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/ 27 November 2006
The South African Land Claims Commission is well behind targets for the redistribution of agricultural land, the Herald Online reported on Monday. It quoted chief land-claims commissioner Tozi Gwanya as saying about four million hectares of agricultural land had been distributed since 1998.
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/ 27 November 2006
Her department has no plans to grant maternity leave to pupils, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said through her spokesperson on Monday. Responding to weekend media reports, Lunga Ngqengelele said in a statement that the department and Pandor never considered proposing a compulsory maternity leave.
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/ 27 November 2006
There is an urgent need to integrate legislation for financial services within Southern African countries to curb cross-border financial fraud, the Financial Services Providers’ Ombudsman said on Monday. ”The harmonising of legislation across Southern African Development Community [SADC] countries must be accompanied by … enforcement,” ombudsman Charles Pillai said.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Democratic Alliance on Monday called for an urgent investigation into the Gautrain project, suggesting the Auditor General lead it. This follows weekend reports that two Cabinet ministers, among others, are among the shareholders of a consortium tasked with the already controversial Gautrain project.
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/ 27 November 2006
Drinking and driving can cost motorists more than a lost licence, a fine and jail time, an insurance company said on Monday. Keith Kennedy, executive general manager of claims at Mutual and Federal, said a motorist driving under the influence of alcohol is not insured.
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/ 27 November 2006
Criminals should not be allowed to penetrate state institutions, police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi said on Monday at the launch of the Government Sector Security Council (GSSC) in Pretoria. The GSSC’s main role will be to coordinate, monitor and regulate security of certain national key points.
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/ 27 November 2006
Energy security is a challenge that governments in Africa and the world have to confront as it is indispensable to improving peoples’ lives, South African Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Monday. ”Whilst energy demand is increasing, the contribution of some primary energy sources to climate change presents us with challenges,” said Sonjica.
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/ 27 November 2006
South Africa have recalled Ashwell Prince for the last two one-day internationals against India. Prince replaced fellow batsman Boeta Dippenaar in the only change to the squad that has earned South Africa a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. Prince (29) played the last of his 37 one-day internationals against Sri Lanka in Hobart on February 7.
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/ 27 November 2006
About 12Â 000 people will flood into Cape Town this weekend for the biggest international conference the city has ever hosted — the three-yearly World Diabetes Congress. The executive director of the International Diabetes Foundation, Luc Hendrickx, told reporters in Cape Town on Monday that diabetes is responsible for about four million deaths worldwide every year.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Democratic Alliance (DA) must transform its reputation as the voice of the white minority before it can ever hope to challenge the African National Congress’s stranglehold on power, analysts said on Monday. Tony Leon stunned observers on Sunday when he announced he would step aside at the party conference in May next year.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Waterkloof Four will have to wait until next year to find out what their punishment will be. On Monday their case in the Pretoria Regional Court was postponed yet again and argument for mitigation of their sentence will now only be heard from January 15 2007.
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/ 27 November 2006
Ruthless sea pirates who plunder hundreds of ships each year off the coast of Africa are moving south, threatening South African waters, the Pretoria News reported on Monday. The United Nations Security Council has urged the Southern African Development Community to take drastic action against the gangs of heavily armed pirates.
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/ 27 November 2006
South Africa may have gone a long way to addressing racial injustices but there is a growing acceptance that its huge wealth gap threatens to derail the achievements of the post-apartheid era. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which shone the light on abuses committed by all sides during apartheid, is credited with playing a major role in reconciling the races of South Africa.
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/ 27 November 2006
The privatisation of key state-owned assets is no longer the flavour of the year owing to the South African Communist Party having placed this matter in the arena of public debate. The party said the shift had taken place soon enough "to prevent terrible damage done to key public assets".
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/ 27 November 2006
Hank McGregor and Clint Pretorius won the South African double-ski title in emphatic style at the weekend, breaking the record for the Hansa Knysna Sedgefield race and wrapping up a clean sweep of ski and river titles for McGregor. The duo covered the course from Leisure Isle to Sedgefield in less than two hours.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Titans beat the Eagles by one run on Sunday in their Supersport Series four-day match played at SuperSport Park in Centurion. This is only the second such result in the history of South African first-class cricket and the 32nd in all first-class cricket.
