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/ 16 January 2007
Preparations to build Durban’s new King Senzangakhona Stadium for the 2010 Soccer World Cup were on track, but the city was waiting for the go-ahead from the Treasury to start the construction, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday.
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/ 16 January 2007
No employees at Mittal Steel South Africa would be forcibly retrenched for the next year, the company said on Monday. The no-forced-retrenchment agreement was first reached with Mittal’s three main trade unions, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, Solidarity and the United Association of SA, in February 2004.
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/ 16 January 2007
The African National Congress was still united and meeting challenges, President Thabo Mbeki said. Speaking in an interview on South African Broadcasting Corporation television on Monday, Mbeki said: ”The ANC is doing very well. We are making good progress with the challenges before us.”
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/ 16 January 2007
The restructuring of the country’s police management system has left some officers in the dark on where to report for duty next week, media reports said on Tuesday. Although some officers in the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal had to start working at their new offices by Monday, not all of them had been informed yet.
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/ 16 January 2007
Annanias Mathe, who escaped from the high-security C-Max prison in Pretoria last year, will appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. He is to face a charge relating to his escape in November.
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/ 16 January 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) has noted the release on Monday of its former National Assembly chief whip from prison and says that it has "consistently held" that the law must take its course without fear or favour. The party also hinted that there could be a role for Tony Yengeni in what it terms the building of a non-racial society.
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/ 15 January 2007
At least two of the Waterkloof Four should not be sentenced to long prison terms for killing a man and assaulting another, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Monday. Christoff Becker’s and Frikkie du Preez’s court-appointed probation officials recommended prison sentences, but both said they should not be for an extended period.
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/ 15 January 2007
An incident where President Thabo Mbeki was heckled while speaking at the reburial of former African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Moses Mabhida is still being investigated, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal said on Monday. ANC provincial secretary Senzo Mchunu said the party had hoped investigations into the incident would be have been completed by now.
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/ 15 January 2007
The first opportunity for the ruling party to consider whether former chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe’s dismissal can be reviewed will only be in March. The announcement by the African National Congress on Monday follows reports that the matter is scheduled to be discussed at a high-level meeting.
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/ 15 January 2007
Match referee Chris Broad revealed on Monday that Proteas batsman Herschelle Gibbs has been banned for two Test matches in connection with remarks he made on Sunday. Broad said Gibbs had been found guilty under International Cricket Council regulations.
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/ 15 January 2007
South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs was due to appear before match referee Chris Broad after the first Castle Lager Test between South Africa and Pakistan at SuperSport Park, it was announced on Monday. Gibbs’s appearance before the match referee is a result of a complaint laid against him by Pakistan team management after abusive remarks he made on Sunday.
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/ 15 January 2007
A railway line north of Pretoria was reopened on Monday afternoon following the deaths of three people when a train hit a bakkie near Ga-Rankuwa, said a railway official. The train driver and guard were sent for trauma counselling after what a witness said appeared to have been a suicide bid by the bakkie driver.
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/ 15 January 2007
The call for land invasions in Hout Bay by the Congress of South African Trade Union’s Western Cape secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, is irresponsible, illegal and a red flag to investors, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Monday. Ehrenreich maintains there is a ”battle unfolding” in Hout Bay.
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/ 15 January 2007
The student representative council of the Durban University of Technology on Monday called off its boycott plans after the institution’s management agreed to meet several of its demands over results, fees and security. SRC president Thami Shezi had initially urged nearly 1 500 students not to register.
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/ 15 January 2007
Most opposition parties on Monday strongly condemned disgraced former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni’s release on parole from Malmesbury prison after serving only four months of a four-year sentence. The ANC urged, however, that Yengeni be allowed to resume his normal life.
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/ 15 January 2007
Increasing the rate of inflation through expansionary fiscal or monetary policies will "certainly not" lead to reduction of high rates of unemployment in South Africa, a Free Market Foundation economist, Jasson Urbach, has argued in a paper entitled <i>Is South Africa Headed for a Battle between the Twin Evils?</i>.
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/ 15 January 2007
Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis steered South Africa to a comfortable win in the first Test against Pakistan on Monday. South Africa, who were chasing 199 to win, reached 199-3 with 40 minutes to go before the scheduled tea interval on the fifth day. Pakistan were dismissed for 313 in their first innings, to which South Africa replied with 417.
