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Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.org
06-17-07

From 1994-Present approximately 2,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
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New Feature: Browse Readers' Comments quickly...
17-Jun-2007: Folks, I've added two new features to the site. 1. The one is a "Browse Readers' Comments function in the menu. This will allow you to view the latest Readers' Comments at a glance. If you want t...
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S Africa: Markets shrug off public service strike and poor retail sales fig
17-Jun-2007: Phumzile Langeni THE public servants strike brought on by the wage dispute between the unions and government has had serious consequences for South Africa. While the strike had a significant im...
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SABC CEOís job may be on the line
17-Jun-2007: 16/06/2007 19:15 - (SA) SíBUSISO MSELEKU SABC group chief executive Dali Mpofu may lose his job if the SABC fails to recoup the soccer broadcast rights from rivals SuperSport. This is t...
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S Africa: Policewoman shot in face
17-Jun-2007: 16/06/2007 17:16 - (SA) Johannesburg - A policewoman was shot during an armed robbery at Isipingo on Saturday, Durban police said. Spokesperson Superintendent Phindile Radebe said the polic...
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S Africa: SMS scam nets millions
17-Jun-2007: Mastermind hiding from people whose lives he ruined June 16, 2007 Edition 1 Carvin Goldstone and Babington Maravanyika AN SMS-related pyramid scheme has fleeced hundreds of Durban and Johan...
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S Africa: 2 dead, 30 hurt in crash
17-Jun-2007: 16/06/2007 12:09 - (SA) Johannesburg - Two people were killed and thirty injured in an accident in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, Arrive Alive said. Spokesperson Tshepo Machea said a group 5...
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S Africa: Durban Metro Police intensify raids
17-Jun-2007: June 16 2007 at 04:31PM By Fiona Gounden Durban Metro Police have arrested 12 prostitutes in one night in the Chatsworth area and are now going to intensify raids to clamp down on this "growi...
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Zimbabwe: Application Thrown Out
17-Jun-2007: The Herald (Harare) 16 June 2007 Harare GLEN View legislator Paul Madzore and 12 other party activists accused of undergoing banditry training in South Africa will remain in remand prison after...
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Zimbabwe: Five Accused of Plotting Coup to Topple President
17-Jun-2007: The Herald (Harare) 16 June 2007 Fidelis Munyoro Harare FIVE men -- including a former member of the Zimbabwe National Army -- have been arrested for allegedly plotting a coup to topple Presid...
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Middle East: Fatah fighters storm parly
17-Jun-2007: 16/06/2007 16:15 - (SA) Hossam Ezzedine Ramallah - Chanting "Hamas Out," masked Fatah fighters armed with assault rifles and Palestinian flags stormed the parliament building in the West Ba...
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Germany refuses Zim officials
17-Jun-2007: 16/06/2007 14:07 - (SA) Harare - Zimbabwe will not send a delegation to an African Caribbean Pacific-European Union (ACP-EU) meeting in Germany next week after the German embassy in Harare deni...
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Zimbabwe: Legislators Pass Bill Allowing Government to Spy On Telecommunica
17-Jun-2007: Media Institute of Southern Africa (Windhoek) PRESS RELEASE 15 June 2007 Posted to the web 15 June 2007 Zimbabwe's House of Assembly on 13 June 2007 passed the controversial Interception of Co...
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From Russia: Chavez's purchase of submarines
17-Jun-2007: From a friend in Russia. Thank you L! Chavez s new purchases of weapons. Now - Russian submarines for $2 bn. Commandante likes to talk very much about how to overcome poverty. No doubts the most r...
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S Africa: Destruction of angry mobsters
17-Jun-2007: Angry mob sets light to building Beeld, Jun 14 2007 03:22:32:190PM - (SA) People who lived in the old Durban Deep minehospital in Roodepoort, apparently set light to the building on Thursday...
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"The Zimbabwean" now on sale in SA
17-Jun-2007: "The Zimbabwean" a newspaper from the UK is now being sold in SA. I thought you might like to have a look at their website... www.thezimbabwean.co.uk regards Wendy...
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UK: 'Al-Qaeda' Operatives Sentenced in Britain
17-Jun-2007: Here's a report that details how "al-Qaeda" operatives were plotting a dirty bomb attack in Britain and also in the U.S. In my personal view, I believe many British Muslims are being tricked into sup...
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The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gain
17-Jun-2007: This interesting videoplay comes from Shane in the UK. This applies to all western country's its 3 hour long video and gives a whole new understanding of how money works http://video.google.c...
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US: Commies Defend Their Atrocities Attack Capitalism
17-Jun-2007: Here's the Communist Party USA embracing their fellow comrades that are mostly horrible dictators, ranging from Communist Vietnam, the late Saddam Hussein to even Imperial Japan which was a member of ...
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SA deporting 600 Mozambicans ever week
17-Jun-2007: Maputo - About 600 Mozambican nationals illegally living in South Africa were being deported back to their country every week, government officials said on Friday. According to a statement by t...
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SA: Taxi Wars: Taxi owner shot dead
17-Jun-2007: A 53-year-old taxi driver who owned several minibus taxis in Krugersdorp has been shot dead, Gauteng police said on Saturday. Spokesperson Captain Siphiwe Ndlovu said the taxi had stopped at a ...
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Fidentia boss's mansion 'was Yuri brothel'
17-Jun-2007: By Clayton Barnes Fidentia boss Arthur Brown's home is a multi-million rand house at Sunset Beach once used by murdered underworld figure Yuri "The Russian" Ulianitski as an escort agency. ...
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SA: Murder accused gets R300 bail
17-Jun-2007: A man accused in the Cape High Court of helping to murder a friend's father, was released on R300 bail on Friday. James Jacobs was visibly relieved when Judge Denis van Reenen said it would be ...
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SA: The Police may go on strike
17-Jun-2007: The South African Police Service is to bring an urgent court application on Friday to stop police from joining the public service strike, as it enters its third week. Spokesperson Director...
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Mozambique: Theft endangers railway line
17-Jun-2007: Maputo - Swift operations on the rail line to Mozambique's prime northern port of Nacala are threatened by increased incidents of the theft of safety clips. The northern corridor development co...
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SA: Blacks stone Guard to death
17-Jun-2007: A fire destroyed shacks at an informal settlement in Mamelodi near Pretoria on Friday, police said. Police spokesperson Paul Ramaloko said the cause of the fire was not known, but it started af...
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SA: CORRUPTION: Hundreds caught for Road Accident Fund scams
17-Jun-2007: By Fiona Gounden A special team of investigators has arrested a total of 120 Road Accident Fund fraudsters, including doctors, lawyers and others, in KwaZulu-Natal...
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Zim police shoot man at roadblock
17-Jun-2007: Harare - Police in eastern Zimbabwe shot and killed a man at a roadblock after the driver of the car he was travelling in refused to stop, reports said on Friday. The man who was sitting in the...
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SA: Highest death rate is for kids under four
17-Jun-2007: There has been a continuous increase in the number of deaths in South Africa from 1997 to 2005, according to Statistics SA figures on mortality and causes of death. In 2005, 590 000 people died...
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Israel: Fatah's 'day of humiliation'
17-Jun-2007: June 14 will be etched on the memory of Fatah officials as a day of humiliation and pain when, as one of them put it, their Palestinian brethren in Hamas showed them less mercy than arch-foe Israe...
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SA: Strike: Make-or-break day for strikers
17-Jun-2007: By Michael Schmidt It's make or break on Sunday as labour and the government lock horns, with each trying not to blink first in what is expected to be the final, sleep...