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/ 27 November 2006
Team Lincoln — Bobby Lincoln and Retief Goosen — captured the seventh Nelson Mandela Invitational title, hosted by Gary Player, with a superb eagle on the second hole of a sudden-death play-off on Sunday. Lincoln sunk a two-foot putt after hitting a stunning seven-iron approach from 171m to the par-five 18th.
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/ 27 November 2006
Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has denied that she stands to benefit from the construction of the Gautrain. She was reacting to a report that she, Education Minister Naledi Pandor, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete stood to gain from the Gautrain.
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/ 27 November 2006
Diminutive Venezuelan international Jose Torrealba came on for Mamelodi Sundowns as a second-half substitute and scored the 54th-minute winning goal in their 2-1 victory over Maritzburg United at the Harry Gwala Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Torrealba replaced a sluggish, rusty Peter Ndlovu.
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/ 27 November 2006
In a country where HIV/Aids kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new. But at one hospital in rural KwaZulu-Natal province, what could be a new public health nightmare is taking its toll as doctors and nurses grapple with a new, highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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/ 27 November 2006
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik has been admitted to hospital, Correctional Services Department officials said on Monday. The offcials refused to divulge his condition but confirmed that he was in hospital. ”We can only acknowledge that he’s been taken to hospital,” said deputy commissioner of communications Manelisi Wolela.
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/ 26 November 2006
India were outplayed by South Africa in every department, coach Greg Chappell said on Sunday, after his team suffered their second comprehensive defeat by South Africa in the MTN one-day international series. After a disastrous start, South Africa set India the daunting target of 275 for victory.
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/ 26 November 2006
A fire at Cape Town International Airport on Sunday morning delayed some flights but caused no injuries, the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) said. The fire started in the kitchen of News Café in the international terminal at 8.15am, said Acsa spokesperson Deidre Hendricks.
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/ 26 November 2006
A senior official of the Department of Social Development was caught driving at 228kph on the N1 highway near Kliprivier, Johannesburg metro police said on Sunday. The male official, in his 50s, was the fastest-travelling motorist in Johannesburg to be caught by police to date, a police spokesperson said.
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/ 26 November 2006
Tony Leon will step down as leader of the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in May, he told reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday. He said 13 years in office is ”the absolute upper limit of effective leadership”. Leon will, however, remain an MP and continue writing a book he has been commissioned to publish.
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/ 26 November 2006
The four-day Supersport Series match pitting the Lions against the Dolphins in Pietermaritzburg remained balanced in favour of the Lions, who had 266 runs to the good, after three days on Saturday, with four wickets standing. The two sides battled it out in weather that ranged from reasonably bright to rain showers.
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/ 26 November 2006
Two-time United States Open champion Retief Goosen’s hot putter guided Team Lincoln to a two-shot lead after the first round of the 2006 Nelson Mandela Invitational, hosted by Gary Player. The Goose and senior pro Bobby Lincoln signed for 10-under-par 62 thanks to an inward nine 29 from Goosen.
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/ 26 November 2006
Bad light brought play to an early end on the third day of the Supersport match between the Warriors and the Cape Cobras at Buffalo Park in East London on Saturday. At that stage the Cobras were 41 runs in arrears at 37 for one wicket in their second innings, with Benji Hector on 19 and Andrew Puttick on four not out.
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/ 26 November 2006
Kaizer Chiefs players and officials were smiling again after ending a recent slump — which included elimination from the lucrative Telkom Knockout competition — with a 3-1 Premier Soccer League win over Black Leopards at Thohoyandou Stadium on Saturday night. Also, Supersport United beat Golden Arrows 5-1 in Pretoria.
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/ 26 November 2006
Orlando Pirates were poised to emerge from the pit of Premier Soccer League despair in which they have sunk this season at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon when all hell broke during a 50th-minute debacle in the 1-1 draw with Jomo Cosmos. Ultimately, the game disintegrated into a kick-and-rush affair.
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/ 26 November 2006
A one-month-old baby allegedly stolen near Orkney has been found in the Free State, North West police said on Saturday. The baby’s mother identified her at a Parys hospital where she had been taken after allegedly being found abandoned, said spokesperson Superintendent Louis Jacobs.
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/ 26 November 2006
Gauteng minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia launched the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Saturday. Marches against violence and abuse took place in Johannesburg — where participants wore stilettos — and Cape Town.