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A 17-year-old pupil was in a serious but stable condition in hospital after he was stabbed at his school in Nyanga on Tuesday, Cape Town police said. The boy was in a classroom at Oscar Mpetha High when two youths stormed in at 10.15am and stabbed him in the head and back, Captain Randall Stoffels said. Two teenagers were arrested.
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The decision to fire Jacob Zuma as the country’s deputy president was correct, the African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday. ”The ANC accepts and supports the decision of President Thabo Mbeki to release deputy president Jacob Zuma from his duties in government following due consideration of the ruling in the Shaik trial,” said ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe.
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A senior journalist with the East London Daily Dispatch, Lew Elias, has died. His wife, Liesl, said Elias, who had been diagnosed with cancer about three months ago, passed away at his East London home at about 6am on Sunday November 12.
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South African musician Jabu Khanyile (47) died in a Johannesburg hospital on Sunday November 12. Khanyile began his music career in Soweto at a very young age. He played with different bands for a decade before joining Bayete, first as a drummer and then as the band’s lead vocalist, radio news reported.
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President Thabo Mbeki has appointed Deputy Auditor General Terence Nombembe to replace retiring Auditor General (AG) Shauket Fakie with effect from December 1, Parliament announced on Tuesday. Nombembe has been Deputy AG for the past five years and his term of office in the top post will be seven years.
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The regional trade imbalance in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries has remained in favour of South Africa despite major tariff removals, President Thabo Mbeki told the SADC parliamentary forum on Tuesday. The forum consists of representatives from the legislatures of SADC member countries.
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It is too late for Judge Hilary Squires to distance himself from the ”generally corrupt” phrase as Jacob Zuma’s name is already ruined, the African National Congress Youth League said on Tuesday. ”Hilary is not assisting anyone with distancing himself from the phrase ‘generally corrupt’, he’s basically deepening the legal crisis,” said president Fikile Mbalula.
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South Africa will press on with its mediating role in Burundi to get the last active rebel group to sign a peace accord, Pretoria’s special envoy to the Great Lakes region said on Tuesday. "We are not throwing in the towel. We will carry on," Kingsley Mamabola told a seminar, adding that the National Liberation Forces rebel group was "the one piece left out of the jigsaw puzzle".
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Only slightly more than one out of 10 South Africans with bank accounts have used their cellphones for banking, according to research released by World Wide Worx on Tuesday. A surprising finding from the research is that the youth market is the least likely to have tried cellphone banking.
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Nine African elephants in KwaZulu-Natal facing death following a successful land claim were moved to a wildlife sanctuary in Limpopo over the weekend, animal rights activists said on Tuesday. The previous land owners were planning to kill the elephants as the new owners intended using the land solely for farming, said Animal Rights Africa’s Michele Pickover.
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The South African Communist Party (SACP) has expressed its serious concerns about the Supreme Court of Appeal’s recent ruling in the Schabir Shaik matter, the party said on Tuesday. ”The SACP notes and wishes to express its serious concerns about the implications of the letter written by Judge Hilary Squires to Business Day,” a party statement read.
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The state is eyeing the end of July next year as a trial date for the travel agents and politicians charged in the alleged parliamentary travel voucher fraud case. This emerged during a brief appearance by the remaining 12 accused in the Cape High Court on Tuesday.
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Drivers should expect delays on their way to the office on Wednesday in Pretoria’s central business district (CBD), Tshwane Metro Police have warned. ”Operation Adherence”, the metro police’s search for drivers with outstanding warrants of arrest, would move into the city on Wednesday, said metro police spokesperson Mel Vosloo in a statement.
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A task team has been appointed to improve the state of South Africa’s mines, the Chamber of Mines said on Tuesday. ”As our gold mines are relatively old, more work needs to be done in order to achieve our goal of reaching international standards in 2013,” said the chamber’s senior executive, Frans Barker, in Johannesburg.
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India will counter South Africa’s pace attack with their own fast bowlers. This was the promise made by Indian coach Greg Chappell on Tuesday. Chappell was speaking after the team’s arrival for a seven-week tour that includes a Twenty20 match, five one-day internationals and three Test matches.
