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/ 13 November 2006
Former African National Congress chief whip and fraud convict Tony Yengeni
arrived late at Malmesbury prison due to car trouble, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday. Accompanied by two vehicles, Yengeni, who was out on weekend parole, arrived more than an hour late — a breach of the code of conduct for prisoners.
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/ 13 November 2006
Justine Henin-Hardenne won her first WTA Championships title on Sunday, beating Amelie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-3 a day after clinching the season-ending number one ranking for the second time. The Belgian won when Mauresmo double-faulted on match point — her fourth double-fault of the day.
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/ 13 November 2006
Google has provoked the wrath of Iran’s notoriously suspicious authorities by appearing to question the country’s sovereignty over the province of Azerbaijan in an entry on its Google Video website. In a move tailor-made to wound Iranian patriotic pride and arouse a blizzard of protest, the Azeri provincial capital, Tabriz, is located ”in southern Azerbaijan, currently in the territory of Iran”.
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/ 13 November 2006
The newly emboldened Democrats stepped up pressure on the Bush administration for a change of course in Iraq on Sunday, with two leading members of the party calling for a phased withdrawal of United States troops to begin in four to six months.
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/ 13 November 2006
South African musician Jabu Khanyile died in the Johannesburg Hospital on Sunday morning. He had been undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer and he had diabetes. He played with different bands for a decade before joining Bayete, first as a drummer and then as the band’s lead vocalist.
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/ 13 November 2006
We may be at a green tipping point — but not everyone’s got the memo yet. The following products are so ungreen that they deserve the title "eco-nasties". Air "freshener" is a stupid idea, and this one, called "Baby after bath", smells like a box of perfumed nappy sacks. But let’s not worry about the perfume, even though, according to the label, it "may cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment".
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/ 13 November 2006
Of course the word going around when the death of former president PW Botha was announced was: “How could they tell anyway?” The invincible old crocodile had been lounging around at his place in the Wilderness virtually unseen by human eyes, except for his youngish new wife, who popped up from time to time to say that he was not only fit and well but had healthy sexual appetites to boot. She was around to prove it.
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/ 13 November 2006
I’m late. Very late. The taxi drivers are on strike and blockading the M1. I’ve been granted a coveted interview with Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni. He is stickler for time and I’m getting ready for a tongue-lashing. But the gods are smiling on me and Mboweni is sympathetic with me and mad at the taxis instead. The authorities, he says, should not allow taxi drivers to hold the country to ransom.
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/ 13 November 2006
The United Nations says that international aid work is one of the world’s most hazardous professions, in which humanitarian workers are constantly threatened with — or victims of — kidnappings, harassment, detention and deadly violence. A UN study points out that hundreds of aid workers and UN humanitarian personnel continue to face risks in some of the world’s major trouble spots
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/ 13 November 2006
This week, a man described by the trial judge as ambitious, far-sighted and brazen — if not positively aggressive — in pursuit of his financial interests found that our legal system may grind slowly, but it sure grinds finely. The Supreme Court of Appeal handed down a judgement that in its fine attention to detail exposed Schabir Shaik, not only as a ruthless crook, but also as the person who may have destroyed the political ambitions of Jacob Zuma.