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SA: The First CrimeLine Successes: R10 to arrest 10 suspects
17-Jun-2007: Ten people have been arrested for various crimes since the launch of a crime tip-off service last week, police said on Friday. Over 1 600 smses had been sent so far, according to a joint st...
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SA: White man's throat slit - Gory murder stuns community
17-Jun-2007: By Barbara Cole and Miranda Andrew When Marc Grobler, a founding member of Amanzimtoti's Community Crime Prevention Organisation (CCPO), saw a man sitting in the back seat of a car parked under...
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SA: Massive SMS scam nets tens of millions
17-Jun-2007: By Carvin Goldstone and Babington Maravanyika A SMS-related pyramid scheme has fleeced hundreds of Durban and Johannesburg churchgoers of millions of rands, disrupted ...
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Zim soldiers were plotting coup - report
17-Jun-2007: Harare - A group of soldiers was in custody in Zimbabwe on charges of plotting to oust President Robert Mugabe and replace him with a cabinet minister, a newspaper report...
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Durban Metro Police intensify raids
17-Jun-2007: By Fiona Gounden Durban Metro Police have arrested 12 prostitutes in one night in the Chatsworth area and are now going to intensify raids to clamp down on this "growing problem taking place af...
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SA: The Coloureds want their own Political Party
17-Jun-2007: By Lynnette Johns Controversial city councillor Badih Chaaban says he is in talks with prominent businessmen and politicians to create a new political home for coloured people. Like...
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SA: Cape cops close to meltdown
17-Jun-2007: By Weekend Argus Reporters The Western Cape is being policed by a blue line stretched so thin that it has reached crisis point, says a damning report penned by experts...
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SA: Blacks: We will kill and die for land
17-Jun-2007: A man hired to help protect a shack demolition team was beaten, kicked and finally stoned to death by enraged Mamelodi residents. His horrified colleague, Paulus M...
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SA: Who killed Karvelas?
17-Jun-2007: By Anna Louw Human rights activist and principal Nick Karvelas, who was gunned down in front of his Alberton home, feared for his life after his run-in with three "brutal" police officers. ...
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Jewish Task Force - Rhodesians never die...
16-Jun-2007: (I see that one of our AfricanCrisis supporters and posters is also a member of the Jewish Task Force. On JTF he posts with his logo being that of a youthful Ian Smith at the time of UDI (Unilateral D...
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Commie Chavez Acquiring Russian Submarines
16-Jun-2007: Looks like Commie Chavez is asking his buddy Vladimir Putin on acquiring a few Soviet era submarines: From MH Venezuela's Chavez to finalise Russian submarines deal 06-14-2007 Venezuelan Pres...
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Sarkozy Inviting Hezbollah to Lebanon Conference
16-Jun-2007: Now what the hell is Sarkozy doing inviting terrorists like those in Hezbollah to a Lebanon conference in France? What about Muslim immigrants who were radicalized into hating the West rioting in the...
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Iranian State Television Promotes Finkelstein
16-Jun-2007: Here's another "Noam Chomsky" I was talking about who is in the U.S. His name is Noam Finkelstein and he is rabidly pro-Communist, pro-PLO, pro-Hamas and anti-Israel. Can't imagine why the Islamo-Na...
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S Africa: Botswana national fined for trying to fine officer
16-Jun-2007: Johannesburg - A Botswana national was fined R2 000 for speeding and trying to bribe a traffic officer by the Groot Marico Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, after spending 11 days in jail. Mandla M...
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More South Africans dying
16-Jun-2007: 14/06/2007 17:21 - (SA) Johannesburg - Deaths in South Africa are on the increase, with the 590 000 recorded deaths in 2005 rising 3.3% from the previous year, according to Statistics SA (Stats...
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S Africa: Lions kill man in enclosure
16-Jun-2007: 14/06/2007 16:12 - (SA) Polokwane - A Zimbabwean illegal immigrant was killed and his brother narrowly escaped death when they landed in a lion enclosure at a game farm in Limpopo, police said ...
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S Africa: N Cape protest turns violent
16-Jun-2007: 14/06/2007 17:21 - (SA) Kimberley - Police fired rubber bullets at Postmasburg residents who were protesting about service delivery in the Northern Cape town on Thursday. Spokesperson Super...
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UN, Red Cross, OxFam: Zim: Mugabe Regime will collapse in 6 months (My Comm
16-Jun-2007: From MH: Here's something none to surprising about Mugabe. I am certainly curious, with the reports of Mugabe being openly aggressive of his ZANU-PF party taking control of his opposition, is Mu...
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[Pic] [Humour] An Honest Black Taxi...
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[Cartoon] Can I sue the Doctor for Sexual Harrassment?
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[Cartoon] The Bob Woolmer Murder...
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Scientists: World Oil running out? Only 4 years left?
15-Jun-2007: World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists Scientists challenge major review of global reserves and warn that supplies will start to run out in four years' tim...
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[8 Pics] GRUESOME: SA: Was a Woman beheaded in Johannesburg or Jamaica?
15-Jun-2007: This is a dreadful and terrible story. The photos below are ugly - you've been warned. Now let me tell you the pieces of the story I know... I got an email from one of the regular visitors to my si...
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USA: 6 Myths about Work...
15-Jun-2007: Each generation revolutionizes something. Today's younger generation is revolutionizing work. The goals people have, their values and opportunities have all changed drastically in the last 10 year...
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SA: CORRUPTION Dozens nabbed for R3 million fraud
15-Jun-2007: Police have arrested 80 people for Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud involving R3,7-million. Director Phuti Setati said they were accused of colluding with touts to fabricate information about...
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SA: Cash van hijacked in Cape Town
15-Jun-2007: Three armed men hijacked a cash-in-transit van in Cape Town on Thursday before making off with bags of money, Western Cape police said. The driver of the SBV van was held up while waiting for t...
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EXCELLENT: Zim: Australia looks at prosecuting Mugabe
15-Jun-2007: By Peter Fabricius Foreign Editor Canberra - The Australian Government has explored the possibility of seeking an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution against Zimbabwean Presi...
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SA: Man dies from stab wound to the neck
15-Jun-2007: An 85-year-old man was murdered in Durban on Wednesday night, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Thursday. Spokesperson Constable Lungi Jama said: "Charles John was murdered in his car opposite the A...
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SA: Police fire rubber bullets at protesters
15-Jun-2007: Police fired rubber bullets at Postmasburg residents who were protesting about service delivery in the Northern Cape town on Thursday. Spokesperson Superintendent Hendrik Swart said four people...
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DA councillor faces fraud probe
15-Jun-2007: By Anell Powell ANC provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha has filed a criminal complaint of fraud against DA councillor Wilma Brady over the releasing of provincial la...
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Thieves robbing Mozambique of power
15-Jun-2007: Maputo - The theft of electrical materials from Mozambique's national power utility's installations, mainly for re-sale outside the country, has reached alarming proportions. Celestino Sitoe, a...
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Comoros islanders fear more fighting
15-Jun-2007: By Ahmed Ali Amir Moroni - Residents of a rebellious Comorian island feared more fighting on Thursday after local authorities concluded elections held in defiance of t...
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SA: Corruption: Dozens nabbed for fraud
15-Jun-2007: By Sibusiso Mboto The combined efforts of Commercial Branch of the police, the National Prosecuting Authority and Road Accident Fund investigators has resulted in the arrests of 80 people in Ju...
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SA: Dead Woman dumped beside road after burglary
15-Jun-2007: By Karen Breytenbach A young woman who was at home in Strandfontein when it was burgled has been found dead beside Baden Powell Drive with a single bullet wound to the...
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Zim: Controversial snoop law passed
15-Jun-2007: Harare - Zimbabwe's parliament, heavily dominated by President Robert Mugabe's party, has passed a controversial new law that allows the government to monitor phones, emails ...