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A board of inquiry has been set up to investigate the horror accident in which 19 people were killed when a train ploughed into a truck carrying farmworkers on a rail crossing near Somerset West, Metrorail said on Tuesday. ”It must be noted that the accident has nothing to do with commuter rail and the state of our infrastructure,” said spokesperson Lucky Tshepo Montana.
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Apologies and explanations flowed on Monday after Judge Hilary Squires’s denial that he found the relationship between former deputy president Jacob Zuma and businessman Schabir Shaik to be ”generally corrupt”. In Bloemfontein, the Supreme Court of Appeal said it erred in ascribing the phrase to Squires.
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Trade unions on Monday called for more consultation over diamond giant De Beers’s planned retrenchment of about 1 000 workers. The number of employees affected has grown from 963 to 1 124 out of about 7 000, said Solidarity spokesperson Reint Dykema.
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Judge Hilary Squires’s denial that he had referred to a ”generally corrupt relationship” between former deputy president Jacob Zuma and Schabir Shaik has no legal implications, said the National Prosecuting Authority on Monday. The denial has led to fierce comment from political parties and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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More than 100 patients were evacuated from the Tshepong hospital near Klerksdorp in the North West after heavy rains flooded the hospital on Monday. Hospital chief executive Kathy Randeree said patients were moved to Klerksdorp hospital, Potchefstroom hospital and mining hospitals in Stilfontein and Orkney.
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Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota is misleading whites when he asks them to join the South African National Defence Force, the Freedom Front Plus said on Monday. Media reports on Monday said top white students in the South African Air Force won’t be trained as fighter pilots because they have to make way for black students.
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The South African Hong Kong Sixes squad, captained by Nicky Boje, were crowned champions of the Hong Kong Sixes tournament after beating Pakistan in the final by 12 runs at the Kowloon Cricket Club on Sunday. In the final, Boje set up victory for South Africa with a speedy 32 runs off 14 balls.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday received its long-awaited documents relating to the so-called Oilgate scandal from state oil company PetroSA. A DA spokesperson said PetroSA has handed over about 30 documents, including contracts between black economic empowerment company Imvume Management and itself.
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The African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League on Monday called for the immediate suspension of the ANC’s chief whip in the National Assembly, Mbulelo Goniwe, pending an investigation of sexual-harassment allegations. The league views these allegations as very serious, it said.
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The North West housing department has dismissed the findings of the province’s housing portfolio committee on the quality and number of houses being constructed in Taung. A departmental spokesperson on Monday said the report is factually incorrect and misleading.
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Nineteen people were killed and 12 injured in an accident involving a train and a truck at a railway crossing near Somerset West in the Western Cape, Metrorail confirmed on Monday afternoon. Earlier reports had quoted a Netcare 911 spokesperson as saying that 27 people had died in the accident.
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Former African National Congress chief whip and fraud convict Tony Yengeni will be hauled before a Correctional Services Department hearing for his alleged breach of the parole code of conduct. Yengeni, who was granted parole for the past weekend, is being investigated following claims he contravened the code of conduct.
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South Africa on Monday sought to deflect criticism that it is dragging its feet on the roll-out of Aids drugs, saying about 60Â 000 people have been added to the programme in the past year. The Health Ministry also defended controversial Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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The search for four crew members of a supply tug that went missing on the KwaZulu-Natal coast last week will continue indefinitely, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday. ”We’re not speculating that the crew may have drowned,” said NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.
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Canadian rock band Nickelback’s South African tour, which had been due to kick off on November 25, has been postponed due to the band members’ ”chronic exhaustion” following an extensive American and European tour, promoter Kusasa South Africa said on Monday.
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South African integrated media group Moneyweb Holdings on Monday reported fully diluted headline earnings per share of 0,54 cents for the six months ended on September 30 — unchanged from the previous comparable period. Fully diluted earnings per share were at 0,55 cents compared with 0,03 cents last year.
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The granting of a weekend pass by the Correctional Services department to fraud convict and former parliamentary African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni "sends the wrong message about corruption to the South African public", says Democratic Alliance correctional services spokesperson James Selfe.