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/ 15 January 2007
South Africa’s decision to join China and Russia in voting against a UN Security Council resolution has been questioned by the DA.
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/ 15 January 2007
South Africa’s best-known tannie (aunt), Evita Bezuidenhout, has been overwhelmed with messages of support and calls for more information since announcing plans to make herself available as a compromise choice for president of South Africa in 2009.
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/ 15 January 2007
A former Waterkloof schoolboy convicted of killing a homeless man would be ”utterly destroyed” should he be sent to prison, his advocate said in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday. Jaap Celliers SC told the court that Christoff Bekker is ”good person material” and a lighter sentence than imprisonment should be considered.
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/ 15 January 2007
South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs has been called to appear before a Cricket South Africa disciplinary committee following remarks he made about a section of the crowd, which were transmitted to television viewers by a stump microphone during the fourth day of the first Test between South Africa and Pakistan on Sunday.
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/ 15 January 2007
An estimated 200 cattle have died of anthrax in Masvingo in Zimbabwe in the past two months, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Monday. Its website said the anthrax outbreak had been cited as the biggest threat to Masvingo’s efforts to restock its beef herd, which was almost halved in 1992’s nationwide drought.
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/ 15 January 2007
Controversial Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride, who rolled his car last month near Centurion, is on annual leave and will be back at work next Monday, his office has confirmed. This is after reports that he was on sick leave and was scheduled to return to his office on Monday.
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/ 15 January 2007
Former African National Congress chief whip and fraud convict Tony Yengeni walked out of Malmesbury prison on Monday, saying his imprisonment had been a mistake in the first place. ”It is a great day for me and my family and for the movement in that I’m now walking out of the gate of this prison, a place that I was not supposed to be in the first place,” Yengeni said.
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/ 15 January 2007
The bodies of five illegal miners are still inside an abandoned mine near Barberton, said Mpumalanga police on Monday. ”Today [Monday] we are going to ask the mine’s rescue team to help us,” said Constable Jabu Ndubane, explaining that the operation at the abandoned Fairview mine will be risky.
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/ 15 January 2007
There is ”no activity” in ruling party structures over the matter of leadership of the African National Congress at present, its deputy president, Jacob Zuma, told the South African Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday night. He said during an interview that the discussion about potential leaders has been manufactured by the media.
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/ 15 January 2007
Two people have been arrested in a Limpopo raid reportedly linked to the Pretoria High Court escapes of two Boeremag members last year. However, the arrests were not of the fugitives, Herman van Rooyen (33) and Rudi Gouws (28), who were on trial for alleged treason.
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/ 15 January 2007
The South African women’s hockey side beat Ireland 2-1 in the Spar Hockey Festival series in Stellenbosch on Sunday. The first half was dominated by the hosts, who created numerous goal-scoring opportunities but failed to capitalise, and the score was 1-1 at the break.
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/ 15 January 2007
Jomo Cosmos ran a plodding Wits University ragged during a 4-0 Premier Soccer League (PSL) drubbing at a steamy, sun-scorched Bidvest Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday afternoon. There was no respite for Wits against speedy, lithe foes who tore their defence to shreds.
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/ 15 January 2007
Argentina’s Ariel Canete closed with three birdies in the final four holes at the East Course of the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club on Sunday to become the inaugural winner of the Jo’burg Open and the first Argentinian to win in South Africa. He closed with a round of 67 over the East Course for a total of 19-under-par 266.
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/ 15 January 2007
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip and fraud convict Tony Yengeni was released from the Malmesbury prison on Monday morning. Yengeni was set free having served just more than four months of his original four-year sentence. Earlier, a group of senior Western Cape ANC leaders arrived at the Malmesbury prison to welcome him back into society.
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/ 15 January 2007
A 15-year-old boy wearing blood-spattered clothing, has been arrested in connection with the murder of 78-year-old Mpumalanga farmer Sarel Breedt, News24 reported on Monday. The blood was thought to be that of Breedt, who was tied to a chair at his Honingsdraai farm and shot in the head on Thursday afternoon.