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/ 27 January 2007
The murder of tourism personality and Anglo-Zulu war pundit David Rattray has shocked leaders in the South African tourism industry. South African Tourism Services Association CEO Michael Tatalias said on Saturday that Rattray had been one of South Africa’s greatest ambassadors.
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/ 27 January 2007
Spending on the construction of Northern Cape hospitals has not been put on hold due to costs for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, said the National Treasury on Saturday. On Thursday it was reported that construction of a R200-million hospital in De Aar had been delayed by a year due to a cutback in funds from the Treasury.
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/ 27 January 2007
Attempts by the Modikwa Platinum Mine in Limpopo to resolve a racism dispute with miners deadlocked on Friday evening, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said. ”The issue of racism has partly been addressed by suspending the two mine managers who wrote racist e-mails, which were circulated around the company,” said NUM spokesperson Humbulani Tshikalange.
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/ 27 January 2007
Legendary tourism personality and Anglo-Zulu War expert David Rattray was attacked and killed at his lodge at Rorke’s Drift on Juanuray 26, KwaZulu-Natal police said. His killer entered his house and fired a single shot before being ordered to re-enter the building to fire another two rounds, according to a source close to the scene.
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/ 27 January 2007
Santos did neighbours Ajax Cape Town a favour on Friday evening at the Athlone Stadium when they beat Silver Stars 2-0 after leading 1-0 at the interval in their Premier Soccer League encounter. The win keeps Ajax at the top of the log, one point ahead of Stars.
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/ 27 January 2007
Former South African president FW de Klerk said on Friday that Afrikaans is under threat after regional police accused authorities of banning the language. Afrikaans-speaking police officers complained that officials in the Western Cape had declared English the only means of communication.
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/ 27 January 2007
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi came under fire in Parliament on Friday for inadequate control of firearms and problems over police vehicles, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. An Auditor General’s report showed the number of stolen and lost firearms had tripled.
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/ 26 January 2007
Pakistan fought back after a first-innings collapse on the first day of the series-deciding third and final Test against South Africa at Newlands on Friday. South Africa were 131-5 at the close of play in reply to Pakistan’s 157 all out. Mohammad Yousuf saved Pakistan from total embarrassment, hitting more than half his team’s runs before being last man out.
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/ 26 January 2007
There is not enough evidence suggesting that former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni had violated any animal rights during the slaughter of a bull at his father’s house, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) said on Friday.
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/ 26 January 2007
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) lashed out at the Mail & Guardian on Friday following the publishing of an article that uncovered structural breakdown and infighting within the organisation. The ANCYL said in a statement that it ”categorically rejects” the claims of an organisational crisis.
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/ 26 January 2007
The Eastern Cape had temperatures so high on Friday that they were almost hazardous to health, the South African Weather Service said. ”Both Port Elizabeth and East London are at around a discomfort index of 107,” said spokesperson Garth Sampson, adding that an index of 110 is hazardous to health.
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/ 26 January 2007
Tradition should not be used as an excuse for cruelty, the author of Animal Rights in South Africa said on Friday of the controversial slaughter of a bull by fraud convict Tony Yengeni following his release from prison. She was responding to Yengeni’s spearing of a bull before slaughtering it during a cleansing ritual.
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/ 26 January 2007
The customs branch of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) has confiscated goods worth R2-million that illegally bore the 2010 Fifa World Cup logo, Sars said on Friday. Spokesperson Adrian Lackay said the goods were seized on four occasions in Durban in the last quarter of last year.
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/ 26 January 2007
British Airways (BA) has cancelled flights to South Africa pending a strike by cabin crew, it said on Friday. British Airways South Africa general manager Lin Glass said no flights from London to South Africa would be available on January 30 and 31. Flights from South Africa to London on February 2 and 3 would also be affected.
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/ 26 January 2007
More than 100 firefighters worked through the night to control two raging veld fires in the Southern Cape and Klein Karoo, Eden municipality disaster management said on Friday. The fires started on Thursday in Stilbaai in the Southern Cape and between Uniondale and Avontuur in the Klein Karoo.
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/ 26 January 2007
The South African Police Service has welcomed the apology of two newspapers for the ”factually incorrect” story that a young prostitute was beaten into a coma by police officers. ”The correction, however, addressed only certain of the incorrect statements,” national police spokesperson Sally de Beer said on Friday.
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/ 26 January 2007
The two unions representing most of the country’s commercial farmers said they hope President Thabo Mbeki will intervene in a dispute between them and Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana. AgriSA and TAU SA walked out of a meeting with Xingwana on Friday where they wanted to discuss tensions between them and her.
