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/ 25 November 2006
Bidvest Wits salvaged a point when they played to a goalless draw in their Premier Soccer League encounter against Santos at the Greenpoint Stadium on Friday night. Wits toiled hard all evening but found the Santos defence in form, especially Musa Ongao who was outstanding as he broke up many of the Wits waves of attack.
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/ 25 November 2006
The Highveld Lions can consider themselves to be in the driving seat after two days of their Supersport Series match against the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins at the Maritzburg Oval, but they will be hoping for better weather over the next two days if they are to press for victory.
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/ 25 November 2006
South Africa scored a convincing 104-29 victory over Angola in the two countries’ first-ever international in the International Wheelchair Basketball Challenge at the Mandeville Indoor Centre on Friday. It was the second heavy defeat for Angola in the competition, following their 72-40 defeat at the hands of the Pumas on Thursday.
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/ 25 November 2006
Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission deputy chairperson Alex Boraine, backed by a United Nations human rights body, has accused the National Prosecuting Authority and government of dragging their feet with regards to prosecuting people denied amnesty by the commission, media reports said on Saturday.
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/ 24 November 2006
The board of food retailer Shoprite Holdings has accepted a R13-billion buy-out offer from Brait Private Equity that involves restructuring the company and terminating its listing on the JSE. A statement issued on behalf of Shoprite Holdings on Friday said the transaction will be funded by a combination of equity and debt.
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/ 24 November 2006
Listing Aids as the cause of death on public death certificates will not in any way improve the collection of statistics on HIV-related deaths, the Aids Law Project (ALP) said on Friday. ”It is also a violation of the deceased’s right to confidentiality, which can have serious repercussions for surviving family members,” the ALP said in a statement.
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/ 24 November 2006
The investigation into service delivery by the Department of Land Affairs was a welcome development, said AgriSA on Friday. ”AgriSA has been concerned for some time about processes that were delayed in the department and the commission on restitution of land rights,” said Dr Theo de Jager, chairperson of the AgriSA land-affairs committee.
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/ 24 November 2006
A determined and united effort is needed by world leaders to stop fighting across the world, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was receiving the credentials of new diplomatic envoys from Iceland, Malawi, Canada, Belgium, South Korea and France at a ceremony at the presidential guesthouse in Pretoria.
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/ 24 November 2006
The longer police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi stays in office, the stronger will be the impression that ”with the right friends, one could get away with murder”, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Friday. ”It is in the interests of combating crime in South Africa that Selebi vacates his position,” a party spokesperson said.
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/ 24 November 2006
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) on Friday denied media reports that the SPCA euthanises dogs donated by the police. SPCA spokesperson Christine Kuch said the statement, made on Talk Radio 702 on Friday, was ”damaging”.
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/ 24 November 2006
A ”generally apathetic attitude” characterised the administration of South Africa’s pension funds, according to the Pension Funds Adjudicator. ”That things are no better in other countries, like England, is no reason for the generally apathetic attitude that appears to have taken root here,” the 2005 annual report of the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator, released on Friday, said.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africa’s medical-tourism industry has skyrocketed with the number of overseas patients drawn by ”scalpel safari” packages more than doubling in three years, an expert said on Friday. The booming sector now earns about R260-million annually, Martin Kelly, president of the Association for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, told the media.
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/ 24 November 2006
Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Friday condemned the leak of internal reports to the media. The Star reported on Friday that a confidential report had described Cosatu president Willie Madisha as power hungry, dishonest and misled by President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 24 November 2006
Global aluminium producer Alcan says construction on its R19,5-billion smelter at South Africa’s Coega development zone will start in 2008, and first production is expected before the end of 2010. The company says it will also now begin discussions with potential partners on the project.
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/ 24 November 2006
The trial of the two men implicated in the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) hoax e-mail saga was postponed in the Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on Friday so a third accused could be added. Software salesperson Muziwendoda Kunene and NIA manager for electronic surveillance Funokwakhe Madladla are accused of fraud relating to hoax e-mails.
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/ 24 November 2006
Protesters against crime called on the government to offer tax deductions for money spent on security in a memorandum handed to a Gauteng safety and security representative in Johannesburg on Friday. Lorraine Maisel, founder of the organisation Angry About Crime, handed the memorandum to Ian Robertson.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africa on Friday signed letters of intent with Guinea to help the West African country revive its transport infrastructure. The signing follows a two-day joint commission headed by Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and her Guinean counterpart, Mamady Conde, in Pretoria.
