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The SA National Editors Forum was consulting editors and lawyers on Wednesday about the media’s exclusion from former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s rape hearing. Reporters were barred from the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, when Zuma was charged with rape. They were also not allowed immediate access to the docket.
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Despite its numerous sad revelations, Anne Schuster’s <i>Foolish Delusions</i>, is an absorbing read and a fine, multi-faceted achievement, writes Shirley Kossick.
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/ 7 December 2005
Saddam Hussein refused to attend his own trial in Baghdad on Wednesday morning after declaring he had been mistreated by an ”unjust court”, a court official said. The former Iraqi dictator was today talking to his defence lawyers about whether to return to the hearing.
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In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness. A fitting name for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace.
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/ 7 December 2005
Eritrea has ordered the expulsion of United States, Canadian, Russian and other European staff of the United Nations peacekeeping mission that monitors the tense border with neighbouring Ethiopia, United Nations officials said on Wednesday. In a letter sent to the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the staff were told that they have 10 days to leave the Horn of Africa nation.
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Table Mountain’s beloved, squat silhouette dominates every aspect of South Africa’s Mother City. But its reputation for sunset spectaculars and blooming biodiversity has been tarnished by a spate of muggings that has sent jitters through visitors and tourism authorities ahead of the busy Christmas season.
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Hamlet’s father runs a club — not a kingdom — and the ”sweet prince” drunkenly raps a version of his famous ”To be or not to be” soliloquy in a modern take on one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays by a group of teenagers. Brainstorming ideas for a project promoting non-violence, Chicago students chose a work in which almost all the main characters are dead by the time the curtain falls.
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An exercise treadmill that produces enough electricity to power a television set, radio and telephone has been developed at Singapore’s Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Electrical engineering students and exercise buddies Ng Bing Rong (23) Lee Beng Chuan (24) and Neo Boon Kiat (25) said the idea struck when they saw an old treadmill stored at the school.
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Senior health officers from South Africa and Mozambique will sign an agreement formalising the treatment of Mozambicans in health facilities along South Africa’s borders, it was announced on Wednesday. The initiative was part of the health department’s efforts to address Mozambican’s use of South African resources in those rural and underdeveloped areas.
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A R250-million casino and entertainment development was officially opened in Bloemfontein on Tuesday night. ”The complex represents the largest-ever private sector investment in the Free State’s leisure industry,” Free State premier Beatrice Marshoff said at the opening of the Windmill Casino and Entertainment Centre.