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  • Business, labour call for multi-stakeholder group to interrogate Eskom's funding 16 May 2008 10:29 GMT
    ... South Africa's business and labour groups on Friday called ... funding mechanism needed, including the role of government, as well as a pricing mechanism that ... June 6. South Africa’s Minerals and Energy Minister, Buyelwa Sonjica, who attended the summit along ...

  • Protecting Zimbabwe 16 May 2008 10:29 GMT
    ... In light of the escalating violent repression of the opposition Movement ... is distributed equitably, without regard to the political leanings of those requiring it. Earlier this ... mitigates the suffering of African people. * South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a Nobel Peace ...

  • Zimbabwe In Africa: When Enough Is Not Enough 16 May 2008 10:29 GMT
    ... that this year featured the hotly contested election results in Zimbabwe. And prophetic in that ... in an economic coma and on edge, politically speaking. I'm surprised that a man of ... Countries such as Botswana, Tanzania, Ghana, Zambia, South Africa and Namibia fall in this category. There ...

  • Zesco makes huge loss running diesel stations 16 May 2008 10:27 GMT
    ... to the committee on estimates on his ministry’s budget performance during the period 2006-2007. “The ... Electrification Authority entered into an agreement with Government to implement 43 projects countrywide at a ... by exporting power to other countries like South Africa and how much it was spending in ...

  • Zuma, Mbeki blast attacks on foreign nationals 16 May 2008 10:20 GMT
    ... leave issues of illegal immigration to the government to sort out through humane legal methods ... Alexandra police station, displaced foreigners, and some South Africans, took refuge from mobs. But RDP homes ... Soloman Abdi, said: “I have been in South Africa for 10 years. I feel bad, I don’t ...

  • Uganda: Investigation Ordered Into CHOGM Fraud 16 May 2008 10:12 GMT
    ... THE Auditor General has instituted an independent probe into the ... awarded through competitive bidding, thus denying the Government the benefit of competitive pricing and quality, ... publicity services, the report established that the South African firm, Globecast, was paid sh7.8b, without documentation. ...

  • Labour calls for multi-stakeholder committee to debate Eskom's funding 16 May 2008 10:12 GMT
    ... South Africa's business and labour groups on Friday called ... funding mechanism needed, including the role of government, as well as a pricing mechanism that ... June 6. South Africa’s Minerals and Energy Minister, Buyelwa Sonjica, who attended the summit along ...

  • Zimbabwe urges churches to help fight violence 16 May 2008 10:10 GMT
    ... strategy. The state-controlled Herald newspaper said the government was stepping up efforts to avoid an escalation of politically motivated violence ahead of the second round ... discredit Mugabe. Neighboring states, including economic powerhouse South Africa, are concerned the instability and economic turmoil ...

  • McGee, we wear sanctions as badge of honour 16 May 2008 10:09 GMT
    ... honour By Caesar Zvayi THE news in South Africa over the past week was that the ... Matters came to a head when former South African Ambassador to the US, Barbara Masekela, was ... were instead labelled terrorists as the US government maintained open relations with the racist regime ...

  • Resemblance in politics of dither 16 May 2008 10:09 GMT
    ... have an affinity that links them as political dithers. Their politics are so similar and ... The former has made it clear the Government would not accept any conditions while the ... my daughter who returned from holiday in South Africa this week. She told me she had ...

  • Congo 16 May 2008 09:34 GMT
    ... defeated the killers and took over Rwanda's government, the Hutu exodus began and the boy's ... a terrorist organisation, but some of its political leaders have found safe haven in Europe. ... - France, Switzerland, Holland - and in South Africa, Canada and the US. Talking now under ...

  • India says RIM to resolve BlackBerry issue in 1 mth 16 May 2008 09:32 GMT
    ... its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, India's telecoms minister said on Friday. The government has held a series of meetings with ... in his talks for a stake in South Africa's MTN Group (MTNJ.J: The minister also said ...

  • 'Arms wouldn't hamper Zim' 16 May 2008 09:28 GMT
    ... them to Zimbabwe was granted because the government did not think that the weapons would ... the conflict in Zimbabwe. This is what Minister of Local and Provincial Government said on ... resulted in a court order preventing this. "South Africa is monitoring the situation in Zimbabwe constantly. ...

  • South Africans moer Australians when it comes to swearing 16 May 2008 09:27 GMT
    ... South Africans are so much better than Australians when ... times when children might be watching.) In South Africa, swearing is probably less an expression of ... reflection of its linguistic diversity. Zulu and Afrikaans are the best languages to use for ...

  • California court affirms right to gay marriage 16 May 2008 09:27 GMT
    ... were legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa and Spain. Opponents said they expected the ... ballot initiative, which has been submitted to election officials with more than one million signatures, ... Corrigan said the courts should allow the political process to address the question. "We should ...

  • Police fired at by Diepsloot residents 16 May 2008 09:24 GMT
    ... Hundreds have been displaced after xenophobic attacks Police say ... Gauteng and elsewhere could have repercussions for South Africans living abroad. Leaders speak out against attacks ... out against attacks In other reaction from politicians, President Thabo Mbeki stressed that attacks on ...

  • National energy summit gets under way in Johannesburg 16 May 2008 09:23 GMT
    ... South Africa's business and labour groups on Friday called ... funding mechanism needed, including the role of government, as well as a pricing mechanism that ... June 6. South Africa’s Minerals and Energy Minister, Buyelwa Sonjica, who attended the summit along ...

  • MDC wants an emergency summit 16 May 2008 09:20 GMT
    ... his Zanu-PF that the hold-up to the election would not be tolerated. "The delay of ... Biti said during a news conference in South Africa where the MDC leadership is currently located. ... comments come after the publication of a government gazette in which the electoral commission said ...

  • EC's Non-coherent EPA Policy on Africa 16 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... of the first priority action is the political and socio-economic integration of Africa in line with ... and Nairobi (April 2006) Conferences of AU Ministers of Trade, with the Nairobi Declaration on ... problems in the Southern African region, since South Africa decided against the initialling of an IEPA. ...

  • Drug Resistant TB Strain Confirmed 16 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... which is resistant to four TB drugs. Minister of Health and Social Services yesterday announced ... from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and South Africa have been at work in trying to ... forms of TB,” Kamwi added. Further, the Government will be renovating and altering some of ...

  • Who's Fooling Who? 16 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... Charles Tjatindi EVER had a friend who knows it ... women to astronomy, and from sports to politics. Well, I have no problem having a ... that he prefers Cosmopolitan magazine to the South African True Love mag. At that moment, all ...

  • To Know or Not to Know 16 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... where information is at the centre of political, social and economic life (Naughton 2005). Today ... more power. The media, the rich, the government are perceived as powerful, because separately and ... only two countries in Africa, Uganda and South Africa, have Access to Information laws; Zimbabwe and ...

  • Outraged cabinet plans crackdown after Alex attacks 16 May 2008 08:08 GMT
    ... such incidents had no place in democratic South Africa. The team would recommend steps to prevent ... and detracted from the fact that many South Africans were involved. “South Africa‘s transition to democracy ... South Africans. A house belonging to a South African woman was attacked.” A plan was in ...

  • Government 'Has Plan to End Alex Violence' 16 May 2008 08:04 GMT
    ... THE government is confident that it has a plan ... home attacked on Wednesday belonged to the South African sister of a councillor who had lived ...

  • Alec Has a Dream 16 May 2008 08:04 GMT
    ... IF IT wasn't so misguided there'd be something almost touching ... state in the next two decades. In government, Erwin is the architect of the developmental ... , Erwin was a member of the South African Communist Party. He doesn't believe the market ...


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