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| [Premium Times]The Chairman of the United Nations High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, Thabo Mbeki, has said that the continent loses, at least, $50 billion annually through illicit fund flows. |
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| [SA Info]With South Africa confirmed as a key partner, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced October 2015 as the launch date for construction of the first phase of what could eventually be the largest hydroelectric plant in the world. |
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| [Daily Trust]Former South African President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday that Africans can solve the numerous problems affecting the continent without giving room for external interference which usually comes with interests. |
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| [SA Info]South Africa's Professor Jonathan Jansen will receive the Education Africa Lifetime Achievement Award for Africa at a gala ceremony in New York on 3 June, it was announced at the weekend. |
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| [SA Info]South Africa and Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday that will enable filmmakers from the two countries to work together in telling the continent's stories. |
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| [SW Radio]The mobile voter registration exercise ended Sunday amid an outcry from all corners of the country that the exercise was poorly conducted and dismally failed to meet demand. |
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| [SAIRR]In a speech to the Education Colloquium of the Democratic Alliance caucus on 15 May 2013, Professor Hermann Giliomee, vice-president of the South African Institute of Race Relations, put forward some lessons to be learnt from history by opposition parties as they reposition themselves for the... |
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| [Swazi Media]Swaziland's Minister of Labour and Social Security Lutfo Dlamini gave away 450 food hampers to elderly people in his constituency. |
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| [SW Radio]A court application compelling President Robert Mugabe to announce the date for elections will be heard as an urgent matter in the Supreme Court this Thursday. |
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| [SACSIS]It is difficult to be positive about our educational system, supported by a government department that consumes more than a fifth of our total budget. Despite this we languish at the bottom of the international league in maths and science. School facilities are dismal. The educational system... |
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| [New Era]Windhoek -The Governor of the Bank of Namibia, Ipumbu Shiimi, says although the goal of Africa to share a common currency is sound - the basics such as road and other infrastructure need to be addressed first. |
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| [Namibian]THE prosecutor general has taken the first step towards getting property belonging to two former Namdeb employees who are suspected of having been involved in illegal diamond dealing forfeited to the State. |
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| [The Herald]Bulawayo Bureau -MDC-T will finally hold its primary elections on Saturday amid escalating internal disgruntlement with members accusing party bigwigs of trying to rig the outcome. The party's primaries, which were initially scheduled to take place at the beginning of the month, were pos... |
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| [The Herald]GOVERNMENT should mobilise funding for exploration to establish a database of the country's mineral reserves to avoid getting raw deals when negotiating with investors, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has said. |
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| [New Era]Windhoek -Namibian Police Inspector General Lieutenant-General Sebastian Ndeitunga yesterday met with New Era CEO, Dr Audrin Mathe, to enhance the relationship between the police and the newspaper. |
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| [New Era]Windhoek -Going into Public Private Partnership (PPP) with other companies could speed up the supply of serviced land in Windhoek, according to the City of Windhoek's Project Manager: Land Delivery, Steven Hochobeb. |
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| [SA Info]South Africa's premier surfing event, the ASP Mr Price Pro Ballito, which takes place from 1 to 7 July, has once again attracted a top-class field, with eight of the top 32 surfers in the world confirming their entries. A prize purse of R2.2-million is on offer. |
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| [Swazi Media]Swaziland's Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) says there are 600,000 people in the kingdom eligible to vote in this year's national election. |
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| [SA Info]The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has given state company Eskom a licence to go ahead with its Sere wind farm near Koekenaap in the Western Cape. |
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| [The Herald]MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has come under fire from media representative bodies for threatening to close media organisations that do not toe his party's line should he win the forthcoming harmonised elections. |
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| [Times of Zambia]TWO senior managers at Multi-Choice Zambia died on the spot on Sunday evening in Chisamba area on Great North Road while five other people sustained injuries. |
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| [GroundUp]Today GroundUp published a story, with the assistance of The Cape Times, of corruption at Lingelethu West Traffic Department in Khayelitsha. We tell how the buying of learner's and driver's licenses is commonplace and show that there is the perception, arguably a reasonable one in some are... |
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| [Times of Zambia]TWO of the three suspended judges Nigel Mutuna and Charles Kajimanga have again rushed back to court but this time around to challenge the constitutionality of the tribunal set up to probe their alleged professional misconduct. |
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| [Times of Zambia]PRESIDENT Michael Sata has directed Cabinet and deputy ministers to explain Government's resolve to remove subsidies on maize and fuel. |
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| [The Herald]THE Attorney General's Office is proofreading the draft Constitution following its smooth passage in Parliament last week. Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga last night said the deputy director responsible for drafting in the AG's Office was scrutinising the... |
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| [The Herald]ZIMBABWEAN human rights lawyer Ms Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda is one of the six women and the only African who has been accepted as a candidate for the post of director-general of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). |
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| [Zambia Reports]Defence lawyers in the tribunal investigating three judges will challenge some "outrageous" internal rules guiding the tribunal that seeks to insulate itself from legal challenges. |
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| [The Herald]Two MDC-T officials were recently found in possession of utility bills belonging to six people, one of them dead, which they intended to use as support of proof of residence for their supporters to register as voters. |
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| [The Herald]Mutare -THE trial of suspended Zanu-PF Manicaland chairman Mike Madiro and his deputy Dorothy Mabika, who face charges of stealing 10 head of cattle, resumed yesterday at the Mutare Magistrates' Courts with more State witnesses testifying. |
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| [SA Info]President Jacob Zuma has joined thousands of South Africans in mourning the sudden passing of radio and television journalist Vuyo Mbuli, who died in a Bloemfontein hospital on Saturday after collapsing while watching a rugby match at Free State Stadium. |
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