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/ 24 November 2006
Brett Kebble’s car was placed under a plastic cover and bore the message ”Do Not Touch. Investigation” when it was stored at the premises of Danmar Autobody for nearly a week after the murder of the mining magnate. This is according to the panel-beating company, which denied a report that the vehicle was cleaned on the company’s property within hours of the murder.
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/ 24 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Friday lauded the Holcim-AfriSam deal and lambasted those questioning the Swiss cement company’s motive in selling most of its South African subsidiary to a black consortium. Mbeki said Holcim had decided it made good commercial sense for Holcim South Africa to be black-owned and controlled.
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/ 24 November 2006
A Johannesburg woman told delegates to an international conference at the University of Cape Town on Thursday how she was robbed of her car last month by ”humane” hijackers — one of whom even gave her advice on how to avoid being hijacked again in future.
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/ 24 November 2006
Police in Gauteng are planning an offensive against crime over the festive season. Preparation includes gathering information on what syndicates are planning and updating their list of the most wanted criminals, said police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africa has temporarily scrapped stringent visa requirements for Zimbabweans, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Friday. Its website said this emerged during the second session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security in Harare.
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/ 24 November 2006
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon on Friday accused the Presidency of ”a glaring double standard” in its treatment of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Writing in his weekly newsletter, Leon referred to the September 7 2003 allegation that then-National Prosecuting Authority director Bulelani Ngcuka had been a police spy during the apartheid era.
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/ 24 November 2006
Police on Friday said that the man who escaped from the high-security C-Max prison in Pretoria on the weekend has ”the luck of the devil”. ”He must be the devil’s child himself because we get new leads every day but he has not yet been arrested,” said investigating officer Arnold Boonstra. ”He seems to have the luck of the devil.”
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/ 24 November 2006
Mpumalanga will continue to have poor matric results unless the government implemented a comprehensive education rescue plan, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. ”Information obtained by the DA indicate that the results for June exams are extremely poor and improvement in the 2006 matric results may be minimal, if any,” DA spokesperson on education Anthony Benadie said.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africans should not be surprised at the anger and brutality that was sweeping the streets when they continued to refuse to acknowledge the socio-economic inequalities in the country, Dr Mamphela Ramphele said on Thursday. Ramphele was speaking in Cape Town at a conference reflecting on the work of the former Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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/ 23 November 2006
Computers stolen from the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) have all been replaced, said a PAP official on Thursday. ”The computers have been replaced,” said PAP media liaison officer Matome Sebelebele. Earlier in the day, PAP finance committee chairperson Wycliffe Oparanya accused South Africa of not living up to its responsibility as the host country, by failing to replace the computers.
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/ 23 November 2006
A disciplinary hearing into allegations of unprofessional conduct by the former chief state pathologist of the Free State, Dr Leon Wagner, has started in Bloemfontein without him entering any plea. It is alleged that Wagner recorded ”Aids” as the cause of death without the proper evidence and or examining the body.
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/ 23 November 2006
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Thursday rejected any notion that China has ”sinister motives” in Africa. Briefing journalists in Pretoria and Cape Town, he said China’s involvement in Africa was relatively new. ”I want to believe that the Chinese government realises that the relationship cannot just consist of receiving our raw materials,” he said.
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/ 23 November 2006
A total of 303 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have been confirmed across the country, the Department of Health said on Thursday. ”They are in the hospitals, they are on treatment. Some of them have died,” said the department’s head of TB, Dr Lindiwe Mvusi. Mvusi did not have details at hand of how many had died.
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/ 23 November 2006
While employment is still growing in South Africa, it is not as strong as the 30Â 000 jobs being created per month last year. ”No matter which data set you look at, the fact that is that employment is still growing in South Africa … but we are off target for government’s goal of halving unemployment by 2014,” said economist Mike Schussler.
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/ 23 November 2006
Security steps have been taken at the Kruger National Park in the wake of attacks at four entrance gates and camps of the park between August and October, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has said. Armed Kruger National Park security and ranger personnel have been deployed at all entrance gates.