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S.Africa: 590,000 die each year (AIDS on increase!)
15-Jun-2007: Deaths in South Africa are on the increase with the 590 000 in 2005, 3,3 percent up on the previous year, according to Statistics SA (Stats SA) figures on mortality and causes of death. "Th...
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Zim: I'm not dead - Zim central bank governor
15-Jun-2007: Harare - Zimbabwe's hard-talking central bank governor Gideon Gono has been forced to prove he is still alive after illegal foreign currency dealers threw street parties foll...
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You are a danger to the community
15-Jun-2007: A man who raped a teenage girl while he was out on bail pending a trial for the rape an adult woman, was jailed for 15 years by the Cape High Court on Thursday. Passing sentence, Judge-Pres...
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Cops, suspects injured in shootout
15-Jun-2007: A police officer and two suspects were injured in a shootout at a hostel in Diepkloof early on Friday, said Soweto police. Captain Phillemon Khorombi said police from the Booysens station went ...
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SA: Mom blames strike for baby's death
15-Jun-2007: A toddler suffering from a lung infection died after nurses at a Bloemfontein hospital told his mother to take him home as they were preparing for a strike, Die Volksblad reported on Thursday. ...
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SA: Organised Crime? Cable theft syndicates 'elusive'
15-Jun-2007: By Anel Powell While the scourge of copper cable theft cost the City of Cape Town R22-million in 2006 alone, law enforcement authorities seemed unable to clamp dow...
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Kids taught with dagga (Cannabis) money, says cop
15-Jun-2007: The union representing the majority of South Africa's police called on Thursday for a review of the laws against dagga and sex work. In resolutions approved on the final day of its national con...
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SA: Zuma ambitious despite corruption clouds
15-Jun-2007: By Michael Georgy Jacob Zuma said on Thursday he would still consider running for the leadership of the African National Congress and the country if charged again...
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Zim: MDC faction vows to continue with protests
15-Jun-2007: By Gershwin Wanneburg Zimbabwe's main opposition party will stage protests and strikes to pressure President Robert Mugabe's government to adopt democratic reform...
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SA: Mbeki urges rethink on top brass pay rises
15-Jun-2007: (Everyone wants more money... But these bastards in Govt and the Civil Service get far higher pay rises than any of us do in Civilian work! Our increases are much less than what these buggers are stri...
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ex-Pat in Canada: S.Africa Road ahead: Guns 'n Roses...
15-Jun-2007: Hi Jan / JoAn Was thinking this morning about the ìRoad Ahead for SAî. As we are all aware, this year for the ANC is a ìcritical yearî as in December 2007 they will be voting for a new ANC preside...
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Libya Oppositing U.S. Military Command for Africa
15-Jun-2007: Here's no surprise coming from the likes of the "moderate" Libyan dictator Gaddafi: MH Libya opposes US military command for Africa Libya opposes a proposal by the United States to set up a mili...
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Strike presages clash in South Africa
15-Jun-2007: By Michael Wines Wednesday, June 13, 2007 JOHANNESBURG: A nationwide strike by South Africa's public-service unions has shuttered schools, crippled hospitals and hamstrung courts - but it has not...
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Welcome to Hamastan?
15-Jun-2007: Looks like Hamas is certainly taking control over Gaza: MH Jun. 12, 2007 15:42 Updated Jun. 13, 2007 2:51 Gaza on verge of becoming Hamastan By KHALED ABU TOAMEH Palestinian Authority Chairman...
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Shimon Peres Becomes Israeli President
15-Jun-2007: This is the man who helped Rabin get Yasser Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize and allowing Arafat and his successor-Mahmoud Abbas obtain the "moderate" voice. What a creep this guy is, it's now even worse t...
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S Africa: Govt 'creating alcoholics'
15-Jun-2007: 13/06/2007 14:01 - (SA) A pressure group has threatened to bring a class action against government and the wine industry over the issue of alcohol abuse among farmworkers. The Black Associa...
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Al Gore 08?
15-Jun-2007: Looks like the likes of Al Gore may certainly appear in 08:MH AL GORE II? June 13, 2007 -- DON'T count out Al Gore as a presidential candidate - Bill Clinton certainly hasn't. Clinton, whose wif...
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South Africa: De Beers may be asked to explain '90's exports
15-Jun-2007: Business Day (Johannesburg) 13 June 2007 Linda Ensor Cape Town Diamond producer De Beers could be summoned by Parliament to answer questions about how it was able to export 20-million carats of ...
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S Africa: Man killed in N West protest
15-Jun-2007: Man killed in N West protest 13/06/2007 20:27 - (SA) Johannesburg - One man was killed when a shot was fired during a protest at a township in Wolmaransstad in North West on Wednesday, police ...
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Strike escalates in South Africa
15-Jun-2007: Thousands of public sector workers have taken part in peaceful marches across major South African cities as unions stepped up strike action over pay. Protesters in red T-shirts chanted slogans denou...
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Welcome to Bono's 'People's Republic'
15-Jun-2007: Here's something that exposes Bono to certainly be a Marxist radical:MH Welcome to the People's Republic of Bono The G8 should change its name to the G9. Because if this yearís summit in Heilige...
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Case of a Soviet-Controlled Dissident?
15-Jun-2007: Here's something about the author who exposed a network of Soviet-gulag system now praising the likes of Vladimir Putin, despite deaths of his critics happening under his watch or consolidating more p...
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Suspect in fake-cheques scam appears in court
15-Jun-2007: By Mzolisi Witbooi A foreign man accused of milking American Express of R200 000 using counterfeit traveller's cheques has been denied bail in the Wynberg magistrate's...
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Protesters 'not alone'
15-Jun-2007: Police and prisons staff were with strikers "in spirit", the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union national congress was told in Cape Town on Wednesday. One of the union's deputy presidents, Ru...
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Murder case delayed by missing interpreter
15-Jun-2007: By Irene Kuppan The trial of two men accused of murdering 19-year-old Tremaine Dedekind at the skate park on Durban's North Beach two years ago had to be adjourned on Tuesday because there was ...
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Woman wounded after interrupting burglary
15-Jun-2007: A woman was shot and injured in an attack at her home in Laezonia north of Johannesburg on Tuesday night, said her father. Gawie Joubert said his daughter, Huibrecht Joubert, 38, arrived at her...
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Men make grisly find on banks of river
15-Jun-2007: Two Pretoria men collecting water for a traditional ceremony from a river outside the city made a grisly discovery - skeletal remains hidden under rocks in a shallow grave. ...
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Thirteen arrested in two provinces for fraud
15-Jun-2007: Thirteen people, including a South African Revenue Service (Sars), employee have been arrested on Wednesday in connection with fraud and money laundering, Sars says in a stat...
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Guards injured during heist in Joburg
15-Jun-2007: Two security guards were injured when robbers rammed a BMW into a cash van at City Deep in Johannesburg on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Superintendent Thembi Nywashu said guards had just c...
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Man killed after cop's house is set alight
15-Jun-2007: One man was killed when a shot was fired during a protest at a township in Wolmaransstad in North West on Wednesday, police said. Superintendent Louis Jacobs said the incident occurred when pro...
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Pretoria bank robbed
15-Jun-2007: Six armed men made off with an undisclosed amount of cash after they held up staff at a Pretoria bank on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramaloko said the gang entered the First N...
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Cost of living soars in Zimbabwe
15-Jun-2007: The cost of living for an average urban family in Zimbabwe rose by 66 percent last month, the country's consumer watchdog said in its latest report on Wednesday. The Consumer Council of Zimbabw...
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Cops to monitor Polokwane protests
15-Jun-2007: A strong police contingency will monitor a public servants march in Polokwane in Limpopo, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Superintended Mohale Ramatseba said police would also mon...
