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Pretoria, South Africa Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Pretoria, South Africa.

Results 1 - 20 of 11,033 in Pretoria, South Africa

  1. 'Mugabe re-election is non-negatiable'Read the original story

    40 min ago | Independent Online

    Zimbabwe's ruling party has resolved that President Robert Mugabe's controversial re-election is a "non-negotiable" issue in ongoing talks with the opposition in South Africa, state media said on Friday.

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  2. 'Abuse must end for talks to be successful'Read the original story

    54 min ago | Independent Online

    By Robert Evans Geneva - Violence and human rights abuses must end in Zimbabwe if talks on a power-sharing pact between government and opposition are to have any chance of success, a coalition of world ...

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    Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe), Robert Mugabe, South Africa

  3. Zimbabwe ruling ZANU-PF: figure to lead unity govt must be MugabeRead the original story

    55 min ago | China Daily

    Zimbabwe ruling ZANU-PF has said figure to lead a unity government in the country must be President Robert Mugabe, state media the herald reported on Friday.

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  4. EU, South Africa Haggle Over Zimbabwe at First SummitRead the original story

    1 hr ago | Deutsche Welle

    South Africa and the European Union Friday, July 25 began their first ever summit in the French city of Bordeaux with Pretoria set to defend and jealously guard its mediating role in Zimbabwe.

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    Related Topix: Nicolas Sarkozy, Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, Gauteng, South Africa, World News, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe

  5. Evicted tenants still moving belongingsRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Sunday Times

    Scores of tenants who survived a fire which raged through a Pretoria block of flats on Tuesday were today still removing their belongings from the condemned building.

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  6. Zimbabweans start crisis talksRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | The Times

    Senior negotiators from Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC and the ruling Zanu-PF party began talks yesterday and a report indicated they were close to reaching a deal on forming a unity government.

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  7. 'SA's quiet diplomacy in Zim not right'Read the original story

    5 hrs ago | The Star

    Half of adults living in South Africa's metropolitan areas do not feel that "quiet diplomacy" was the correct way to handle the crisis in Zimbabwe, according to a survey released on Friday.

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  8. Ruling party says Mugabe must lead unity governmentRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | AlertNet

    Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's ruling party will not accept a power-sharing deal that fails to recognise his re-election or seeks to reverse his land reform programme, a state-owned newspaper said on ...

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  9. SA, EU summit opens in FranceRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | News24.com

    South Africa and the European Union on Friday began their first-ever summit in the French city of Bordeaux, with South Africa set to defend its role as mediator in the Zimbabwean political crisis.

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  10. Praise for MbekiRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | News24.com

    South Africa and the European Union on Friday wrapped up a landmark summit with Brussels solidly backing Pretoria's mediating role in Zimbabwe as the only way of ending ruinous political chaos.

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  11. Motata: Court rules on cellphone recordingsRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | Pretoria News

    Five cellphone recordings taken on the night of an alleged drunken driving accident involving Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata are admissible as evidence, the Johannesburg magistrate's court ruled on ...

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  12. Who said that?Read the original story

    6 hrs ago | Independent Online

    By Alex Eliseev ATM bombers have taken their hunt for cash to new levels, wounding three police officers and a security guard in one of the bloodiest weeks since the attacks began.

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  13. SA's GM spud awaits commercial approvalRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | Independent Online

    Africa's first locally developed genetically modified crop has finished its field trials and is now before an interdepartmental committee that will decide whether it can go on South African markets.

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  14. Zimbabwe crisis talks begin in South AfricaRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | The Namibian

    Talks began in earnest yesterday on resolving Zimbabwe's political crisis after President Robert Mugabe gave his senior lieutenants the final go-ahead to negotiate power-sharing with the opposition.

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  15. Head start for ZANU-PF in talksRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | Financial Gazette

    NEGOTIATIONS on a power-sharing arrangement to end Zimbabwe's eight-year old political crisis begin in South Africa today between President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change amid ...

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  16. ZANU-PF firms, scribes put on sanctionsRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | Financial Gazette

    THE European Union this week included two journalists from State-owned newspapers on its targeted sanctions list as it widened the restrictions to cover 37 more individuals and four companies.

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  17. ANC chief 'shocked' by white povertyRead the original story

    8 hrs ago | The Herald

    Poverty is one of the biggest challenges that faces the majority of South Africans and it does not discriminate along racial lines, ANC president Jacob Zuma said yesterday.

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  18. 3 ambassadors present credentials to PresidentRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | The Herald

    ... Lemine Selmane makes history by becoming Mauritania's first envoy to Zimbabwe. He would be based in Pretoria, South Africa. In an interview with journalists after presenting his credentials, Ambassador Selmane pledged to establish cordial relations ...

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  19. Zimbabwe talks focus on power sharing structureRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | The Independent

    Formal talks between Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change began in Pretoria yesterday, and were expected to focus on the structure of a power-sharing government for Zimbabwe.

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  20. Stratton may get to speak in extradition caseRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | The Star

    South Africa's highest court has given alleged Fidentia mastermind Steven Goodwin the right to be heard in a landmark extradition case - but refused that same right to Brett Kebble's alleged murder mastermind.

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