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Free State provincial minister for safety and security Playfair Morule is facing a charge of culpable homicide after a man was killed in a hit-and-run accident, Free State police confirmed on Monday. ”An incident of culpable homicide is being investigated,” said Superintendent Annelie Wrench.
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/ 4 September 2006
Four armed men robbed three foreigners on their way to a World Health Summit on the R21, Pretoria police said on Monday. Inspector Paul Ramaloko said the three delegates, two men and a woman from France, Germany and Nigeria, were on their way to Pretoria north to attend the summit on Sunday when a Hyundai bumped their Microbus from behind.
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/ 4 September 2006
Democratic Alliance chief whip Douglas Gibson should apologise for invading First Lady Zanele Mbeki’s privacy, said Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday. Mlambo-Ngcuka called Gibson’s behaviour ”an invasion of Mrs Mbeki’s privacy and injurious to her dignity as a citizen”, said her spokesperson Thabang Chiloane in a statement.
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/ 4 September 2006
Australia’s coach John Connolly on Monday singled out the South African pack as the most impressive aspect of the Springboks’ revival against New Zealand in the Tri-Nations on the weekend. ”I thought it was a pretty solid performance by the Springboks,” Connolly said of Saturday’s match in Rustenburg, where the All Blacks were beaten 21-20.
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/ 4 September 2006
A countrywide Shoprite Checkers strike on Monday continued into its 48th day with no settlement to the workers’ disputes in sight, the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) said. ”There’s nothing much happening at the moment,” Michael Pau, Saccawu’s national chairperson, said.
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/ 4 September 2006
The thorny issue of white atonement for apartheid has been thrown under the South African spotlight after a former white hard-line minister washed the feet of a black preacher his forces once tried to kill. The furore erupted last month when it emerged that Adriaan Vlok, a minister of law and order under apartheid, had apologised to Reverend Frank Chikane, a prominent anti-apartheid activist.
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/ 4 September 2006
After angry exchanges on Monday between the judge and the defence teams in the baby Jordan-Leigh Norton murder trial, the case was postponed to Thursday, when it is likely to be postponed again for some months. Dina Rodrigues and four accomplices, including a juvenile who may not be named, are in the dock.
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/ 4 September 2006
About 1 000 taxi passengers burned tyres and blocked off taxis on Monday in Chatsworth, Durban, in a protest against fares, the Daily News reported. Its website said the protesters — armed with sjamboks, stones and sticks — said a R1,50 taxi-fare hike would ”break their backs”.
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/ 4 September 2006
A Pretoria High Court judge on Monday refused so-called ”lion killer” Mark Scott-Crossley bail pending the outcome of an appeal against his murder conviction and life sentence. Judge Jerry Shongwe said he was not convinced Scott-Crossley’s conviction was suspect.
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/ 4 September 2006
Outgoing Auditor General Shauket Fakie has lashed out at municipalities that have again failed to submit timeous financial statements for the financial year ended June 30 2005. Only 126 — 44% — of the 284 municipalities complied with the August 31 2005 deadline for submitting their 2004/05 financial statements, the auditor general said.
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/ 4 September 2006
An agreement to limit Chinese clothing and textile imports has brought mixed reaction, with labour in the textile industry welcoming the opportunity to rebuild the industry and the Democratic Alliance saying it will bring price increases. The China-South African agreement follows more than a year’s negotiations. It sets quantitative targets on specified clothing and textile products.
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/ 4 September 2006
The president’s head of communications, Murphy Morobe, will leave his post at the end of the month to become the CEO of Kagiso Media, the company announced on Monday. Current CEO Roger Jardine has been appointed as executive director, said Johnson Njeke, deputy chairperson of Kagiso Media and group MD of Kagiso Trust Investments.
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/ 4 September 2006
South African President Thabo Mbeki is to host his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week to discuss issues aimed at strengthening relations between South Africa and the Russian Federation — with the emphasis falling on economic relations. Putin is also scheduled to meet business leaders during his two-day visit starting on Tuesday.
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/ 4 September 2006
Tree felling in Rosebank and Sandton will begin this week to make way for the Gautrain, the company said on Monday. Golden trumpet trees will be removed along Sturdee Avenue in Rosebank and one lane of the road will be closed to traffic during off-peak times, said Barbara Jensen, spokesperson for Gautrain Rapid Rail Link.
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/ 4 September 2006
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) says it will back the existing Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) leadership at this month’s congress, with the addition of a metal worker to the top structure. ”Numsa backs the current collective leadership,” said Numsa general secretary Silumko Nondwando on Monday.