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/ 26 January 2007
South Africa’s United Nations vote on Burma earlier this month is not an anomaly in its human rights record under the Mbeki presidency, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Friday. ”It is consistent with a larger pattern in which South Africa, through its deeds, if not words, eschews human rights issues,” he said.
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/ 26 January 2007
South Africa will not contribute troops to an African peacekeeping force in Somalia, but will study other ways to help stabilise the war-ravaged country. Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota made the decision after reviewing South Africa’s overseas peacekeeping commitments, which include forces in Burundi, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 26 January 2007
President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday to attend the annual World Economic Forum, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Department spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said Mbeki and a delegation will participate in the forum ”within the context of South Africa’s priority to promote North-South cooperation in support of the African agenda.
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/ 26 January 2007
The group of Cape Town residents that it was feared might mount a crippling legal challenge to the city’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium have decided to work with the authorities in planning the complex. The decision was taken on Thursday night at a meeting of the Green Point Common Association.
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/ 26 January 2007
Security was tight in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court where South Africa’s ”Houdini”, Annanias Mathe, made a brief appearance on Friday. Nine police officers armed with R4 rifles escorted the limping Mathe inside the court. His case was postponed to March 30 for further investigation. He faces at least 50 charges.
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/ 26 January 2007
South Africa’s new football coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, arrived in Johannesburg on Friday to launch what is hoped will be a successful bid to become world beaters when they host the Soccer World Cup in 2010. The Brazilian was welcomed by South African Football Association chief executive Raymond Hack when he touched down at OR Tambo International Airport.
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/ 26 January 2007
More than 2Â 000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers at the Modikwa Platinum mine in Limpopo started striking at 6am on Friday to demand an end to racism at the mine. ”Working conditions for whites here are made to be much better than their black counterparts,” said spokesperson Onis Serothwane.
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/ 26 January 2007
Embattled South African cricketer Herschelle Gibbs voiced disappointment on Thursday at missing the next Test with Pakistan and the first two one-day-internationals because of an International Cricket Council (ICC) ban. ICC appeals commissioner Richie Benaud imposed the ban in upholding a finding that Gibbs used abusive language in the Test match between South Africa and Pakistan.
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/ 26 January 2007
The United States is expected to place two South Africans on its list of terrorism suspects on Friday — a massive list of 325 000 names which has been criticised by rights groups as possibly including innocents. Diplomatic sources said that Junaid Ismail Dockrat and his cousin Farhad Ahmed Dockrat, have been named as terror suspects to al-Qaeda.
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/ 26 January 2007
South Africa’s Tongaat-Hulett group intends investing another R1,3-billion in sugar production in Mozambique, said Mozambican news agency AIM on Thursday. Tongaat-Hulett is a shareholder in two Mozambican sugar companies, at Xinavane in Maputo province and Mafambisse in Sofala.
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/ 25 January 2007
Popular Afrikaans musician Anton Goosen was robbed of R584Â 000-worth of personal belongings by four armed men at his house in Hennopsrivier Valley near Hartbeespoort Dam, Gauteng police said on Thursday. The men made off with Goosen’s pistol, a DVD player, a TV set, a laptop computer, CDs and an undisclosed amount of money, spokesperson Captain Julia Klaasen said.
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/ 25 January 2007
The FW de Klerk Foundation has threatened legal action against the Western Cape police’s English-only language policy. It said on Thursday if it hasn’t received a formal response from provincial Commissioner Mzwandile Petros by Monday, it will seek a court order forcing him to bring his policy in line with national police requirements.
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/ 25 January 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has written to the African National Congress to complain about the ”leaking and twisting” of discussions at its lekgotla (meeting) over the weekend. Cosatu disapproved of the use of the media, by some, to fight internal battles, spokesperson Patrick Craven said on Thursday.
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/ 25 January 2007
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will meet diamond giant De Beers in Kimberley on Friday to discuss planned retrenchments, the NUM said. ”The discussions are a continuation of earlier talks on [the] De Beers plan to retrench workers in the province,” said Rivonia Morwakgosi, the NUM’s Kimberley regional chairperson.
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/ 25 January 2007
South Africa should have condemned Burma’s military regime and supported a call for sanctions against it, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday. It joined others who have criticised the country using its inaugural vote at the United Nations Security Council earlier in January to vote against a resolution demanding an end to human rights abuses in Burma.