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Micah: 'Fractures tell tale of abuse'
15-Jun-2007: Baby Micah Bramely Patterson suffered extreme neglect before he died. He was underweight, his teeth had cavities and fractures on his skull were evidence of the extreme force...
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No more power for Zim, says DRC
15-Jun-2007: Harare - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) severed power supplies to Zimbabwe over an unpaid debt of $5-million (about R36-million), it emerged on Tuesday. Zimbabwe, which is already exper...
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Interior designer brutally killed
15-Jun-2007: The body of a Camps Bay woman has been discovered in a yard in Maitland - four days after she was last seen dropping her daughter off at a prestigious girls' school in Cape Town. Interior decor...
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Arrests made for possession of ATM explosives
15-Jun-2007: Eight people were arrested for having explosives used to bomb ATMs, Ekhuruleni police said on Wednesday. Spokesperson, Inspector Mveli Nhalpo said police raided a house in Rabie Ridge after rec...
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June 16 'attack' email a hoax: police
15-Jun-2007: Police have rejected as a hoax an email that warns people against "stonings and shootings" on Gauteng highways on Saturday. National spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said on Wednesday the em...
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White wants Boks to maintain momentum
15-Jun-2007: Springbok coach Jake White is looking forward to seeing how his charges match up when they face Australia's strongest team of the 2007 season in a Vodacom Tri-Nations Test at...
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Masetlha's lawyers a 'security risk'
15-Jun-2007: A request by axed National Intelligence Agency (NIA) boss Billy Masetlha to have his lawyers present during interviews with a task team set up by Intelligence Inspector-General Zolile Ngcakani was tur...
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'They shot my son in front of me'
15-Jun-2007: By Leila Samodien "I begged the police not to shoot my son, but they killed him right in front of me," Mzimni Kula said over and over again. His eldest child, 26-year-old David Kula, was...
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Phishers are still out there
15-Jun-2007: The fraudsters are still phishing in SA "waters", but often their catches slip away from them. Last week I heard from two Standard Bank customers who'd had fairly large sums of money "mysteriou...
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'Black diamonds' drive economy
15-Jun-2007: South Africa's big-spending burgeoning black middle class is a primary driver of economic growth and is expected to contribute more than R180-billion to the country's R640-billion consumer spending th...
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Man says 'police' beat him
15-Jun-2007: By Irene Kuppan An Amanzimtoti man believes that someone paid two off-duty police officers to kidnap, rob and assault him. Police say he was probably the target of criminals who posed as...
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Zim police release female protesters
15-Jun-2007: Harare - Dozens of women protesters arrested in southern Zimbabwe this week have been released without charge, rights group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) said on Tuesday. Around 150 WOZA membe...
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'It will be war'
15-Jun-2007: A huge number public service strikers would march to parliament on Wednesday, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said. Western Cape Cosatu secretary Tony Ehren...
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Durban strikers number 10 000
15-Jun-2007: More than 10 000 striking public sector workers were marching through central Durban on Wednesday afternoon amidst a heavy police presence. A group of about 5 000 assembled at Durban's Curries ...
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Strike: Army out in force
15-Jun-2007: The army deployed "large numbers" of troops countrywide to support police on Wednesday morning as other workers came out in sympathy with the public service strike. The promised mass action wen...
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Aid agencies fear doomsday scenario in Zim
15-Jun-2007: Harare - If the worst happens, private consultants in Zimbabwe say, aid groups should brace for shops and businesses to close and for Zimbabwe to declare a state of emergency...
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MDC questions Zim constitution change
15-Jun-2007: Harare - The Zimbabwe government's plan to change the constitution ahead of 2008 elections undermines efforts to broker an end to political turmoil in the African nation, the country's main opposition...
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'How my friend died in my arms'
15-Jun-2007: "He died in my arms." These were the first words a visibly traumatised Caswell Nzimanzi uttered after co-worker and friend James Masha was crushed to death at a Centurion con...
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Government, unions at odds over turnout
15-Jun-2007: Countrywide pay protests by public servants ended peacefully on Wednesday with sharply conflicting claims on the turnout. One union said 600 000 workers took part in countrywide marches, while ...
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Karvelas: Tears flow, loathing soars
15-Jun-2007: By Anna Louw As many wept for school principal Nick Karvelas, gunned down outside his home on Tuesday, a local ANC councillor made an extraordinary attack. Neil Diamond, who was bei...
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SA: Take a prisoner to work - Nicro
15-Jun-2007: By Janine Stephen A radical plan that could see businesses being set up in prisons and prisoners being paid wages was put to the national assembly's correctional services committee on Tuesday. ...
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Mbeki speaks out about Zimbabwe rivals
15-Jun-2007: South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday he had been encouraged by the attitude of Zimbabwe's government and opposition since being tasked to mediate an end to their bitter feud. "We...
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Durban: Bobbies on the beat plan
15-Jun-2007: Durban is to get Bobbies on the beat in some areas of the city, KwaZulu-Natal Minister of Transport Community Safety and Liaison Bheki Cele said on Tuesday. This visible policing by officers p...
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Mbeki to mediate Zanu-PF, MDC talks
15-Jun-2007: By Peta Thornycroft Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party is due to sit down for talks with the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in Pretoria, South Afric...
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Karvelas 'p***** off the cops'
15-Jun-2007: By Anna Louw Human rights activist and principal Nick Karvelas, who was gunned down in front of his Alberton home, feared for his life after his run-in with three "br...
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Karvelas may have been executed
15-Jun-2007: By Anna Louw Human rights activist and school principal Nick Karvelas, who was shot at close range by gunmen in what was reported to be a robbery, could have been exec...
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My Fears for Kevin Woods' life...
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Johannesburg: Black Wednesday: D-Day - Tales of Cowardice from my Work!
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[Humor] USA: School - 1976 Vs 2006
14-Jun-2007: SCHOOL 1976 vs 2006 Scenario: Mark and Johnny get into a fistfight after school. 1976 - Crowd gathers. Johnny wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends....
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[Afrikaans] Another Suidlander/Uhuru Hoax panic in the making?
14-Jun-2007: Die SAP en Metro Polisie het streng vertroulike inliging gekry dat daar beplan word om Saterdag alle karre op al die hoofweÎ in Gauteng met klippe te gooi en ook op hulle te skiet. Alle verskeersm...
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SA: Race War: Whites Fighting back - its Genocidal & hopeless...
14-Jun-2007: Hendrik's comments are on the article below:- SA: The 57+ Afrikaner/Boer Organisations - Despondency over Unity We have had q...
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Suspect in fake-cheques scam appears in court
14-Jun-2007: By Mzolisi Witbooi A foreign man accused of milking American Express of R200 000 using counterfeit traveller's cheques has been denied bail in the Wynberg magistrate's...
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Protesters 'not alone'
14-Jun-2007: Police and prisons staff were with strikers "in spirit", the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union national congress was told in Cape Town on Wednesday. One of the union's deputy presidents, Ru...
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Murder case delayed by missing interpreter
14-Jun-2007: By Irene Kuppan The trial of two men accused of murdering 19-year-old Tremaine Dedekind at the skate park on Durban's North Beach two years ago had to be adjourned on Tuesday because there was ...
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Woman wounded after interrupting burglary
14-Jun-2007: A woman was shot and injured in an attack at her home in Laezonia north of Johannesburg on Tuesday night, said her father. Gawie Joubert said his daughter, Huibrecht Joubert, 38, arrived at her...
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Men make grisly find on banks of river
14-Jun-2007: Two Pretoria men collecting water for a traditional ceremony from a river outside the city made a grisly discovery - skeletal remains hidden under rocks in a shallow grave. ...
