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/ 8 November 2006
Here’s an idea that could break the polarisation around the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) — indeed, a mechanism for the broadcaster to get out the corner into which it has painted itself over the blacklisting saga. To take a leaf from the New Partnership for Africa’s Development book, how about a peer-review system for African state-owned broadcasters, the SABC included?
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/ 8 November 2006
South Africans should bury the past before the past buries them, Jordanian Christian missionary Dr Bahjat Batarseh told mourners at the funeral in George of apartheid-era president PW Botha on Wednesday. In a lengthy sermon, he called on South Africans not to abuse the nation but to be one family together.
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/ 8 November 2006
The smell of petrol lingering around the Blaauwpan Dam, east of Johannesburg, might remain for days while a layer of fuel on the dam’s surface is causing "catastrophic" environmental hazards, according to conservationists. More than a million litres of aviation fuel is said to have leaked from OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday.
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/ 8 November 2006
Environmentalists on Wednesday hailed Democratic victories in United States congressional elections as a possible harbinger of change in the global-warming policies of the world’s top polluters. But they said there was little chance the power shift would alter US President George Bush’s opposition to binding caps on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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/ 8 November 2006
Israeli police were on Wednesday placed on alert for possible Palestinian attacks after militant groups called for a resumption of suicide bombings inside the Jewish state, a police spokesperson said. ”Our forces have been placed on an advance state of alert across Israeli territory following events in the Gaza Strip,” saud Micky Rosenfeld.
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/ 8 November 2006
Ernie Els has confirmed that he will defend his Alfred Dunhill Championship title at the Leopard Creek Country Club near Malelane next month. The South African will return to Leopard Creek as one of the biggest stars in the December 7 to 10 tournament, which is played on South Africa’s number-one-ranked course.
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/ 8 November 2006
Oral and anal sex in private between consenting heterosexual adults would be legalised under Singapore’s first major penal code amendments in 22 years, the government said on Wednesday. Singapore said it had conducted a comprehensive review of sexual offences in the penal code, which was enacted in 1871.
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/ 8 November 2006
On Saturday, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) will celebrate a decade of what it calls improved relations with South African workers and employers. Nerine Kahn, director of the CCMA, calls the organisation a ”worldwide model of success” in terms of what has been achieved since its initial inception.
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/ 8 November 2006
The government of Sierra Leone is faced with the challenge of stigma attached to HIV/Aids, which is derailing its efforts to supply ARVs.
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/ 8 November 2006
At least eight people, including three children, were swept away and drowned in southern Somalia early on Wednesday as a river burst its banks following torrential downpours, elders said. Several dozen people were unaccounted for in villages along the Juba River in Somalia’s Gedo region, they said.