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/ 31 December 2007

Zuma charges: State intends calling 218 witnesses

The state has identified a list of 218 witnesses it intends calling to testify in its case against African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma. Attached to the indictment, filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, the list of witnesses includes Independent Democrat party leader Patricia de Lille and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein.

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/ 31 December 2007

Mbeki: 2008 will bring new challenges

The year ahead will present South Africa with new tasks and challenges arising from decisions adopted at the recent national conference of the African National Congress, President Thabo Mbeki said in his New Year’s message on Monday. South Africans should respond to the challenges ”bearing in mind the national goal our country has set itself”.

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/ 31 December 2007

Zuma takes time out ahead of crunch meeting

As tensions between the camps of former African National Congress (ANC) president Thabo Mbeki and his successor, Jacob Zuma, reach boiling point over the decision to charge Zuma, the newly elected ANC president has retreated to his Nkandla homestead ahead of the party’s January national executive committee meeting.

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/ 31 December 2007

Report: Dispute over private-hospital fee hikes

The registrar of medical schemes, Patrick Masobe, has threatened to take private hospitals to the Competition Commission if they fail to justify their price increases planned for next year, Business Day reported on Monday. Private hospitals traditionally raise tariffs on January 1 after negotiations with medical schemes, whose members constitute the bulk of their patients.

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/ 31 December 2007

Zim extends deadline for old currency

Zimbabwe’s central bank chief announced on Monday that he was extending a deadline for consumers to exchange their Z 000 bills, just hours before they were to cease being legal tender. The legal status of the Z 000 bearer cheque notes is ”now reinstated”, Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono announced at a news conference.

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/ 31 December 2007

Sudan pardons opponents accused of plot ‘to sabotage’

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday pardoned 30 opposition members accused of plotting against the state and ordered their immediate release. ”I have decided to pardon the accused of their attempt at sabotage and I have ordered their immediate release,” Bashir told a large crowd gathered in Khartoum to mark the country’s 52nd anniversary of independence.