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Thirteen arrested in two provinces for fraud
14-Jun-2007: Thirteen people, including a South African Revenue Service (Sars), employee have been arrested on Wednesday in connection with fraud and money laundering, Sars says in a stat...
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Guards injured during heist in Joburg
14-Jun-2007: Two security guards were injured when robbers rammed a BMW into a cash van at City Deep in Johannesburg on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Superintendent Thembi Nywashu said guards had just c...
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Man killed after cop's house is set alight
14-Jun-2007: One man was killed when a shot was fired during a protest at a township in Wolmaransstad in North West on Wednesday, police said. Superintendent Louis Jacobs said the incident occurred when pro...
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Pretoria bank robbed
14-Jun-2007: Six armed men made off with an undisclosed amount of cash after they held up staff at a Pretoria bank on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramaloko said the gang entered the First N...
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Cost of living soars in Zimbabwe
14-Jun-2007: The cost of living for an average urban family in Zimbabwe rose by 66 percent last month, the country's consumer watchdog said in its latest report on Wednesday. The Consumer Council of Zimbabw...
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Cops to monitor Polokwane protests
14-Jun-2007: A strong police contingency will monitor a public servants march in Polokwane in Limpopo, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Superintended Mohale Ramatseba said police would also mon...
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Micah: 'Fractures tell tale of abuse'
14-Jun-2007: Baby Micah Bramely Patterson suffered extreme neglect before he died. He was underweight, his teeth had cavities and fractures on his skull were evidence of the extreme force...
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No more power for Zim, says DRC
14-Jun-2007: Harare - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) severed power supplies to Zimbabwe over an unpaid debt of $5-million (about R36-million), it emerged on Tuesday. Zimbabwe, which is already exper...
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Interior designer brutally killed
14-Jun-2007: The body of a Camps Bay woman has been discovered in a yard in Maitland - four days after she was last seen dropping her daughter off at a prestigious girls' school in Cape Town. Interior decor...
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Arrests made for possession of ATM explosives
14-Jun-2007: Eight people were arrested for having explosives used to bomb ATMs, Ekhuruleni police said on Wednesday. Spokesperson, Inspector Mveli Nhalpo said police raided a house in Rabie Ridge after rec...
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June 16 'attack' email a hoax: police
14-Jun-2007: Police have rejected as a hoax an email that warns people against "stonings and shootings" on Gauteng highways on Saturday. National spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said on Wednesday the em...
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White wants Boks to maintain momentum
14-Jun-2007: Springbok coach Jake White is looking forward to seeing how his charges match up when they face Australia's strongest team of the 2007 season in a Vodacom Tri-Nations Test at...
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Masetlha's lawyers a 'security risk'
14-Jun-2007: A request by axed National Intelligence Agency (NIA) boss Billy Masetlha to have his lawyers present during interviews with a task team set up by Intelligence Inspector-General Zolile Ngcakani was tur...
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'They shot my son in front of me'
14-Jun-2007: By Leila Samodien "I begged the police not to shoot my son, but they killed him right in front of me," Mzimni Kula said over and over again. His eldest child, 26-year-old David Kula, was...
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Phishers are still out there
14-Jun-2007: The fraudsters are still phishing in SA "waters", but often their catches slip away from them. Last week I heard from two Standard Bank customers who'd had fairly large sums of money "mysteriou...
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'Black diamonds' drive economy
14-Jun-2007: South Africa's big-spending burgeoning black middle class is a primary driver of economic growth and is expected to contribute more than R180-billion to the country's R640-billion consumer spending th...
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Man says 'police' beat him
14-Jun-2007: By Irene Kuppan An Amanzimtoti man believes that someone paid two off-duty police officers to kidnap, rob and assault him. Police say he was probably the target of criminals who posed as...
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Zim police release female protesters
14-Jun-2007: Harare - Dozens of women protesters arrested in southern Zimbabwe this week have been released without charge, rights group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) said on Tuesday. Around 150 WOZA membe...
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'It will be war'
14-Jun-2007: A huge number public service strikers would march to parliament on Wednesday, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said. Western Cape Cosatu secretary Tony Ehren...
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Durban strikers number 10 000
14-Jun-2007: More than 10 000 striking public sector workers were marching through central Durban on Wednesday afternoon amidst a heavy police presence. A group of about 5 000 assembled at Durban's Curries ...
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Strike: Army out in force
14-Jun-2007: The army deployed "large numbers" of troops countrywide to support police on Wednesday morning as other workers came out in sympathy with the public service strike. The promised mass action wen...
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Aid agencies fear doomsday scenario in Zim
14-Jun-2007: Harare - If the worst happens, private consultants in Zimbabwe say, aid groups should brace for shops and businesses to close and for Zimbabwe to declare a state of emergency...
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MDC questions Zim constitution change
14-Jun-2007: Harare - The Zimbabwe government's plan to change the constitution ahead of 2008 elections undermines efforts to broker an end to political turmoil in the African nation, the country's main opposition...
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'How my friend died in my arms'
14-Jun-2007: "He died in my arms." These were the first words a visibly traumatised Caswell Nzimanzi uttered after co-worker and friend James Masha was crushed to death at a Centurion con...
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Government, unions at odds over turnout
14-Jun-2007: Countrywide pay protests by public servants ended peacefully on Wednesday with sharply conflicting claims on the turnout. One union said 600 000 workers took part in countrywide marches, while ...
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Karvelas: Tears flow, loathing soars
14-Jun-2007: By Anna Louw As many wept for school principal Nick Karvelas, gunned down outside his home on Tuesday, a local ANC councillor made an extraordinary attack. Neil Diamond, who was bei...
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SA: Take a prisoner to work - Nicro
14-Jun-2007: By Janine Stephen A radical plan that could see businesses being set up in prisons and prisoners being paid wages was put to the national assembly's correctional services committee on Tuesday. ...
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Mbeki speaks out about Zimbabwe rivals
14-Jun-2007: South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday he had been encouraged by the attitude of Zimbabwe's government and opposition since being tasked to mediate an end to their bitter feud. "We...
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Durban: Bobbies on the beat plan
14-Jun-2007: Durban is to get Bobbies on the beat in some areas of the city, KwaZulu-Natal Minister of Transport Community Safety and Liaison Bheki Cele said on Tuesday. This visible policing by officers p...
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Mbeki to mediate Zanu-PF, MDC talks
14-Jun-2007: By Peta Thornycroft Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party is due to sit down for talks with the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in Pretoria, South Afric...
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Karvelas 'p***** off the cops'
14-Jun-2007: By Anna Louw Human rights activist and principal Nick Karvelas, who was gunned down in front of his Alberton home, feared for his life after his run-in with three "br...
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Karvelas may have been executed
14-Jun-2007: By Anna Louw Human rights activist and school principal Nick Karvelas, who was shot at close range by gunmen in what was reported to be a robbery, could have been exec...
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AfricanCrisis Website updating problems...
13-Jun-2007: (Folks, A quick note. You may have seen that today the website was updated somewhat later than usual. I am experiencing some intermittent problems on BOTH my website - the old .ORG one and the new .C...
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SA: Johannesburg: Black Wednesday - D-Day... I was there...
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Blood Diamond: Leonardo DiCaprio: Africa is another world...
13-Jun-2007: EXCELLENT MOVIE: Blood Diamond - How Leonardo DiCaprio learned a Rhodesian accent ...
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[12 Pics] SA: TvNews: The Massive Public/Civil Servants strike...
13-Jun-2007: Today has been dubbed "Black Wednesday" by THE SOWETAN newspaper. Their headline for today is: D-Day - Unions go for the Juguluar. Boy wouldn't it be nice to be going for THEIR JUGULAR? A handful o...
