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...lonely figure who lacks Zuma's common touch, Mbeki has proved to be an astute policy architect, but ultimately lost out in what many say essentially boils down to a bruising popularity contest between the two leaders. Mbeki fired Zuma, his then deputy, in 2005 amid a corruption scandal over shady arms procurement deals. But the President's political star has waned since last December, when a party leadership conference removed him as ANC leader and replaced him with Zuma...
Dunster’s roast was at the center of a small scandal last May when a group of students stole the remains of the butchered goats and impaled them on an Eliot House gate...
...scandal has also spread beyond the mainland. On Sep. 18, Hong Kong's government ordered a recall of all products made by Yili, one of China's largest dairy producers, after melamine was found in nine of the company's products. There have been no reports of any sickness among Hong Kong babies caused by those products. But the local Center for Food Safety said only two glasses of the tainted Yili milk per day could be enough to cause health problems in young children...
...This is not the first safety scandal related to Chinese milk. In 2004, at least 13 babies died of malnutrition in Anhui province after unscrupulous producers sold milk with no nutritional value. Melamine, a nitrogen-rich compound used in plastics and fertilizers, has been used to make milk that has been watered down appear to have more protein than it actually does. The chemical was also found in Chinese pet food exported to the U.S. that was blamed for the deaths from kidney failure of thousands of cats and dogs last year. In July 2007, China executed the former head...
...China's central government has taken dramatic steps to mollify public anger in the latest tainted-food scandal. On Sep. 18, the government sacked the mayor of Shijiazhuang after allegations that the city government had covered up reports of the contamination. Shijiazhuang is the headquarters of Sanlu, a Chinese dairy giant partly owned by a New Zealand company. Sanlu, the first company to be found selling melamine-tainted milk, has been at the center of the current scandal. The government has also arrested dozens of producers for selling melamine-tainted milk to dairy companies...