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<title>Govt to appeal high court finding on sexual offences </title>
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<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6222</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The government will urgently appeal a Western Cape High Court finding that 29 sexual offences are not punishable because the Sexual Offences Act does not specify penalties for them, The Cape Times reported on Friday (18/05/2012).]]></description>
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<title>Mom&amp;#8217;s R1m win in drugs cash probe</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6221</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A MOTHER&#8217;S windfall of more than R1-million at the Boardwalk Casino in Port Elizabeth has landed her in an international legal battle.]]></description>
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<title>Outrage at threat to gay rights</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6220</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[EASTERN Cape gay rights activists outraged by the call to have a clause protecting South Africans on the grounds of sexual orientation removed from the constitution will take to the streets this weekend in protest against the House of Traditional Leaders.]]></description>
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<title> Coega steel plant jobs boost for Bay </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6219</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IN one of the biggest jobs boosts for Nelson Mandela Bay in recent years, a partnership between Bay businessmen and an Indian steel company will see a R400-million Coega smelter create up to 800 jobs over five years.]]></description>
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<title>Moosagie guilty of tax fraud</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6218</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CONTROVERSIAL businessman Amier Moosagie sat emotionless when he was found guilty on a litany of charges involving fraud, forgery, corruption, money laundering and racketeering involving more than R3-million.]]></description>
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<title>Metro&amp;#8217;s cash reserves dangerously low</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6217</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality&#8217;s precarious financial position was highlighted yesterday when it was revealed the metro had just 20 days&#8217; cash reserves &#8211; well below its minimum 30-day target.]]></description>
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<title> Traffic collections R5.5m under budget</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6216</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is to probe the poor performance of the traffic and licensing department after a report to councillors revealed that collections for 2011/12 were more than R5.5-million under budget.]]></description>
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<title>'My terrible drug life'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6215</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I STARTED using drugs when I was in Std 2. I think I was about 11 at the time. My cousin and I were having a sleep-over at a friend&#8217;s house. By the time I was 14, I was hooked on tik.&#8221;
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<title>Govt must hire more black lawyers: Radebe</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6214</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE government wants black lawyers to get a bigger slice of the state&#8217;s multibillion-rand legal bill. Justice Minister Jeff Radebe will introduce a policy this year to force government departments and state-owned enterprises to ensure that black-owned legal firms benefit from the state&#8217;s legal bill.]]></description>
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<title>Varsity device a world first</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6213</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University has upped its competitive edge in scientific research with the acquisition of a R5.3-million spectrometer &#8211; a first of its kind in the world &#8211; that will speed up the university&#8217;s material analysis.
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<title> Fears of health system collapse</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6212</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Eastern Cape health system could be weeks from collapse because of &#8220;austerity measures&#8221; and under-budgeting.]]></description>
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<title>Nationalise without compensation banks, mines, telecoms, land, food chains...  cries Numsa</title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6210</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) wants the government to nationalise economic sectors including mines, banks, food chains and telecommunications, without compensation.
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<title>South Africans will have 'smart' ID cards by next elections </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6204</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is expected that smart ID cards will be in use by the next general elections, the home affairs department said on Thursday (17/05/2012).]]></description>
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<title>ANC 'sitting on ticking  time bomb' - Vavi</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6190</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi warned the ANC yesterday it was sitting on &#8220;a ticking time bomb that is starting to explode&#8221; and needed to get its house in order or face a revolt similar to the 1976 riots against Bantu education.]]></description>
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<title>Law bungle will see sex pests walk free</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6189</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[POLITICIANS and prosecutors are scrambling to fix a parliamentary bungle that could see thousands of sex offenders walk free.]]></description>
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<title>Deejays love PE parties</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6188</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PORT Elizabeth is proving to be the party destination of choice for 5FM deejays who voted six parties in Nelson Mandela Bay as among the top 15 they attended in their whirlwind 42-party marathon.]]></description>
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<title>Bay designer knits his way up fashion ladder</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6187</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NELSON Mandela Bay master knitwear designer Laduma Ngxokolo is going from strength to strength with his range of Xhosa-inspired men&#8217;s knitwear.]]></description>
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<title>Denton ordered to stop work on buildings</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6186</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NELSON Mandela Bay property magnate Ken Denton has been ordered by the Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (Phra) to cease renovations of the historic Donkin Row houses because he does not have permission to do so.]]></description>
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<title>Cosatu cuts ties with ANC in Bay </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6185</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LABOUR federation Cosatu has cut ties with the ANC leadership in Nelson Mandela Bay until an appeal lodged with provincial party bosses regarding the legitimacy of the newly elected ANC executive is dealt with.
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<title>East Cape kids clean up at US olympiad </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6184</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TWO pupils from the Eastern Cape shone at the recent International Sustainable World Energy Engineering Environment Project Olympiad (I-Sweeep) held in Houston, Texas.]]></description>
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<title>Rhodes joins campaign against rhino poaching</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6183</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE fight to save Eastern Cape rhinos from poachers stepped up a gear at Rhodes University this week when students and staff rallied to highlight their plight]]></description>
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<title>Motorists under threat in protest </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6182</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PANDEMONIUM broke out in Timothy Valley in Port Elizabeth yesterday when hundreds of residents embarked on a massive housing protest.]]></description>
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<title> Importance of African languages underlined </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6181</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SOUTH Africa&#8217;s democracy is at a crossroads and language, which is at the heart of real transition and liberation, is not on the national agenda, warns political analyst and social commentator Professor Somadoda Fikeni.