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[7 Pics] SA: The Train was late... so they attacked it...
13-Jun-2007: The train was running late... (anything running late in this country shouldn't surprise you)... so when the train arrived... they stoned it! I've mentioned poor Metro-Rail losing train after train ...
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[6 Pics] S.Africa: You're not kicking Whites out of Rugby FAST ENOUGH!!
13-Jun-2007: The organisation which controls S.African rugby was hauled before parliament for a tongue-lashing by the ANC's black racists. First they presented the Blue Bulls trophy to these parliamentary loser...
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[Map] Apartheid History: The Black Homelands
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[Pic] Humor: Cute kiddie...
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[Pic] Humour: Love, South African Style... be my Chick...
13-Jun-2007: Now this is true South African humour. In Afrikaans the word "tjerrie" (pronounced: "Cherry") means "chick" (i.e. Girl). So this says: "Be my girl!" Very cute. I have a bunch more of these South Afric...
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[2 Pics] My Photos: Small Strike, before Black Wednesday, Mega-Strike...
13-Jun-2007: I came to work early today to avoid today's big strike. The Sowetan ran a headline (which I will scan later). It reads: "Black Wednesday, D-Day - Unions go for the Jugular". So I'm in central Johan...
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S Africa: Stripped pageant winner 'won't give up crown'
13-Jun-2007: A beauty pageant held to raise funds for a Durban children's home has been mired in controversy after the queen, Yolanda Mabanga, 17, was stripped of her title on Monday after an error was found on th...
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S Africa: Strike: How Joburg could be disrupted
13-Jun-2007: The City of Johannesburg would not say how a sympathy strike by the South African Municipal Workers' Union would affect residents, if it goes ahead. The issue of the strike was expected to be hear...
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S Africa: Tutu thanks cops
13-Jun-2007: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has expressed his gratitude to the South African Police Service for swiftly recovering items stolen from his home including his Nobel Peace Prize. "Archbishop Tutu ...
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S Africa: (Live) Zebra crossing ahead
13-Jun-2007: Bloemfontein - A zebra that escaped from a game farm near Langenhoven Park in Bloemfontein had the traffic on the N1 grind to a halt when he decided to use the freeway for his Sunday afternoon jog. ...
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Iranian State Television Promotes Chomsky
13-Jun-2007: What sort of traitor the likes of Noam Chomsky really is. I should also tell you that Chomsky is very much involved with foundations linked back to the Council on Foreign Relations. Chomsky is suppo...
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S Africa: Drive, robbers tell Jhb man
13-Jun-2007: Johannesburg - "A minute to pray. A second to die." Quoting from the band The Flesh Eaters, Isaac Nkoana, 45, from Rhodesfield in Kempton Park, described the experience of being overpowered by two...
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S Africa: New pay-TV players submit plans
13-Jun-2007: Johannesburg - Using power lines to transmit programmes, a TV-network for prisoners and being able to order a movie and pizza via one's TV service provider are amongst some of the plans submitted by p...
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S Africa: Former gynae to spend time behind bars
13-Jun-2007: Two High Court judges sitting in Pietermaritzburg have ruled that former Durban gynaecologist Lloyd Damian Daniels must serve a term of imprisonment for indecently assaulting a young pregnant patient ...
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S Africa: Protests against removal in Soshanguve
13-Jun-2007: June 11 2007 at 07:04PM About 400 people blockaded roads and threw stones at passing cars in an attempt to stop removals of their shacks in Soshanguve on Monday, Pretoria police said. Inspect...
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Colin Powell Promotes Closure of GITMO...
13-Jun-2007: ...and that's not all Powell is promoting, but he is aligning himself with the socialist Barack Obama, and is also demanding that the U.S. should talk to Iran and Syria:From MH in the US Powell: U....
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Stungrenade, rifle shots ends hostage drama
13-Jun-2007: Stungrenade, shots ends hostage drama Beeld,Jun 11 2007 01:22:25:900PM - (SA) See video of hostage drama http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Video/0,,3-2082_2128080,00.html The drama ended Satur...
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Heavy rains set off flooding in southern China
13-Jun-2007: By Jim Yardley Published: June 11, 2007 BEIJING: Torrential rains in southern China have unleashed surging floodwaters that have swept through small cities and farming villages, claiming at least 6...
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Russia Planting to Build Nuke Plant for Belarus
13-Jun-2007: Looks like Vladimir Putin is aiding his fellow totalitarian buddy controlling Belarus: MH Belarus Signs Pact For Nuclear Equipment By Staff Jun 11, 2007 Russia's Eximbank is ready to offer $2 ...
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Marxist Bono Heads Mainstream in U.S.
13-Jun-2007: Boy do I hate this character Bono and his U2. I bet the likes of Robert Mugabe and his pro-Soviet/Marxist friends in Africa are sleeping easy at night knowing they have somoene like Bono lecturing th...
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S Africa: 6,000 need flood relief in CT
13-Jun-2007: 11/06/2007 20:11 - (SA) Heavy rains cause chaos Cape Town - More than 6 000 people require disaster relief after week-long heavy rain and flooding in Cape Town, the city said on Monday. ...
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Uganda: Mugabe not welcome for the Commonwealth
13-Jun-2007: The Monitor 12 June 2007 Richard Wanambwa Kampala ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe is not welcome at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala. "We do not expect ...
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MDC Infighting Helping Mugabe
13-Jun-2007: I am certainly betting Robert Mugabe's buddies in the Kremlin and Beijing are telling him to go through with the deception on taking control of Zimbabwe's opposition as how Anatoliy Golitsyn warned ho...
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ANC protests Israeli occupation
13-Jun-2007: (What is this blockade that the ANC is up in arms about? Is it the refusal of the civilized countries of the world to support terrorists? Also, the ancient "Palestinians" (the vast majority of whom ...
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Study says death penalty deters crime
13-Jun-2007: Studies say death penalty deters crime By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer (If only our crime-loving government will come to their senses and realize that the death penalty is the only way t...
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S Africa: Car thief opens fire on paramedics
13-Jun-2007: A car thief started shooting at Johannesburg paramedics in Quellerina on Sunday night while trying to escape after a crash. "It's every day we respond to shootings, but not every day we get shot at...
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S Africa: Man shoots burglar
13-Jun-2007: A Polokwane resident allegedly shot and killed a burglar early on Sunday morning, Limpopo police said. Police spokesperson Superintendent Mhale Rametseba said two men allegedly broke into a house i...
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S Africa: Robber uses spit to get ring
13-Jun-2007: Pretoria - While the owner of a smallholding in Strydfontein, north of Pretoria, lay dying of his wounds, an armed robber spat on his wife's finger so that he could force off her wedding ring. Deo...
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Wesley Snipes plays race card
13-Jun-2007: Ocala - Actor Wesley Snipes is a victim of "unscrupulous tax advice" and is being selectively targeted for prosecution on federal tax evasion charges because he is black, his attorneys argue in a moti...
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S.Africa: Johannesburg CBD - Massive Strike information....
12-Jun-2007: STRIKE ACTION INFORMATION Information obtained from JMPD and SAPS Riot Control Unit Dieplkloof o ± 20 000 Government employees and supporting unions o All government department are c...
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[19 Pics] Important: African Animal Posters for Sale by Kevin Woods
12-Jun-2007: Folks, this is really important and I want to ask folks to support Kevin Woods. He was jailed by Mugabe for 20 years in the horrific Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. While there, his only outlet was...
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[Humor] [Pic] S.Africa: The New SARS (IRS) Form...
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[Pic] A Massive, private R50 million Anti-Crime Campaign...
