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(AFP) – South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma won a tight fought vote to become the new head of the African Union Commission, the first woman to hold the post, African leaders said. She beat the incumbent, Jean Ping of Gabon, in a closely fought election over several rounds of voting. “Now we have the African Union chair Madame Zuma, who will ...

South Africa’s newly-launched Online Fingerprint Verification System is expected to deal a significant blow to acts of fraud and corruption which have cheated banks of millions of Rands, says Home Affairs (Interior) Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma. Speaking at the launch of the system here Tuesday, she was confident that the country’s “first ever and historic Online Fingerprint Verification System” would ...