prevalence of corruption and other forms of crime in South Africa reflected a society that had embraced a culture of individualism, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. Delivering the eighth annual Steve Biko memorial lecture at the University of Cape Town, Mbeki said social ills such as corruption represented society’s rejection of positive moral values.
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Minnows Zimbabwe upset tournament favourites Australia in the first shock of the Twenty20 World Championship at Newlands on Wednesday. Opening batsman Brendan Taylor guided Zimbabwe to a five-wicket win after Australia limped to 138-9 in their 20 overs after choosing to bat on a slow pitch.
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South Africa held Uruguay 0-0 on Wednesday in an international friendly to regain some pride after a weekend mauling by Zambia. But the 2010 soccer World Cup hosts needed help from Zimbabwe referee Tendai Bwanya to contain the visitors, who finished fourth at the Copa America in Venezuela two months ago.
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A passenger in a two-seater Tiger Moth died and its pilot was critically injured when the plane crashed into a truck, a taxi and a car on the old Vereeniging Road, south of Johannesburg, on Wednesday, said emergency workers. The taxi driver also died and 22 people were injured in the crash in Ennerdale at 4.45pm, said a Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson.
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/ 12 September 2007
Netcare on Wednesday urged healthcare professionals and the public to support and implement blood-conservation projects. Its appeal comes after an urgent call by the South African National Blood Service for people to donate blood. Netcare had recognised a trend towards global blood shortages several years ago, and therefore established a blood-conservation programme.
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The state on Wednesday urged Judge Leona Theron to hand down the maximum sentence possible for three men found guilty of rape as none of the three men could be expected to be rehabilitated. The men raped three Durban women at a beach house in Pennington, south of Scottburgh, on December 29 last year.
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Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu vehemently denied on Wednesday that she was contemplating forced removals from Cape Town’s troubled Joe Slovo settlement. But in the same breath she said she had instructed her department ”to investigate legal avenues to compel residents of informal settlements to make way for housing developments”.
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Farmers who evict tenant workers illegally will have their land expropriated, Deputy Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit warned on Wednesday. ”Those people who don’t want to hear, we are not only going to take them to court, we are going to also take their land away from them,” he told MPs in the National Assembly.
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Shahid Afridi smashed 22 off seven balls and then grabbed 4-19 as Pakistan brushed aside Scotland by 51 runs in the Twenty20 World Championship in Durban on Wednesday. The pugnacious all-rounder ensured his team faced no hiccups after Craig Wright had taken three wickets to restrict Pakistan to 171-9 at the Kingsmead.
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Thanks to floor-crossing, the African National Congress (ANC) has at last secured a clear two-thirds majority in the Morkel family. The decisive moment came on Wednesday when the last of the Morkel brothers, Craig, joined the party. But the patriarch, former premier Gerald Morkel, has no intention of following in his sons’ footsteps.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has condemned the absence of ”working-class representatives” on the final list of names for the new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board approved by the National Assembly’s communications committee.
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Khutsong has not been declared a national disaster area, the Ministry of Provincial and Local Government said on Wednesday. Spokesperson for the ministry, Thokozani Mtshali, said a North West portfolio committee presented a report to the provincial legislature on Tuesday but this did not constitute a declaration.
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Xstrata has gained support for its -billion takeover of Eland Platinum Holdings from the South African company’s board, Eland said on Wednesday. ”The board is of the unanimous opinion that the terms and conditions of the offer are fair and reasonable to Eland shareholders,” the Johannesburg-based company said in a statement.
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Statistics South Africa has proposed changes to the basket it uses to measure consumer inflation to reflect new technology and social trends, it said on Wednesday. The new basket would cut the number of products in the consumer price index to 386 from 1 124. If accepted, it would come into effect from 2009.
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The recent water shortage at Gauteng’s Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is over after repairs were made to a burst water pipe. Some sections, including the entire theatre block, at the large Soweto hospital had been without water since last week Wednesday.
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South Africa will not immediately share information with other countries on a worldwide nuclear-technology smuggling ring, its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday. His statement comes a day after he urged other countries affected by the network to enhance their efforts to prosecute other role players involved in it.
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South African cricket coach Mickey Arthur was understandably delighted that his team managed to take their experience from the Standard Bank Pro20 Series into the international arena when they hammered the West Indies by eight wickets in an impressive start to the Twenty20 World Championship at the Wanderers on Monday night.
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A meeting between the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) and South African (SAA) Airways over retrenchments has failed to reach a resolution, the union said on Wednesday. National aviation coordinator Kenneth Monanna said the two parties met on Tuesday under the supervision of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.
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/ 12 September 2007
In the latest twist in the current floor-crossing saga the African National Congress (ANC), despite all its previous protestations about taking firm action against members of Parliament convicted of fraud, on Wednesday accepted into their ranks Craig Morkel, who was convicted of fraud and theft in the Travelgate debacle.
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South Africans spend most of their time on news and weather internet sites when they are online, a study done in August by global internet media and market researcher NetRatings has revealed. News and weather sites account for 23% of the time that South Africans spend online, which translates into about 1,1-million hours.
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Three men accused of raping three Durban women at a Pennington beach house on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast were found guilty in the Scottburgh High Court on Wednesday. The three were found guilty of five counts of rape. They were also found guilty of indecent assault and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
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Mark Gillespie spearheaded New Zealand’s nine-wicket demolition of Kenya in the second match of the Twenty20 World Championship in Durban on Wednesday. The paceman took 4-7 in 2.5 overs as Kenya, who were put in to bat on a responsive pitch, were dismissed for a record low of 73 in 16.5 overs.
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There are no plans to exclude white women from employment-equity policies, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said on Wednesday. He was addressing the Food and Allied Workers’ Union national conference under way in Randburg, Johannesburg, and commended the union on its conference theme.
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The inaugural Twenty20 World Championship is taking South Africa by storm, thrilling fans who are drawn to the exhilarating speed of the high-octane game where anything can happen. The dazzling opening of the 12-nation tournament in Johannesburg on Tuesday saw the 33Â 000 capacity Wanderers stadium overflowing as fans ”rocked the house, T20 style”.
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Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a North West journalist who went missing two weeks ago, police said on Wednesday. The men were arrested on Tuesday in Matlhonyane village outside Mafikeng after the badly decomposed body of Thozamile Kole (24) was found in a pit latrine.
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One thousand days before the most popular show on earth rolls into Africa for the first time, the 2010 Soccer World Cup hosts face a mammoth task in organising the extravaganza and silencing party-poopers. Delays to stadium construction, questions over transport and nervousness over safety have left South Africa constantly having to reassure that all will be right.
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The complex biology of the HI virus has posed constant challenges and even a partially effective vaccine is still some years away.
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South African pay-TV consumers will soon have a choice between many new broadcast channels — this after the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa awarded pay-TV licences to four new players during a press briefing in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The companies granted licences were Telkom Media, E-Sat, On Digital Media and Walking on Water.