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/ 4 September 2006
Mittal Steel has extended a long-term wage agreement with three unions, the company said on Monday. The unions involved in the agreement reached last month were the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa, Solidarity and the United Association of South Africa.
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The African National Congress is not investigating claims by Jacob Zuma that there is a conspiracy against him, the ANC said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference to brief the media on a planned vigil to be held outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday night, KwaZulu-Natal ANC secretary general Senzo Mchunu said he was not ”aware” of any investigation.
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/ 4 September 2006
August saw the most new cars ever sold in one month in South Africa, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on Monday. ”Assisted by strong consumer demand and purchases by the car rental industry, new car sales were nothing short of spectacular,” the organisation said of the 39Â 215 units sold.
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/ 4 September 2006
The statement by religious commentator and director of the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa, Charles Villa-Vincencio, that South African whites should act in their own ”enlightened self-interest” and put something back into the country has evoked a storm of reaction.
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/ 4 September 2006
More children are attending and finishing school but more are vulnerable due to poverty and the death of at least one parent, said an Education Department report released on Monday. The report found that the demand for high school and higher education institutions would probably grow strongly while demand for primary schools would grow more slowly.
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/ 4 September 2006
Recent interest-rate adjustments may have a negative impact on output in the short term but they will ensure that inflation remains within the target band over the long run, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said on Monday. He said this in turn will be beneficial for competitiveness and hence sustainable growth over the long run.
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Africa’s great crocodile hunter saluted his Australian counterpart on Monday, saying the death of Steve Irwin by a stingray barb was an ”unfitting” end for the fearless showman. ”I’m very upset to hear about it. I know that he led a dangerous life but it just doesn’t seem right that a fish should kill him… It is an unfitting death for him,” said Khalid Hassen.
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/ 4 September 2006
South Africa had to become an advanced information-based society in which information and communication technology (ICT) tools were the drivers of economic and societal development,” President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. Although South Africa had a diverse and dynamic telecommunications market with world-class technology, there were still many untapped opportunities.
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Three of the country’s top legal minds will face off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday in the corruption trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma. While Zuma believes his case should be thrown out of court, the state is arguing that he should stand trial to prevent ”clouds of suspicion” hanging over the man who could be elected president.
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/ 4 September 2006
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) has condemned bodyguards’ destruction of media photographs of President Thabo Mbeki entering a Pretoria Medi-Clinic on Thursday. This amounted to ”gross censorship unacceptable under South Africa’s Constitution”, Misa’s chairperson Raymond Louw said on Sunday.
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/ 3 September 2006
Leading the Falcons 26-12 at half-time in the Currie Cup premier-division fixture played in very warm conditions at Absa Park, Kimberley, on Saturday afternoon, Griquas were made to fight all the way by Piet Krause’s team before coming from behind to win the match 36-27.
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/ 3 September 2006
Coming off possibly their greatest victory in Test rugby, Springbok coach Jake White on Saturday evening watered down any thoughts that his team had completely turned the corner. However, he praised his charges’ tenacity at beating the All Blacks by the narrowest of margins in an epic Tri-Nations battle.
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/ 3 September 2006
A large group of South African women infected with HIV are among 150 delegates of last month’s International Aids Conference seeking refugee status in Canada, the Toronto Sun‘s website reported. The newspaper reported that the women did not return home after attending the Aids conference in Toronto last month.
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/ 3 September 2006
Woolworths on Saturday criticised a move by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to impose a quota on the number of Chinese clothing and textile exports to South Africa. The two-year restriction will begin on September 28, said Woolworths chief executive Simon Susman.
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/ 3 September 2006
First Lady Zanele Mbeki says her right to privacy was violated after the Democratic Alliance (DA) hauled journalists to her and President Thabo Mbeki’s retirement home in Johannesburg, on suspicion that the government funded it. The DA expressed outrage at reports that the government was footing a R22-million bill for the house.
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/ 3 September 2006
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) on Saturday called for changes to be considered in the tripartite alliance to give the South African Communist Party (SACP) a stronger role, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reports. The union held its national congress this week.
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/ 3 September 2006
At least one person died and a child was injured when he was flung from a vehicle in an accident on the N1 in Johannesburg on Saturday night, said Johannesburg emergency services. A car travelling north on the N1 was coming up to the 14th Avenue offramp in Quellerina when it was apparently rear-ended by a BMW.