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/ 26 February 2006
It took two weeks for the news of the brutal murder of a young Khayelitsha lesbian, Zoliswa Nkonyana, to filter from the streets to the media. The original police investigation appears to have been sluggish. According to the <i>Sunday Times</i>, the single witness had only been contacted after a journalist alerted police to her existence.
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/ 26 February 2006
So the prospect of running Liberty through one of the toughest periods in the history of the life industry did not prove sufficiently appealing to Myles Ruck, who recently resigned as CEO, followed by his second-in-command Ian Kirk. Ruck, who headed up Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank before moving to Liberty Life in 2003, has undoubtedly accumulated a large nest egg.
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/ 26 February 2006
”We are sorry to hear about your mother’s ordeal in the Mail & Guardian (‘What are you doing to protect us, Mr Nqakula?’, February 10). Although we agree with your statement that ”crime is everywhere and affecting everyone” we restate our commitment to creating conditions of safety and security in Khayelitsha, and everywhere else,” writes Trevor Bloem.
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/ 26 February 2006
The activists who were insulted and threatened outside the court where Zuma appeared on on rape charges last week have already received permission to protest when the case resumes. The Mail & Guardian‘s Ferial Haffajee spoke to one of the organisers.
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/ 26 February 2006
BP has been given the green light to make the largest investment by an overseas company in China. The Observer has learnt that in recent days Beijing has agreed to allow BP to enter into a joint venture with Sinopec, the foreign-listed arm of China Petroleum Chemical Corporation, which is China’s biggest oil producer and refiner.
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/ 25 February 2006
Flossie Page, one of the oldest Americans on record, is dead at the age of 112. Page, who lived on a farm in Kansas since 1950, died on Wednesday of pneumonia at a local hospital. The Gerontology Research Group said she was the sixth-oldest person in the United States and 11th-oldest in the world.
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/ 25 February 2006
Russian poet Gennady Aigi, who was often considered a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 71, news agencies reported on Friday. His poems, written in the indigenous language of the Chuvashia region, were translated into scores of other languages.
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/ 25 February 2006
Sheryl Crow underwent surgery for breast cancer earlier this week and the prognosis for a full recovery is excellent, the singer’s publicist reported. Crow had the surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday and is recovering without complications, Dave Tomberlin, her publicist, said on Friday.
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/ 25 February 2006
A five-storey building undergoing renovations collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 45, the army said. The building housed a garment-making outlet and street-level shops. Police said many workers were inside the building at the time of the collapse but had no exact tally.
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/ 25 February 2006
Uganda’s private Monitor Group media company complained on Saturday that its website and radio station are being jammed to prevent the independent release of partial results from this week’s elections. The firm said it was warned by Ugandan authorities to stop compiling and issuing returns from the country’s multiparty polls.