12-Jun-2007: (Photo) Click here for the new CrimeLine website Dear all, Primedia launched its anti-crime campaign at a very s...
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Confirmed: The Zimbabwe Govt in Exile Website is a Mugabe/CIO Front
12-Jun-2007: Robb Ellis (Of TheBeardedman Blogspot) wrote:- It has been brought to my attention that the "Zimbabwe Government in Exile" that wrote a letter to Mugabe demanding that he leave office, is in a...
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[Humour] Today is Africa Day...
12-Jun-2007: Today is "Africa Day". Please show your solidarity and contribute by making a complete f*ckup of something extremely simple! ...
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Young American says: White people don't have backbones!
12-Jun-2007: Jan, I'm a 23yo American male who reads your website every day! I stumbled upon it when I was doing some research on Farm murders that my friend in South Africa notified me about. A lot of what you ...
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Blacks like Dry Sex - Does it make AIDS worse?
12-Jun-2007: I stumbled upon somthing which is very strange but could possibly explain some of the very squewed aids statistics. Blacks prefer 'dry sex'. I am unable to explain all the reasons but google 'dry sex ...
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EXCELLENT New Book on South African Border War
12-Jun-2007: Hi JoAnn Please forward this message to Jan. Hi Jan I found this new book on the South African Border War. It is available at Exclusive Books in most shopping malls or one can order from the auth...
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Website: South Africans in Canada
12-Jun-2007: Here's another site Jan could add: Click here for the South Africans in Canada website...
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Russian Satire about Cyber Wars and Iraq War
12-Jun-2007: A bit of humor from American ex-pats living in Moscow about Russian-Estonian cyber wars: http://www.exile.ru/2007-June-01/editorial.html and about Iraq problem: http://www.exile.ru/2007-May...
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Zimbabwe Government In EXile - Website - A CIO False Flag op?
12-Jun-2007: I have tried to be patriotic to support a A black governmemt But i concluded that we have no order. I have decided to support the Zim Governmemt which was lauched last month. speak to them they are lo...
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SA: Bafana Bafana star could face criminal charges
12-Jun-2007: By Proffesor Ndawonde The Directorate of Public Prosecutions is considering whether to charge Bafana Bafana star Sibusiso Zuma after an altercation and allegations...
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SA: Health workers to be axed
12-Jun-2007: By Dianne Hawker, Andisiwe Makinana and Leila Samodien, Staff Reporters The Western Cape Health Department has sent letters dismissing 75 hospital workers who went on strike illegally, some of ...
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SA: Strike casualty: Mom battles as baby dies inside her
12-Jun-2007: A KwaZulu-Natal domestic worker who called an emergency number in a bid to save her pregnant daughter's life was told "there were no workers and there was nobody at the hospitals". The 12-hour ...
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SA: Attack on Bus company - assasinations
12-Jun-2007: A bus driver was shot and injured when three buses belonging to the same bus company came under gunfire early on Monday morning on their way to fetch passengers near Pietermaritzburg. Police sp...
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Zim police arrest demonstrating female activists
12-Jun-2007: Harare - Zimbabwean police on Monday arrested dozens of women as they staged a demonstration in southwest Zimbabwe, a statement said. The women, all members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) ha...
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Important: SA: Tokyo says Machine Gun is not only Zuma's!
12-Jun-2007: Gauteng tycoon and ANC presidential contender Tokyo Sexwale has angered supporters of the party's Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, by suggesting that Zuma's trademark song -...
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S.African Govt spends R269 million on Private Security!
12-Jun-2007: The state spent about R269,5-million on private security companies last year - up R188,5-billion (78.5 percent) from R151-million in 2005. According to ministerial replies to a number of qu...
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Community wants killings to stop
12-Jun-2007: By Barry Bateman The Eersterus community has called for an end to the "vicious cycle" of violence that is killing and maiming its youths. Scores of people attended Saturday's funeral for...
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SA: Hospital Patients dying fast due to Strike
12-Jun-2007: Patients are dying at an unprecedented rate, according to stressed ambulance crews who have provided a glimpse of what it's like working at the coalface of a strike that has ...
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Mugabe's next Communist Grab of FOREIGN FIRMS!
12-Jun-2007: A drastic new law compelling foreign firms operating across all sectors in Zimbabwe to sell half their shareholdings to Zimbabweans or risk losing their licences and registrations was being finali...
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SA: Man arrested after SMS tip-off
12-Jun-2007: A man suspected of armed robbery was arrested after police were tipped off by a cellphone SMS, police said on Monday. "The SA Police Service is delighted that only hours after the launch of...
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SA: Female cops get light bullet-proof vests
12-Jun-2007: By Norman Joseph Western Cape policewomen will be better equipped to deal with threats to life with the introduction of a new bullet-proof vest especially designed for...
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SA: Rugby: White gets Mbeki meeting
12-Jun-2007: Springbok coach Jake White has requested an urgent meeting with President Thabo Mbeki over political intervention in rugby. Presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga confirmed on Monday that...
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SA: Restaurant closed after weekend hostage saga
12-Jun-2007: The city restaurant which was the site of a hostage drama at the weekend will remain closed. Owner Colin Nyoni, of Nyoni's Kraal restaurant in Long Street, said on Sunday insurance assessors ha...
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SA: Man bleeds to death after argument with cop
12-Jun-2007: AN Umlazi family is outraged at their local police and have accused them of allowing their brother to die. This comes after Bheki Xulu, 32, was shot by a police offic...
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SA: Cosatu warns of strike violence
12-Jun-2007: The public sector strike could soon "turn violent", Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) general-secretary Zwelenzima Vavi warned on Monday. Click here to read the rest.

SA: New Crime Trend: Robbers targeting small stores
12-Jun-2007: By Sharlene Packree Tighter security at banks and malls has made restaurants, smaller stores and households mouth-watering targets for opportunistic criminals. ...
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USA: Scientific Studies: Death Penalty Deters crime and Saves Lives
11-Jun-2007: Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outri...
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[Cartoon] Frik & Melanie go on a date...
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[Cartoon] You're Hired...
11-Jun-2007: (This Zapiro cartoon is based on the recent suggestion that Tokyo Sexwale of the ANC be the next president. He is one of these ANC types who "went into business" and "became a capitalist" because of h...
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SA: The 57+ Afrikaner/Boer Organisations - Despondency over Unity
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[Afrikaans] Afrikaner/Boer Virtual Country: Bravoland
11-Jun-2007: Bravoland - ons eie gebied, waar ons selfregerend is, ons eie wette maak, en met trots ons eie vlag kan hys! Die ontstaan van Bravoland was eenvoudig ñ dit was ën ëspontane ontploffing...
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A Zimbabwean, Zulu, White Future Alliance against ANC & Mugabe
11-Jun-2007: Here is the full discussion:- Zim police arrest 2 000 at border ...
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S Africa: Eleven injured in taxi crash
11-Jun-2007: Eleven people were hurt - two of them critically - when a taxi crashed into a wall in front of the Lion Match factory in Durban's Umgeni road on Saturday, Netcare 911's Chris Botha said. The two ha...
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Zim: Health sector operating in a 'War Zone'
11-Jun-2007: Zimbabwe: Health Sector Operating in a 'War Zone' Environment 8 June 2007 Harare Industrial action for better wages at Zimbabwe's major hospitals, coupled with economic recession and hyperinfla...
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AIDS in Africa - Der Spiegel on-line, 6-10-2007
11-Jun-2007: EPIDEMIC OF IGNORANCE The Difficult Struggle Against AIDS in Africa By Marco Evers From our friend, Pierre in France. Millions in Sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the HIV virus which caus...