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<title>Despair as teacher crisis deepens</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6180</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE deepening teacher-shortage crisis at Eastern Cape schools has resulted in many struggling to play catch- up while Bhisho remains mum about the future of temporary teachers.]]></description>
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<title>DA lays charges against Cosatu</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6175</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DA national spokesman Mmusi Maimane laid charges against Cosatu on Wednesday (16/05/2012) after a protest by the party turned violent in Johannesburg.]]></description>
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<title>Clegg calls for Eastern Cape stories to be told</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6172</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SOUTH African music legend Johnny Clegg, the face of government&#8217;s new cultural heritage strategy, says &#8220;finding the hidden story behind&#8221; is the key to unwrapping the Eastern Cape&#8217;s tapestry of riches.


Clegg was responding to a question during his presentation to media at Tourism Indaba 2012 in Durban, yesterday.


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<title>New tourism route has experts gasping in awe</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6171</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Tide turns in Aids war</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6165</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SOUTH Africa is turning the tide in the fight against HIV/Aids, with the rate of mother-to- child transmission dropping an average 20% for the first time in 10 years &#8211; meaning that the infection of about 60000 babies a year is being prevented.]]></description>
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<title>More ECape pupils going on to pass matric &amp;#8211; study</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6164</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TEACHERS&#8217; improved understanding and delivery of the curriculum may be behind the massive increase in the number of Eastern Cape pupils who went on to pass matric last year.]]></description>
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<title>Pooch earns his stripes with Seaview tiger cubs</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6163</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WHILE most other dogs of his kind are busy chasing sheep, a Port Elizabeth pooch has struck up an unlikely friendship &#8211; with tiger cubs.]]></description>
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<title>Phelophepa health care on the right track</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6162</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[YOUNG and old waited patiently at the train station in Swartkops, Port Elizabeth, yesterday but none of them were going on a trip.
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<title>SA&amp;#8217;s professionals want to stay</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6161</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE majority of South African professionals want to stay in the country and make it work, despite rising concerns about healthcare, crime and education. ]]></description>
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<title>Greening the Wild Coast</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6160</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A YOUNG couple have spurned convention, bright lights and big salaries to settle on the Wild Coast, where they are helping a village community forge a sustainable future.]]></description>
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<title> Students close college over bursary funds</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6159</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[STUDYING at all the Port Elizabeth College campuses came to a standstill yesterday as students continued their protest against the non-payment of National Students Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) bursary money.]]></description>
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<title>Politics, red tape  hamper business</title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6157</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE message has been sent loud and clear by business in South Africa &#8211; inefficient electricity supply and billing, poor roads and traffic lights, red tape and the volatile political climate are adding undue pressure to the ability to make money and compete.]]></description>
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<title>Twelve Hawks police in court in connection with murder charges</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6141</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twelve police officers appeared on murder and other charges in the Bellville Regional Court on Tuesday (15/05/2012).
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<title>Two injured by hurled rocks as police try control Cosatu anti-protesters</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6137</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At least two DA supporters were injured when rocks were thrown when they marched  down Jorissen Street in Braamfontein in Johannesburg on Tuesday (15/05/2012).]]></description>
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<title>People divided on constitutional changes: survey</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6136</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People are divided on whether it is time to change the Constitution, according to survey results released on Tuesday (15/02/2012).
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<title>Missing couple 'told to go'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6127</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Uitenhage couple who disappeared without a trace more than a month ago were told to &#8220;leave and not come back&#8221; and so they did &#8211; leaving family and friends fearing for their safety.]]></description>
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<title>Malema boasts of support, vows to lead ANC one day</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6126</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[JULIUS Malema, speaking publicly for the first time since his expulsion as ANC Youth League president, boasted proudly yesterday of the widespread support he still commanded.]]></description>
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<title>Clash between Finance, Health officials looms</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6125</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[RELATIONSHIPS between superintendents-general in the Eastern Cape departments of Health and Finance have reached &#8220;boiling point&#8221;, says Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana.]]></description>
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<title>Key witness suffers heart attack in box</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6124</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A KEY police witness suffered a suspected heart attack and collapsed yesterday while testifying in the Knysna Circuit Court trial of six men accused in South Africa&#8217;s biggest drug bust.]]></description>
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<title>Protests disrupt campuses</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6123</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ANGRY college students in Nelson Mandela Bay yesterday disrupted campuses in protest against the short payment of bursary funds from the National Students Financial Aid Scheme.]]></description>
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<title>Sanctor wins bid to have head appointed</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6122</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Sanctor Primary School in Port Elizabeth may soon have a permanent principal after a court order was granted in its favour for the district education department to hand over candidates&#8217; application forms for interviewing and short-listing to take place.]]></description>
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<title>East Cape doctors work without pay for months</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6121</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 08:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MANY provincial doctors in the Eastern Cape have not been paid &#8211; some for a month, some for three months.]]></description>
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<title>Construction of R2-bn 'city' within city mal begins in August, amid oppositionl</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6120</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 08:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DEVELOPERS of the unprecedented multibillion-rand &#8220;city within a city&#8221; development planned for Nelson Mandela Bay&#8217;s western suburbs, Bay West City, hope to start construction on the project as soon as August.]]></description>
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<title>DA targets rising price of food </title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6119</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 08:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE blame for rising food prices not only rests with increasing petrol and electricity costs but also with consumers, the DA said yesterday]]></description>
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<title>New health fraud shock</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6088</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PUBLIC health officials have been linked in a confidential report to a new web of fraud and corruption amounting to R200-million in the embattled Eastern Cape Health Department.]]></description>
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<title>No sacred ground in church leadership war </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6089</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FORGET hymnbooks and bibles, some worshippers arrived at a Port Elizabeth church yesterday morning with knobkerries and guns]]></description>
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<title>Metro on soccer spending spree</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/6087</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is on a soccer spending spree, with a pending R20-million deal to bring Maritzburg United to the city permanently adding to the recent pledge of R30-million to co-host next year&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon).]]></description>
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