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rugby
11-Jun-2007: I have been waiting for something like this to happen to SA rugby and now rugby in SA will be destroyed. Winds of change to sweep SA rugby. From Adrianus Johannesburg, South Africa 09 June ...
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Angola Aligns Itself With North Korea
11-Jun-2007: Here's something of no major surprise of how Angola is aligning itself with North Korea: MH Angola, North Korea Reinforce Co-operation on Defence Luanda, 06/10 ñ The Angolan National Defence min...
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Commie Ortega in Iran
11-Jun-2007: Here's Commie Ortega greeting his Islamo-Nazi friends in Iran: MH President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Nicaraguan and President Daniel Ortega held first round of talks in Tehran on Sunday. The two ...
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Ending poverty key objective for new ANC leader
11-Jun-2007: LMAO! How the hell do they think that they are going to deal with poverty and unemployment? By stealing more white farms? Submitted by Hail Columbia in the US The ANC says the choice of their fut...
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British work permit more difficult
11-Jun-2007: British work permit more difficult PEET VAN AARDT The British High Commission is making it even more difficult for young South Africans to find jobs in England. Applicants who want to obtain a...
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Prestina Latina Praising Terrorist Insurgents
11-Jun-2007: Here's the Communist Cuban organ-Prestina Latina praising the terrorist insurgency of Iraq when they label it "resistance": From MH Resistance Continues Targeting US Forces in Iraq Baghdad, Jun ...
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Chief of IRA, Gerry Adams Rushes to Defend ETA
11-Jun-2007: Here's the Marxist and arch-terror chief of the Irish Republican Army rushing to defend his comrades in ETA: From MH Gerry Adams urges to "redouble" efforts to save peace process "All sides shou...
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Russia: Commie Chavez Praised by Russian Commies
11-Jun-2007: Here's something very unreal of Russian Communists praising Commie Chavez: MH in the US MOSCOW, June 8 - Russian Communist lawmakers suggested Friday that Venezuela's left-wing president speak in R...
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Namibia: Drought hits Kunene
11-Jun-2007: New Era (Windhoek) 8 June 2007 Wezi Tjaronda Windhoek Worsening drought in the Kunene Region has forced some farmers to drive out thousands of their cattle to other regions in search of grazin...
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Bono Wants More Aid to Africa, Attacks G-8
11-Jun-2007: Looks like the Marxist Bono wants more aid to Africa and is attacking the G-8 for not bringing enough aid. Most of these African nations are under control of Soviet-Russian-backed/Marxist regimes, an...
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S Africa: Priceless Boer- and Great Trek heirlooms looted
11-Jun-2007: Priceless Boer-heirlooms looted with ANC-gun-control laws: June 9 2007 -- Radio Pretoria interviewed a gun expert today who reports that the demands under the anti-crime gun-control laws are breaki...
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U.S. Gives Mugabe 18 Million Dollars to Fight AIDS
11-Jun-2007: Somehow, I am not particularly buying this from Mugabe. I'm probably sure he's using this to his advantage to gain more cash from the West, at the same time, he attacks the West on "Western imperiali...
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"Work" in Emirates was in brothel
11-Jun-2007: ìWorkî in Emirates was in brothel. Jun 08 2007 10:33:01:860PM (SA) Nicolize van der Walt Klerksdorp. ñ The Police in Northwest are investigating several complaints against a recruiting agenc...
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Fatah/PLO-Iran Connection
11-Jun-2007: Here's something about the Fatah/PLO-Iran connection. I personally think that the PLO is quite behind funding the terror insurgencies in Iraq and in Afghansitan. After all, reports have surfaced of ...
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SA: Woman to sue cops for miscarriage
11-Jun-2007: First she was pulled off the road by four Metro Police officers and handcuffed in front of her toddlers. Two weeks later she miscarried. Now she is being threatened with dismissal from her job with th...
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USA: Six shot dead in Wisconsin
11-Jun-2007: Chicago - US authorities were investigating a shooting in a small Midwestern town on Sunday that left six people dead and a child in apparently critical condition, officials said. Police respon...
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SA: Strike: Civil Servants lose R1 billion
11-Jun-2007: Civil servants have lost more than R1-billion in salaries since the public service strike started on June 1, with teachers the biggest losers as South Africa counts the cost of the standoff between th...
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FANTASTIc: SA: Burglar shot dead
11-Jun-2007: A Polokwane resident allegedly shot and killed a burglar early on Sunday morning, Limpopo police said. Police spokesperson Superintendent Mhale Rametseba said the burglar, who was accompani...
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SA: Teenager hijacked, made to strip down...
11-Jun-2007: By Karishma Ganpath An Austerville teenager is recovering at home after being hijacked at gunpoint, made to strip down to her underwear and then abandoned at a cemeter...
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SA: Car thief opens fire on paramedics
11-Jun-2007: A car thief started shooting at Johannesburg paramedics in Quellerina on Sunday night while trying to escape after a crash. "It's every day we respond to shootings, bu...
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SA: Burnt body of young woman found
11-Jun-2007: By NIYANTA SINGH and SHAN PILLAY The gruesome discovery of the burnt body of a young woman on the banks of the Dorpspruit, adjacent to the N3 Liberty Midlands Mall off-ramp, has heightened the ...
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SA: Shot at point blank yet still alive...
11-Jun-2007: By Chris Makhaye Not many people shot point blank in the head live to tell the tale. But the family of Cyprian Mncwabe are thanking their ancestors for sparing his life, enabling him to see his...
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American couple want to adopt S.African baby...
11-Jun-2007: Baby Ruth is only two years old, but her future could determine if and how South Africa's abandoned children will find homes with foreign and expatriate South African familie...
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SA: Durban: Email sparks mass anti-crime march
11-Jun-2007: By Annie Dorasamy An email sent by one woman just over a week ago drew more than 2000 people dressed in black to an anti-crime demonstration at the Berea Park, Durban, on Saturday. ...
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SA: Zuma supporters Reject Mbeki's Third Term
11-Jun-2007: Jacob Zuma's KwaZulu-Natal supporters mustered a major show of force as they swelled the ranks of the ANC's provincial policy conference in Durban at the weekend, with some openly pushing for a co...
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Zim: MDC in-fighting will help Mugabe
11-Jun-2007: By Peta Thornycroft Zimbabwe's split Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has been unable to unite its two factions in an election coalition. This will probably hand 2008's presidential and par...
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Police probe hostage drama
11-Jun-2007: Police were investigating a hostage incident in central Cape Town which left the alleged hostage taker dead and three others injured, they said on Sunday. Inspector Bernadine Steyn said several...
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WWIII: UsA: Putin's missile posturing 'not serious'
11-Jun-2007: By Kim Sengupta President Vladimir Putin's threat to once again target western Europe with Russian missiles brought back the spectre of the worst days of the Cold War and the start of a new arm...
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[Video] S.Africa: Sniper ends Long St siege
11-Jun-2007: By Helen Bamford & Melanie Peters A siege that paralysed the heart of the city centre for most of Saturday ended when a police sniper killed a man who had taken his wife and another woman hosta...
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SA: The Police may go on strike...
11-Jun-2007: By Fred Kockott Leaders of the 100 000-strong Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) say they are considering calls from its members to embark on an illegal countrywide strike in...
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IMPORTANT: SA: Hoax Mails: Big guns called to Masetlha trial
11-Jun-2007: Billy Masetlha, the former chief of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), has subpoenaed Ronnie Kasrils, the minister for intelligence services, and Kgalema Motlanthe, the secretary-general of t...
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Zim: SA: Mugabe trashes Mbeki's mediation plans
11-Jun-2007: In spite of President Thabo Mbeki's continuing mediation efforts, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has gazetted major constitutional amendments aimed at securing his party an easy victory in 200...
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